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hey guys I'm here at Samsung's booth at CES taking a look at the new robot vacuums that the Korean conglomerate has in store for 2016 there are a couple of new additions to the power bot family this year both of them smart models with Wi-Fi built-in and an app you can use to control them the first is the power bot essential plus that's gonna be an $800 model that offers some basic functionality with its smart app you can start and schedule it from your phone but the real interesting one is the $1200 power bot turbo that's a lot to spend on a robot vacuum but the cool feature it brings to the table is a mapping feature it'll actually send its mapping info of your home to the phone so you'll be able to see the floor plan that the robot vacuum has mapped out and then point at a specific room and tell the robot vacuum to clean that room if you tap on three rooms it'll clean those three rooms in that order it's a cool way to sort of put you on the same page as your robot vacuum so it knows exactly what you want to clean the new smart robot vacuums also have the nice remote feature that lets you point at the floor of the laser and send the robot vacuum scurrying after it like a kind of sluggish cat kind of a neat way to pointed a messy spot on your carpet and send the robot vacuum there for more on these smart robot vacuums check out our coverage at cnet.com for seen that I'm right Chris