Chances are you’ve heard of iRobot’s Roomba vacuum cleaning robots, thanks to some very effective (and highly catchy) commercials, but the Scooba remains a slightly more niche product. And I don’t quite get why. After all, it’s pretty easy to vacuum, but who wants to scrub their floors? If you hate breaking out the Swiffer as much as I do, iRobot is making it okay for you to get rid of the manual cleaning supplies forever, with its new Scooba 450 that cleans floors three time more effectively than previous models. I got a chance to see it in action before iRobot introduced the ‘bot at CES on Monday.

Physically, the Scooba 450 looks pretty similar to previous models (as well as to the Roomba series). The difference is in how it cleans. The Scooba 450 uses iRobot’s new three-cycle cleaning process, which makes it up to three…