The woman was sleeping on the floor of her home when the robotic cleaner ingested her hair leaving her in agony Firefighters try to rescue a woman at her house in Changwon, southeast South Korea after her hair was sucked into a robot vacuum cleaner. She lost about 10 strands of hair but was not injured. When a South Korean woman invested in a robot vacuum cleaner, the idea was to leave her trustworthy gadget to do its work while she took a break from household chores. Instead, the 52-year-old resident of Changwon city ended up being the victim of what many believe is a peek into a dystopian future in which supposedly benign robots turn against their human masters. The woman, whose name is being withheld, was taking a nap on the floor at home when the vacuum cleaner locked on to her hair and sucked it up, apparently mistaking it for dust. The agony of having her hair entangled in the bowels of the contraption roused the woman from her slumber. Unable to free herself, she called the fire department with a “desperate rescue plea” and was separated from the robot’s clutches by paramedics, according to the South Korean newspaper the Kyunghyang Shinmun.

She escaped serious injury, although it is not known whether she has retained the autonomous cleaner’s services.hoover vacuum cleaner belt Robot vacuum cleaners have grown in popularity in recent years, with US firm iRobot’s circular Roomba selling well over 10 million units in the 12 years since its debut in 2002.dust vacuum cleaner hire Panasonic recently unveiled Rulo, a triangular rival to Roomba that the Japanese firm says is more adept at sucking up dust from corners.diy vacuum record cleaner The wheeled gadgets are equipped with sensors that enable them to steer clear of obstacles, avoid tumbling down stairs, and detect dust and other debris on the floor. They can also be programmed to seek out a recharging dock.

Korean Biz Wire pointed out, however, that people from cultures in which it’s commonplace to sit or nap on the floor - such as Japan and South Korea – may be more vulnerable to vacuum robot rage.A robot revolution has been the stuff of movie and literary fiction for a long time. Often times, depictions of that revolution are gory and end when the last humans are whipped out by the machine. In reality, the robot revolution is turning out to be a lot friendlier and pretty helpful, too. Imagine Rosie the robot maid in the 60s Hanna-Barbera cartoon “The Jetsons” working in your office. The multi-surface ECOVACS Deebot D63S is a robot as benign as they come, whose only objective is to keep your floors clean. The Deebot D63S is essentially an intelligent vacuum cleaner with four cleaning modes to tackle the different surface of your home. The Deebot D63S can be controlled from the LCD panel on the unit or a remote control and can be scheduled to automatically start cleaning your floors as soon as you leave your office or home.

The vacuum starts cleaning once it decouples itself from the charging station. The robot then proceeds to clean your hardwood, carpet, and ceramic floor at only 60 decibels, which is the same level of noise as a normal conversation at three feet. A specially designed agitator brush with a double helix bristle pattern lift dust and dirt from bare-floors and carpet while the vacuum places the dirt into the dustbin and filter. The Deebot cleans the various surfaces with equal efficiency using its four cleaning modes While the Deebot D63S is cleaning, it uses 10 forward-facing anti-collision sensors to detect and avoid all of the objects in your house or office. This includes three anti-drop sensors so the Deebot D63S doesn’t go hurling down the stairs as well as a propriety dust detecting technology which allows it to identify different type of dirt. Even the dustbin of the Deebot D63S has been designed with a purpose. The bin is specially treated to avoid bacterial growth along with three layers of filtration to ensure the dust remains in the receptacle.

In addition to its family of automated vacuum cleaners, ECOVACS also has a window cleaning robot, an air cleaning robot for your car, and a family robot that brings all of your connected devices together for entertainment and home security, to get your house ready for the smart home revolution. Robotic cleaning technology has made dramatic improvements, but that doesn’t mean they will be replacing cleaning services for the foreseeable future. The act of cleaning the space you live and work in is more complicated than you might think, so the best you can hope for now is a robot that does floors — and maybe windows. Robot house cleaning photo via shutterstock Stay Connected with Us! Roomba was just the beginning. If some of the new products we’ve spotted on the CES show floor this week are any indication, robots could be handling all your annoying household chores within a few short years. Here’s a few examples of the crazy house-cleaning technology we can’t wait to bring home.

Winbot 8: The window cleaning robot This crazy gadget is basically a Roomba for your windows. It features a gravity defying design along with smart sensors that can remember which part of the window is already clean. It also knows when it’s reached an edge so it can start to back up. The Winbot 8 sports a 600mAh battery along with a back-up power pack, and once’s it’s done you can quickly grab it thanks to a built in handle. Laundroid: The laundry folding robot From the outside this robot looks like a regular set of dresser drawers, but inside it’s packed with some pretty impressive technology. Just throw your dirty laundry in the bottom and the Laundroid will clean it and fold it. It can even sort your clean clothes between family members once you’ve programmed in which items belong to who. Laundroid was developed by Panasonic with help from a few other Japanese firms. It won’t actually launch until at least 2017, though the company actually demoed a working model last year.