Home LivingAppliancesVacuum CleanersSamsung’s made a brilliant robot vacuum for visually impaired peopleSamsung makes its robovacs even more useful for people with visual impairmentsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Home LivingAppliancesVacuum CleanersSamsung’s made a brilliant robot vacuum for visually impaired peopleSamsung makes its robovacs even more useful for people with visual impairmentsWhen you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
Samsung makes its robovacs even more useful for people with visual impairments
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works.
(Image credit: Samsung)
(Image credit: Samsung)
If you’re abled like me, devices such as thebest robot vacuumsandbest robot mopsare fun and handy things to have. But if you have visual impairments or mobility issues, they’re much more than just high-tech toys. That’s whySamsunghas created a new version of its Bespoke Jet Bot AI for people with visual impairments.
Let’s get the bad news out of the way first: this is a Korea-only product for now. And that’s a shame, because there’s a lot of good ideas built into this bot.
Why make a special robot vacuum for visually impaired people?
According toSamMobile, Samsung decided to make the product because some 90% of visually impaired people in Korea have low vision with residual vision, which means that they need items to be in certain colours with high contrast in order to see them properly. Factor in the fact that for many people with visual impairments cleaning is one of the more difficult tasks to handle and you’ve got a pretty good reason to make a robot vacuum that looks very different to every other model on the market.
And as it turns out, it works pretty well for robot vacuum cleaners too.
I hope this isn’t just a one-off, because one of the great things about smart home tech is the freedom it can deliver – whether that’ssmart doorbellsmaking it easy for people with mobility issues to greet callers,smart speakersmaking homes more voice-controlled or robot vacuums that take care of the chores without posing a trip hazard. What’s just a fun device or feature to me can be hugely valuable to many other people, and to companies too: with an estimated 1.3 billion visually impaired peopleout there, that’s a lot of potential buyers.
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