Witty trilingual vacuum cleaning bot

A screen grab from the promotional video, with the theme
from 2001 Space Odyssey

Oh oh oh how quaint a robot vacuum cleaner, you know the ones you sometimes see in the junk mail catalogues or in the super stores? Well it looks like this one can speak three languages and has a few witty phrases up it's nozzle, wait it doesn't have a nozzle, anyway so far it can say "Long time no see" and "Hello" in Japanese, Chinese and English, what no Spanish, French, German or Russian, you can just imagine. May be it says more too..




For a cleaning robot called cocorobo from Sharp Electronics, do we need something that may be taking over the household while we are away? Having parties with the toaster and that internet fridge that never quite got connected spending it's days passed out.

Maybe we do need this, well Sharp reckons it wants to make over 4,000 of these per month!

Here is the video from Sharp

Associated Press at Yahoo has the official low down