The Future is Here with the Electrolux Trilobite Vacuum Cleaner
Ever thought that an autonomous robot that is at the same a time vacuum cleaner is an impossible idea? Obviously, you have been mistaken. Your thoughts have been proven wrong with Electrolux Trilobite vacuum cleaner.
The vacuum cleaner called the Electrolux Trilobite is a quantum leap in vacuum technology that came quite early. Its namesake, the prehistoric Trilobite, used to go about the ocean floor scouring for food and cleaning its path along the way. In a way, the Electrolux Trilobite vacuum cleaner works the same… and with intelligence.
Trilobite Vacuum Cleaners Are Winning the Battle
This Electrolux robotic vacuum cleaner has single-handedly defeated its other competitors through its use of ultrasound technology. The technology has made the Electrolux Trilobite the first of its kind to be able to go about in plotted courses like a submarine. Others of its kind just go forward and alters course only when it bumps against something like a wall.
The Electrolux Trilobite vacuum cleaner works like this: it sends out a sound on ultra-high frequency on all directions. Like a submarine’s sonar system, the sound bounces back to the sub’s receiver when it hits against something so that the computer can generate information about a contact like distance, etc.
Similarly, the sounds that come back to the Trilobite’s sensors are analyzed by its onboard computer and stored into its memory as a landscape reading. This is another spot where the Electrolux Trilobite vacuum cleaner has won over its competitors. Other robotic cleaners do not have the capability to store data in its memory. The Trilobite, on the other hand, remembers this data which it eventually uses later in a cleaning assignment.
The Trilobite is not exactly passive, however. It continually sends out ultrahigh frequency sounds as it operates. This means that if someone places a new object in the room as the Trilobite is cleaning, the Trilobite will still detect it and will map a new course to get around the obstacle.
Ultrasound is not the only technology incorporated Electrolux Trilobite vacuum cleaner, however, because the little cleaner is also equipped with infrared sensors. It uses these to find out if there is a rise or drop in elevation ahead. If the data received shows that there is a drop or rise of at least 4 inches, the Trilobite will avoid this area.
So if you’re worried about your Trilobite falling off stairs and destroying itself, worry not. Besides you can use magnetic strips to create boundaries for the Trilobite if you don’t want to take chances.
Aside from its Normal mode of operation, the Trilobite also operates in two other modes: Quick and Spot. As you could infer from its name, the Quick Mode is quick cleaning in which the Electrolux Trilobite vacuum cleaner moves around in random patterns in a room for about 20 minutes. The Spot mode, on the other hand, is used when you want to concentrate your Trilobite’s abilities on a single area measuring about 3 feet square or 1 meter square.
The Trilobite has a built-in artificial intelligence which allows it calculate and analyze any problems that it might encounter. Most of us would be concerned what will happen if this gadget encounters a jammed brushroll when none of us is around (the Trilobite can be left to work on its own). However, this Electrolux robotic vacuum cleaner can figure out what to do in such a predicament: it simply reverses the motion of its brush until the obstruction falls off, and then continues with what it is doing.
The Electrolux Trilobite vacuum cleaner is powered by 2 nickel-metal hydride batteries. Only one battery provides power during operation, actually, while the other is a backup. This amazing little cleaner is intelligent enough to know that, when the last battery’s power becomes less than 50%, it has to retire and recharge for about 2 hours. It even remembers when it stopped cleaning so that it can resume its work when it is fully charged.
The Trilobite is equipped with a suspension bumper to cushion impacts in the event that it miscalculates and fails to avoid an obstacle. However, it moves too slow to damage itself since it has a maximum speed of only 1.3 or 0.4 meters feet per second.