# LrrK Kinematic Consumer Risk Bulletin **LRRK Watch / Open-Source Intelligence** — Signals across consumer systems that sense, move, and act in homes and yards. **Issue type.** Monthly filing. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Window | 1–31 May 2005 | | Collection cutoff | 31 May 2005 | | Platform | Quiet Systems | | Data label | Open-source intelligence // LRRK analytic product | | Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. | | Scope | Consumer kinematic electronics only (home, yard, companion, educational). | | Classes in frame | Robot vacuums / mop combos · robotic lawn mowers · window-cleaning robots · pool-cleaning robots · robot pets / companion animals · social / desk companions · educational / programmable kits · robotic litter boxes · security / home patrol robots · consumer robotic arms · elder-care / assistive companions · kitchen / food-prep robots · toy / entertainment robots · niche outdoor / garden robots · emerging general-purpose or humanoid home robots | | Spine | CPSC, Health Canada, EU RAPEX (2005 name), UK, manufacturer recall pages, named newsrooms, dockets. | | Color | Message boards, consumer forums, and Reddit — annotated context only. Never Fact without a reputable primary. | ## Executive read ### BLUF May’s consumer kinematic file is a class-opening path, not an injury path. iRobot and Clorox date, on 23 May at D: All Things Digital, the Scooba robotic floor washer — vacuum, scrub, and dry on sealed hard floors, with a Clorox solution — as the first wet-floor home robot in the opened company copy. Holiday inventory is future-tense. No official recall. No CPSC Roomba page. ### Key judgments 1. **[Assessment — High confidence]** The 23 May iRobot / Clorox newsroom, independently dated the same day by Engadget and the next day by New Atlas, is a company-and-named-newsroom primary for the first wet-floor home robot. It is filed as a control-path / class-opening signal, not as a safety file. 2. **[Assessment — High confidence]** This is not a recall, not a shipping-injury file, and not a regulator page. Limited holiday-season availability and larger first-quarter 2006 distribution are as the 23 May copy writes them — future tense, not a dated street count. 3. **[Assessment — High confidence]** No May CPSC Roomba, Scooba, robotic-mower, or companion-robot numbered page was located. Roomba (1.2 million units in the opened copy) remains the live dry-floor class. ### Analytic labels - **Fact** — verified reporting or primary record - **Assessment** — analytic judgment - **Inference** — reasoned but not directly observed - **Uncertainty** — unresolved information gap ### Source grades - **A1** — authoritative primary record / directly confirmed - **B1–B2** — generally reliable and corroborated - **C3** — useful but requires caution (typical for forums) --- ## 01. iRobot Scooba — first wet-floor home robot, dated company / newsroom (not a safety file) *Event / publication dates: 23 May 2005 (iRobot / Clorox newsroom; Engadget); 24 May 2005 (New Atlas; The Engineer)* **Product class.** Robot vacuums / mop combos **Verified record — [Fact — A1 / B1]** On 23 May 2005, at The Wall Street Journal’s “D: All Things Digital” conference in Carlsbad, Calif., iRobot dated a “sneak preview” of the iRobot Scooba Robotic Floor Washer. Official company wording: Scooba is “designed to vacuum, scrub and dry hard floors automatically,” “builds on technology advances from” Roomba, and “only uses fresh water and cleaning solution from a clean tank, so Scooba never spreads dirty water on the floor.” It “cleans wet spills in addition to dirt and grime” and “is safe for use on all sealed hard floor surfaces, including wood and tile.” The same page dates a partnership with The Clorox Company for “a specially engineered cleaning solution.” Roomba, in that copy, is “now available in 25 countries” with sales that “have surpassed 1.2 million units.” Availability, official wording: “A limited number of Scooba Robotic Floor Washers will be available in time for the 2005 holiday season, with larger distribution planned for first quarter of 2006.” A prototype “will be demonstrated live on stage Monday, May 23, at 2:10 p.m. PT.” Price is not stated. [iRobot / Clorox newsroom PDF, 23 May 2005](https://s204.q4cdn.com/178752512/files/doc_news/2005/05/1/IRobot-Unveils-Worlds-First-Floor-Washing-Robot-Clorox-Creates-Custom-Floor-Cleaning-Solution-for-iRobot-Scooba.pdf); [Clorox IR reprint, 23 May 2005](https://investors.thecloroxcompany.com/news/news-details/2005/IRobot-Unveils-Worlds-First-Floor-Washing-Robot-Clorox-Creates-Custom-Floor-Cleaning-Solution-for-iRobot-Scooba/default.aspx); [iRobot IR](https://investor.irobot.com/news-releases/news-release-details/irobot-unveils-worlds-first-robotic-floor-washer). Barb Dybwad (Engadget, 23 May) independently dated the intro, the vacuum-then-liquid-then-dry sequence, wood-floor language, and “limited supplies… this holiday season.” Price “isn’t set”; CEO Colin Angle “promised consumers ‘won’t get sticker shock.’” [Engadget, 23 May 2005](https://www.engadget.com/2005-05-23-roomba-gets-a-sidekick-scooba-makes-mopping-obsolete.html). New Atlas (24 May, Mike Hanlon) independently dated the sneak preview, the Clorox partnership, the 1.2 million Roomba figure, and the holiday / Q1 2006 inventory line. [New Atlas, 24 May 2005](https://newatlas.com/worlds-first-robotic-floor-washer-irobot-scooba/4065/). The Engineer (24 May) reprints the same holiday / Q1 2006 line. No CPSC, Health Canada, or RAPEX page. No injury or incident count is stated in the opened launch copy. This is a dated class opening, not a sold-through census. **Threat landscape.** A kinematic object that puts water and a named household chemistry on sealed hard floors and then drives itself. Physical harm is not alleged by a regulator. Class characteristics now in frame: liquid next to consumer electronics; a Clorox-branded solution as a consumable; holiday inventory still unpublished as a unit count. Trust / control change is the first mass-market wet-floor home robot on a company primary — continuity of the Roomba dry-floor class into a wet-floor class — not a laceration or fire path. **Forum / community notes.** - none found. **Intelligence assessment.** [Assessment — High confidence] The 23 May date, the Scooba name, vacuum / scrub / dry, clean-tank wording, Clorox partnership, 1.2 million Roomba figure, and holiday-limited / Q1 2006 larger-distribution language are as the opened company and named-newsroom pages write them. [Inference — Moderate confidence] A wet-floor SKU on a Roomba chassis is a new consumer chemistry-and-liquid path, even with no incident count. [Uncertainty] Street price, actual holiday unit count, and whether any Scooba is in a dwelling this month are unpublished in the 23–24 May copy. [Uncertainty] Cliff / stair behavior is not stated in the company release. **Opportunity.** A dated ship / in-stock notice that is not only holiday-future language, a price, a safety or chemistry SDS page, and any CPSC / RAPEX / Health Canada Scooba file (none found). **LRRK relevance.** Sense / Move / Act: wet-floor class opening (liquid + named chemistry + self-drive). Passport: first wet-floor home robot as a control-path SKU. Watch: actual holiday inventory and any official Scooba safety page. Not a recall file. **Confidence.** High on the 23 May company date, the first-wet-floor claim as written, the Clorox pairing, and the holiday / Q1 2006 future-tense inventory line. Moderate on whether any unit ships before year-end. Low on in-home inventory and on unpublished chemistry or electrical residual risk. --- ## Forward indicators 1. A dated Scooba ship / in-stock notice that is not only holiday-future language, with a price. 2. Any official iRobot Roomba or Scooba recall (none found through this cutoff). 3. Any CPSC / Health Canada / RAPEX robotic-mower blade, lift-sensor, or foot-access action. 4. Any educational-kit or toy-robot battery / fire / laceration file. 5. Any brand-named robotic-mower pediatric case. > **Collection integrity.** One signal graduated (23 May company / Clorox + named-newsroom twins). Filed as a control-path / class-opening item, **not** as a safety file. **Excluded:** Roomba Pink Ribbon leftover (April catalog); CPSC walk-behind vacuum pages; WowWee Robosapien restocks (not signals). No CPSC Roomba or Scooba page. No RAPEX robotic-mower weekly report. No named robotic-mower fatality. Forum empty. *LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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