Hasta La Gadget!

Look out Roomba, MSI has some new robots that want to wipe the floor with you. Tucked into MSI’s Computex booth, alongside Windows 7 Tablets and overclocked Intel CPUs, MSI was demoing a robot floor cleaner that looks like it has an edge on iRobot‘s venerable Roomba. First of all, it will automatically go back to its docking station when it is done cleaning to recharge itself. Also, instead of blindly running into walls, the device uses ultrasound technology to avoid them. The M800 Smart Vacuum Robot is rated to last 110 minutes on a 4-hour charge.
 
The company is also releasing the R1300 Security Vacuum Robot, which comes motion detection and a wireless video camera that can stream video over the Internet.  (No word on whether this robot bad boy could be loaded with a Taser attachment.)

What’s more, MSI representatives to me that it has 8X the suction power as the Roomba, but of course we will need to get it into PC Labs for testing before we can know for sure just how much it sucks. 

MSI isn’t sure about pricing of either robot, or if they will definitely make it to U.S. floors, but it plans to ship the robots in Asia early next year. Until then, check out this video taken on the Computex Show floor.