Evolution Robotics Assembles Powerhouse Team
to Bring Mint™ Automatic Floor Cleaner to
Market
Company Partners with Former Dirt Devil Leadership Team to Launch Mint
March 11, 2010 08:03 AM Eastern Time
CHICAGO--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--INTERNATIONAL HOME & HOUSEWARES – Evolution
Robotics, Inc., a leading robotics technology company, today announced that it has partnered with a team of former
top executives from Dirt Devil to help bring the recently announced Mint™ automatic floor cleaner to market. These
new partnerships, combined with Evolution Robotics’ strong financial backing and the company’s deep technological
expertise and prowess, puts the company in an excellent position to successfully introduce Mint to consumers later
this year.
Mint is a robotic floor cleaning appliance designed exclusively for hard surface floor cleaning. Mint automatically
dusts and wet mops hard surface floors using popular cleaning cloths, such as Swiffer® brand Dry and Wet Cloths®
and other similar products. Attendees of the 2010 International Home & Housewares show can see Mint firsthand
by visiting the Evolution Robotics booth at the show (#L11143).
Evolution Robotics’ dream team of sales and marketing experts and floor care veterans consists of Mike Merriman,
former President and CEO of Royal Appliance Mfg. Co., the former publicly held parent company of Dirt Devil,
Inc., who recently joined the company’s board of directors, and fellow former Royal executives, Rick Farone and
David Brickner, who specialize in bringing innovative, effective and quality new products to the consumer market.
“We’re honored to be working with an incredible team that has such an illustrious record of bringing advanced,
industry changing products to the consumer market,” said Dr. Paolo Pirjanian, CEO of Evolution Robotics. “With
the guidance of Mike Merriman and the efforts of Rick Farone, David Brickner and their team, we are well-
positioned and confident that we will be a serious new player in the floor care in