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Wi-Fi-connected Roomba 980 maps a better route | Gizmag


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23 September 2015



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The Roomba 980 is the first of the line of hockey-puck shaped robotic vacuums to include an intelligent visual navigation that allows it to map out rooms and clean them with greater efficiency.




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