Since air cleaners and vacuum cleaners both use motors, fans and filters, getting into this area shouldn't be hard for us, "says Yan. In late 2002, when the US firm iRobot and the Swedish company Electrolux started selling their smart vacuum cleaners--Roomba and Trilobite--in Taiwan, Yan snapped up two Roombas for research.
「很早就聽說有人在研究智慧型吸塵器，由於空氣清淨機和吸塵器都會用到馬達、風扇、過濾網等零件，跨入這塊領域應該不難，」燕成祥說，2002 年底美國 iRobot 公司和瑞典 Electrolux 公司不約而同在台灣推出智慧型吸塵器「倫巴」和「三葉蟲」，他立刻買了兩台倫巴回來研究。