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"Unless you're a five-year-old kid, there's nothing fun about dirt. It builds up everywhere and nobody really wants to clean it up. iRobot knows this. That's why it keeps spitting out fresh new robots to do all the dirt-ridden jobs we struggle to avoid.\nThe Massachusetts-based company started with robot vacuums for our dirty floors and moved onto robotic mops and even a tiny Scooba that will roll behind the toilet so you don't have to.  It has a gutter cleaner, the Looj, that will fling muck out of the gutter and a collection of pool cleaners that will quietly and intelligently clean every square inch of your backyard swimming hole.\n\nAt CES 2013 in Las Vegas, the company will unveil a brand new pool cleaner, the iRobot Mirra 530. This is a more powerful (and more expensive) robot than the company's original pool cleaner, the Verro 300 HydroJet. That model, which lists for approximately $700, could clean an in-ground pool in 60-90 minutes,\nThe new Mirra (list $1,299.99 \u2014 compare it against what you pay your pool boy) has a far sleeker design, with huge wheels that hug the below-the-water-line surfaces of the pool. It uses a floating power cord, but otherwise utilizes the pool's own water to clean the pool. In fact, the Mirra filters the water as it cleans. At 70 gallons per minute, it's comparable to the Dolphin DX 5 pool cleaner.\nLike other iRobot home-cleaner automatons, the Mirra 530 sizes up the pool and is fully aware of its environment. It makes multiple passes over the floor and walls of the pool, always avoiding entangling itself with its own power cord. A scrubbing brush cleans the surfaces while filters capture debris, according to a release, \"as tiny as two microns.\"\nCheck out the video above for a look at the Mirra, which arrives in retail stores this spring, in action.\niRobot also announced that its gutter-cleaning robot, the Looj 330, will be available internationally starting this spring.\n\n[Images Courtesy of iRobot]\n"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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