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I have a robot vacuum, but I never use it.

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Because in order to get it to clean my house, I have to first clean my house.

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See, the problem is I have really disgusting roommates.

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They're my children and they just leave their clothes and their toys everywhere.

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And I also have pets. I recently had an elderly dog, she's gone now,

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but these pets, they also make messes that I don't trust the robot vacuum to handle properly.

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So the result is that I have a robot vacuum that I just never use because it's not smart enough.

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But Narwhal is sponsoring this video to show off their much better.

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And I'm not just saying that, flow vacuum. Unlike any vacuum I've ever had,

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it has the mopping thing. Like there's water tanks and all sorts of stuff.

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I'll show you in a second. But on top of that, well, let me just show you with photos.

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I use this thing once already, spoiler alert. And I made these little test piles of Lego

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to see if it would go through them. I thought it would avoid the big pile,

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but go right through the small like minefield. But it actually avoided both.

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And not only that, I did the classic baby sock test cause that's the thing I'm always pulling out

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of the roller on my other vacuum. And it left that baby sock there.

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Anything that allows me to be lazier, I will pay for.

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So let's take a tour of this thing. These are the brushes. I think they clip onto the vacuum.

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We'll see that in a second. It comes with some literature, a quick start guide,

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a user guide, some safety stuff, very important.

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And a power cable for this to plug into the wall.

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It has to be said, this dock is a bit of a presence. It's pretty big.

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It has handles on the side, but that's because inside it has containers.

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I think you put clean water in one and dirty water comes out the other one.

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I guess we're not done the unboxing. There's stuff in here, especially formulated floor cleaner.

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One of these, unlike my old obsolete vacuum,

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it has a dustbin on board that I like pull off and dump out in the garbage can.

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This one returns to the dock and the dustbin gets emptied into a central bag

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that you only have to empty every sometimes. And actually it came with two of those bags.

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That's where it goes.

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Now that there's some water in here, let me get you excited about this thing's damn mopping feature.

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I'm not kidding, I'm excited. This is the vacuum itself. You can see it doesn't have a little like hat on top

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for cameras and sensors and stuff. It's nice and flat integrated.

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It can go under stuff nicely. And giant mop.

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Finishing the assembly, it comes with these little flicky beans.

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So the reason this is so cool and different is that it doesn't just go into its space station,

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get the mop wet, and then drag that sucker all over your house.

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Instead, it actually has onboard water tanks, a clean one and a dirty one.

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It warms that water and sprays it continuously

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on the mop. So you ever like go to a hotel

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and they have that little pancake conveyor belt or you put toast on the thing

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and you watch the toast go by the heating element and then it flops down.

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It's kind of like that. This mop is rotating this way.

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When it's exposed like this, it's cleaning your floor with fresh, clean, warmed water,

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113 degrees Fahrenheit I think. And then when it's rotating over here,

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what's happening is it's getting sprayed and then going under this like scraper

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that's taking off all the dirty water and putting into a dirty water tank.

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So you get clean mop in contact with the floor all the time

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with clean water. And then you don't even have to empty those water tanks.

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It goes back to its station and that water goes in here.

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And you can see how dirty it is with this clear bucket. And that's not all.

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When it goes back to the base station after mopping, the base station actually cleans the mop even better.

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Three different temperatures. So it takes oil off and everything, 176 degrees Fahrenheit, keeping that mop fresh.

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That's how Linus says it. All right, let's take a little tour of this area while we're here.

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I recognize this, this is the brush. This is the part that I'm always pulling out

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on my other vacuum and getting a steak knife and cutting hair out of.

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But they say that won't be a problem with this because of the way the brush is designed

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and the way the air flows. And there's these side brush things.

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They call it a dual flow, tangle-free system.

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I'm skeptical. We'll take the word for it for now. I bet you have to cut a little bit of hair

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out of there sometimes, right? It's a mop, not a miracle worker.

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Look at this clearance. These puppies pop up and the thing just coasts

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to get over like door thresholds up to 1.6 inches high.

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Yeah, I could get over my sliding glass door and just go and vacuum my balcony if I wanted to.

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And these aren't the only things that go up and down. When it goes onto a rug or carpet,

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the mop will raise so that it doesn't get your carpet wet.

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And this brush cover, this thing goes down

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so it's like clapping onto the carpet to make better suction and just brush

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like right against that sucker. Why am I so into this?

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I guess it's to show you the top too. Like it does have buttons on the top.

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It's basically a rocker. There is a power button.

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Ooh, there are so many peels on this thing. There is a home button.

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Oh, okay, that comes off without any levers or anything.

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There's this peel. Oh, good thing we got that out of there. And underneath the cover,

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we have an explanation of all those parts that I pulled out earlier that I didn't know what they were.

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So this is the dust bin, which you can manually pull out. And there you can see this is the insert bin

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that I had an extra for. And this is the filter that I had an extra for.

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Nice to have extras. I'm trying not to like anthropomorphize this thing too much,

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but kind of looks like a face on the front. And that's because it has these two cameras,

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which are key for its object detection thing. It has this AI chip in it that allows it to recognize

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over 200 normal household objects like that baby sock

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and go around in the way that it can easily go around in the way that it can look at those objects

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is with these two cameras. They say it gives a human-like vision,

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like stereoscopic vision, so it can see how far away it is from stuff.

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So when it sees something like a baby sock that it doesn't want to run over or poo,

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it can get close to it, but not hit it. And actually in the case of poo,

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it doesn't even get close. It stays 15 centimeters away, which is probably a good call.

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I actually have had a robot vacuum poo smearing craptastrophe before.

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I caught it early, but Jesus. All right, I'm gonna show you all the cool options you get

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when you press play on this thing. That requires me to show you the app a little bit.

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So you select your device. I know I'm coming from like ancient technology here,

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but this map is so much better. In the previous vacuum that I had,

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you had to like create zones yourself. Like you had to draw on the map.

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This thing, it mapped the place and then it knows what it's looking at.

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It even drew little couches and crap on here and it does its own labels like,

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oh, this is a living room. This is a master bedroom. And then those are zones.

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So then you can just tell it to do those. It's just way more automatic.

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And when you go to actually run, you get the option of vacuum, mop,

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vacuum and mop, vacuum then mop.

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I have vacuumed before, so I wanna just check out the mopping action.

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So let's do it. Hit that, it is a play button. There you go.

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The whole house will be cleaned if no zone is designated. Detected heavily soiled areas.

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You're still in there. Detect long neglected areas.

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And check this out, you even recognize this like little places

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where you have speaker wire or chargers or cables somewhere in your house.

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That's one of the objects that recognizes so as to not get them caught in the brush

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and drag them all over the house, which has happened to me before.

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Look who's here.

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I'm gonna set it to vacuum and mop at the same time and just watch it work.

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Look how it moves it around. I think it did that because it's trying to get right in the corner,

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which is one of the things that says it can do. It moves the mop out of the way and those little brushes that we installed earlier

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since they reach outside of the circumference of the circle, they can actually reach the little corners like that.

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Zang. Oh, look at the mop moving in the air. That's great. Look at it edging.

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I was curious to know how wet the snail trail is, like what I step on that with my socks or whatever.

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And the answer is, yeah, it's damp to the touch, but even now after just rubbing my hand like dry now,

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so good to go, good to walk on. But can it navigate our wire race track?

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Imagine it just goes home. Nope.

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Whoa, that was quick. Made a fool of me.

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So thanks to Narwhal for sponsoring this video and showing off to their Flow Vacuum,

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which has an MSRP of $1,500 or has a launch price of $1,100,

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or you can pay $100 more and get this version where the base station gets plumbed into the wall.

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So you have to mess with the water a lot less. That is only available in select regions though.