Neato is always under my radar due to it’s low-cost hackable LIDAR that came with the XV-11. It came with a 360 degrees scanning LIDAR with 1 degree accuracy and 10Hz scanning speed. This is a entire website dedicated to getting the xv11 to run under ROS. They have recently launched the XV Signature series. It looks really nice with it’s all black casing but even better still is the fact that this new Neato has 50% more suction power with the same hardware and specification.

Honestly, i am not really concerned about the vacuuming but i am rooting for Neato to build better, faster and more efficient low-cost solutions to the navigation ability to this robot. Hopefully, this will be a general base one day where we can hack it to sweep, mop, fetch and cook at very affordable prices.