iRobot Scooba (floor cleaning robot)

Scooba is an automated robotic floor washer produced by iRobot. It was released in limited numbers in December 2005 for the holiday season at $399.99 and is in the midst of a full production rollout in early 2006.

The Scooba uses a special non-bleach cleaning solution made by the Clorox Corporation that cleans the floors and prevents rust or skidding and has been nicknamed "Scooba juice." The robot preps the floor by vacuuming loose debris, squirts clean solution, scrubs the floor, and then sucks up the dirty solution leaving a nearly dry floor behind, and is safe to use on sealed hardwood floors and most other hard household surfaces. Scooba avoids rugs and stairs, and can clean about 200 square feet on a single tankload of solution. The Scooba is the second major commercial product made by iRobot, which popularized vacuum robots with the blockbuster Roomba.