New technologies are widely used in our daily life. While voice assistants have found their place on our smartphones or connected speakers, they are now investing in our home appliances. This is the case at Roomba, which in 2017 equipped its vacuum cleaners with voice control thanks to Alexa. 4 years later, Amazon Tools adds some strings to the arc of the robot vacuum cleaner.

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Right now, if you have a sound-activated Roomba vacuum, you can tell it with a simple touch when to start the big cleaning and when to stop it. “Dis, Alexa”, The Roomba now goes even further and promises to revolutionize your daily life, or at least make your job a lot easier.

Thanks to new skills developed by Roomba, for example, it’s now possible to ask your robot to do a quick cleanup around a piece of furniture. If You Drop Breadcrumbs During a Meal, Ask the Roomba for It “Clean around the table”, Rather practical when the area to be cleaned is small. All you need to do for this is that your device is connected to WiFi.

Simultaneous another device

When asked by Engadget, iRobot CEO Colin Angle says that it will also be possible to operate two devices one after the other. For example, you can say “Alexa, tell Roomba to clean my living room every Sunday at 4 a.m. and then play Brava”, He also specifies that Alexa will be able to use the home’s connected speaker to alert the occupants of the home that it is going into service.

The tool will also be able to know when the house is empty and thus choose the appropriate time to start cleaning one or more rooms. The system will use Alexa’s artificial intelligence-based intuition to work. The brand is also planning to develop a feature “do not disturb” Which will prevent the vacuum from starting at certain times of day. With the democratization of telecommunications, this can avoid some frustrations for users of Roomba devices, especially during phone calls or video conferences.

perfect partner

Beyond simple domestic help, Roomba’s ambition is to make its little robots perfect companions we can talk to “In a Natural and Sophisticated Way”, He hopes to make his devices smarter and therefore essential in this way.

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