The Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner from Evolution Robotics is designed exclusively for sweeping and mopping hard surface floors for you. Using dry and pre-moistened cleaning cloths, Mint picks up the dust, dirt and pet hair that constantly accumulate on floors. Mint’s compact design gets into tight spaces, under furniture and into other areas that are hard to reach with traditional mops and sweepers.
Evolution Robotics ‘Mint’ is a floor cleaning robot with mopping (wet) and sweeping (dry) modes. Robot moves around while cleaning in each mode, in mop mode the robot moves in a “fishbone” pattern covering every spot about 3 times. In sweep mode the robot moves in straight lines. Both modes are methodical.
The spots on the floor are thin orange, thick orange, thick coffee, thin coffee and ketchup. These spills were left there for 5 hours, and they were completely dry. During wet cleaning the robot picked up both thin spills, and most of the thick spots. Ketchup was way to hard to remove (even by hand afterwards). Everyday life spills (that are usually not very thick) would have been cleaned perfectly.
Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner is designed exclusively for sweeping and mopping hard surface floors. Using dry and pre-moistened cleaning cloths.
where it cleans so it doesn’t miss a spot
Guided by the NorthStar Navigation System, Mint methodically cleans open areas by moving back and forth in straight lines, working around furniture and rugs, and cleaning along baseboards.
Evolution Robotics, the maker of the Mint floor cleaner is a relatively small robot technology developer from south California. They provide a software development platform, visual pattern recognition systems and autonomous navigation technologies to those companies that wish to build their own utility robots. Mint, the automatic floor cleaning robot is the company’s only commercial product, mostly a demonstration of core technologies they provide.
Mint is easy to use. Simply attach your cleaning cloth of choice, choose sweep or mop and let Mint clean for you. Since Mint is not a vacuum, there are no bins to empty or filters to replace. So you can enjoy hassle-free clean floors every day.
Mint cleans hard surface floors by pushing a cloth around, but instead of running in a random pattern, it covers the floor in a systematic manner. When the cloth is dry, the robot works as a sweeper, while with wet cloth is more like a mopper. Due to the methodical cleaning style, it works only as much as needed, not a minute more. When done, Mint returns to the starting point.
Intelligent Navigation
The NorthStar Navigation System works like an indoor GPS that helps Mint keep track of where it has been and where it needs to go. Specifically, the NorthStar Cube projects a signal that Mint uses to determine its location. Then as Mint starts cleaning, it builds a map of the area as it goes, marking walls, obstacles and drop offs as it encounters them. After Mint finishes cleaning open areas and around obstacles, it performs a final edge cleaning along walls and furniture and then returns to where it started so you know right where to find it.
Mint can map and clean up to 800 square feet either in a large open space or by discovering adjacent rooms. In mop mode, the cleaning area is restricted to 250 square feet to optimize cleaning while the cleaning cloth is wet.
Sweeps & Mops
Mint’s dual modes let you easily maintain all your hard surface floors with one device. In Sweep mode, Mint uses a dry sweeping cloth to pick up dust bunnies, pet hair and grit from your floor. In Mop mode, Mint cleans with a pre-moistened cleaning cloth and a special back-and-forth mopping motion to pick up deeper dirt and grime. All it takes to switch modes is a fresh cleaning cloth and a press of a button.
Cleaning Cloths
Mint works with commonly available disposable cleaning cloths or with re-usable microfiber cloths. Mint’s specially designed microfiber cloths can be re-washed and re-used hundreds of times. Different cloths have been developed to optimize both sweeping and mopping. Flat white microfiber cloths are ideal for attracting dust and dirt while dry sweeping. Textured grey cloths hold water and help loosen and grab deeper grime when mopping. Mint comes with a starter pack of 1 mopping and 2 sweeping cloths.
What’s in the Box
Mint Automatic Floor Cleaner, NorthStar Navigation Cube with 2 C batteries, 2 dry sweeping microfiber cloths, 1 wet mopping microfiber cloth, power adapter, quick start guide, user manual. Backed by a 1 year warranty.
- Compact robot floor cleaner runs up to 3 hours on single charge using microfiber cloths or most brands of disposable cloths
- Guided by North Star Navigation System to methodically clean open areas, around furniture and rugs, and along room perimeter
- Whisper-quiet operation; turns itself off when finished
- Low maintenance with no bins to empty or filters to change
- Measures 9.6 inches wide by 8.5 inches deep by 3.1 inches high; 1-year warranty
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