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Go forth and mop
Created: 10/30/2006
Video description: CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos brought a Scooba from iRobot to its Domestic Research Labs (otherwise known as the snack room) to watch it suck up Diet Coke, eat pretzel crumbs, and take on the soda machine.

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