Irobot’s New Roomba Could Solve The Roller Mop’s Biggest Problem

The robovac automatically shields its mop truthful it tin cleanable carpets.

iRobot’s first roller mop-equipped robovac has a unsocial instrumentality to thief support your carpets dry. Announced this week, nan Roomba Max 705 Combo is an upgraded type of nan robovac iRobot launched successful April, offering a “first-of-its-kind” mop screen that it automatically deploys erstwhile cleaning carpets.

Unlike pinch mopping pads, galore robovacs pinch roller mops often can’t assistance up their mops to clear carpets, nor tin users — or nan robovac itself — easy region them. Robovacs for illustration nan Deebot X8 Pro Omni effort to debar getting your carpets bedewed by vacuuming them first pinch a barren mop aliases allowing you to group boundaries astir them.

It sounds for illustration nan Roomba Max 705 Combo will effort to hole nan carpet dilemma pinch its caller mop cover, though iRobot doesn’t stock really precisely it works, different than showing an image of what looks for illustration a integrative shield that extends astir nan bottommost of nan mop roller.

The Roomba Max 705 Combo tin besides widen its mop to scope corners and nan edges of walls. Like nan 705-series robot vacuum iRobot launched successful nan spring, nan Max 705 Combo features anti-tangle dual rubber brushes, lidar navigation, and nan expertise to debar toys, cords, and pet waste.

The Roomba Max 705 Combo besides comes paired pinch an AutoWash Dock that offers heated mop cleaning and drying for up to 75 days, on pinch auto-emptying and auto-refilling functions. This robovac doesn’t travel inexpensive astatine €1099 (~$1,292 USD). It’s besides only disposable successful Europe for now, but iRobot says it plans to motorboat nan instrumentality successful North America and Japan “later this year.”