iRobot Verro Pool Cleaning Robot |
First the robots came to clean your carpets. Then they started washing the floors of your kitchen. Then they invaded the sanctity of your garage. Now they want to clean your pool.
Just in time for the summer the futuristic sounding iRobot Corporation has introduced the iRobot Verro Pool Cleaning Robot to make your dog days that much easier to get through. These people are the same ones that brought us the Roomba, so they probably know what they’re doing putting a semi-intelligent electronic device into the water with you.
After unpacking the robot you toss it into the pool where its vacuum starts to clean all that gunk left behind by you, like human hair, as well as the stuff dropped off by the wind that collects at the bottom of your pool.
iRobot claims that their two models, the Verro 300 ($799) and 600 ($1,199), will clean any pool from the floor to the waterline in 60 to 90 minutes and it will help circulate chemicals better and maintain a better water temperature. The filtration system gets all the little things up to two microns in size. Compared to the size of the average human hair (70 microns), the Verro might as well be a sanitizing droid.
The 300 model works better on concrete pools, having a hydro-jet that can blast the dirt up from the bottom of the pool. The 600 model works better for fiberglass, vinyl and tile pools and has PVA brushes that scrub the sides as it swims around.
Dear iRobot Corp CEO: can you make a robot that cleans the barbeque next?
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Human hair is variable in thickness. In general finer hair is less then 15 to 50 microns and thicker hair is 50 to 150 microns. Light colored hair in general is finer and black hair thicker. Straight hair is thin curly hair thicker. So if you are to average human hair width you would need to factor hair color, where on the body it came from (downey hair less than 10um, curly androgenous hair that is dark greater than 100um).
So 50 um seems to be a reasonable guess for an average.
I have a scooba and so far it works well in our kitchen. We run it about every other day as we leave the house and it has only missed small areas.