Samsung Navibot

The Samsung Navibot is a robotic vacuum cleaner (robovac) originally released throughout Europe in March 2010, and then later ported to the rest of the world. Signature to the Navibot is its ‘visionary mapping system,’ which captures photos of your home, and then uses them to create an electronic map with an optimized cleaning path.

It retails in two models: SR8845 and SR8855. The advanced latter unit adds along touch-sensitive buttons, an on-board scheduler, and a pair of Virtual Guards, or boxes designed to create an infrared virtual fence. Both models can operate for 90 minutes via a 2-hour charge, feature anti-fall/anti-collision technology, and are intelligent enough to pick up where they left off in case the battery dies mid cleaning.