Xiaomi just released a Roomba competitor at a fraction of the price

Xiaomi just added another home appliance to its growing line-up of smart home gadgets.

This time, it's a Roomba-like robotic vacuum cleaner, called the Mi Robot Vacuum. Like others on the market, the disc-like gadget promises to slide around the house picking up dirt, but it comes with a set of impressively advanced sensing systems that could make it a lot better than the rest at detecting its surroundings.

One of the vacuum's 12 sensors is a laser distance sensor that is able to scan 360 degrees around it, 1,800 times per second. Read more...