iRobot · working robot
Braava jet
A small, square mopping robot that sprays water and scrubs with a vibrating head, reading which disposable wet, damp or dry pad is fitted and ejecting it at the push of a button. It navigated with its bumper, wheel sensors and a gyro and covered up to about 200 sq ft per run.
- Price
- $200Cheaper than 95%
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
A discontinued machine from iRobot.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- Released
- 2016
Maker
iRobotCompany · founded 1990 · Bedford, Massachusetts, United StatesAmazon's US$1.7B takeover was abandoned in January 2024; Chapter 11 filed 14 December 2025
How it stacks up
Against other working & field robots that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Braava jet costs less than 95% of the 20 other working & field robots that publish a price. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, weight, speed, payload, joints, battery.
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. After a person attached a cleaning pad and pressed CLEAN, it automatically selected the appropriate mopping or sweeping routine.
- Hands
- Vibrating mopping head with wet, damp or dry disposable pads; the robot reads the pad type from cut patterns on the back
- Sensors & vision
- Bumper, wheel odometry and gyro
- Battery & power
- Removable lithium-ion battery with wall charger
- Other details
- Sprays water ahead of the pad; covers up to about 200 sq ft per run
Lineage
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- $200About $200 at launch, iRobot's cheapest robot at the time (IEEE Spectrum)
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- US$200 at launch
News
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- iRobot launches $200 Braava jet
IEEE Spectrum reviewed iRobot's small spray-mopping robot, its cheapest robot at the time.
IEEE Spectrum
Sources
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