Newslink: A sonar-guided smart robot vac? It's just Phase I of the invasion plan.
Trifo, a home robotics and AI company with offices in Santa Clara, Beijing, and Shenzhen, is announcing $11 million in new funding for an ambitious plan it hopes will finally crack the home robotics conundrum. Phase I hinges on the appeal of an inexpensive robot vacuum cleaner that one publicist recently told me would be a Roomba killer, referring to iRobot's best-in-class line of automated vacuums.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-sonar-guided-smart-robot-vac-its-just-phase-i-of-the-invasion-plan/