Coming from the famous iRobot company that made the equally clever Roomba automated vacuum cleaning robot, as well as the Mirra pool cleaner and Looj gutter cleaner, is the Braava Mopping Robot that promises to keep your kitchen and bathroom floors squeaky clean. And it’s not even that expensive come to think of it and weighing the amount of work you would spare yourself of. For the $200 it costs, the Braava Jet is a slow moving but just as thorough robot that knows how to move around sinks and toilets to ensure the most sanitary of states of your bathroom.
It also comes in one more model than just the classic one, the Braava 300 that can handle much larger surfaces, at the expense of losing the ability to damp sweep. However, it can run by itself and either mop or sweep for surfaces amounting to 350 and 1,000 square feet respectively.
Measuring 7 inches in length and 3.3 inches in height, the Braava Jet makes use of spray-jets and sweeper pads to clean the most varied and difficult to reach corners of your bathrooms, were you to attempt cleaning by yourself. And it was made to be the smartest it can get, with as little personal input from you necessary.
When setting it up for its task, all you need to do is attach the preferred pads – whether it’s mopping or sweeping. The Braava will then detect which pads you put in independently and begin its task once you press the clean button. The robot is programmed to spray and sweep twice onto the same surface for a thorough job when mopping while the sweeping is a preliminary task that will only be performed once. Alternatively, you can program an area for the robot to maintain its cleaning into.
The sensors that the bot is equipped with seem to be able to learn and map its surroundings as it goes for the subsequent laps around the kitchen or bathroom. Meanwhile, if you were concerned about the robot ending up just smudging the mess from one place throughout the whole room, it’s good to know that Braava was designed to continuously absorb the dirt it gathers inside, keeping the pads clean without risking making a bigger mess than before.
And because iRobot was thoughtful of how everything about the Braava works, finishing the job with this robot is as easy, stress-less and dirt-free as everything else. By pressing the eject button, you can simply drop the dirty pads into the trash.
The Braava is available online already, and you should start seeing it in retail stores starting April 1st.
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