Connectr

Engadget wrote about the Looj, we told you about the ConnectR, and now the folks at Roomba Review seem to have captured iRobot prematurely updating their website with the two products. The iRobot page, now long gone, described the ConnectR as a "virtual visiting robot", making it sound more like a telepresence robot. The Looj was described as capable of cleaning 'an 80-foot section of gutter in just 10 minutes' of standard 'K-style, aluminum, copper, metal or vinyl gutters.'

Yeah, we were a little pissed about the iRobot Looj, but it's only because we expected more innovation from iRobot. Today, we may have found the name and brief description of the second robot that iRobot is due to debut at Digital Life: the iRobot Connectr. The company filed a trademark for Connectr a week ago on Sep 5 for "robots for video and audio monitoring, surveillance, and communication". It sounds like a spy robot for military or police use but it could be a telepresence robot too, a Spykee of sorts?