I have a 1956 Kirby and a teenage daughter. They're voice controlled.
LOL
It is smarter that the earlier robots (and also smarter than some of ones still on the market). It doesn’t just do a random walk and it does always know where it is and what shape the room is.
We have an older model Neeto, which we got precisely because it doesn't do a random walk, and uses the laser scanner to map the room. We hardly ever use it because of the following design problems:
- It gets stuck and confused among the forest of chair legs in the dining room, breakfast nook, and kitchen bar. Meaning, that, in order to run it, those surfaces have to be cleaned off and the chairs flipped up onto them, like we were a restaurant or something.
- It gets stuck on certain kinds of clutter such as the straps to a backpack or the strings from the venetian blinds on the french doors that go to our back porch (the strings reach the floor when the blinds are fully open).
- The "conning tower" scanner assembly atop the robot is exactly the correct height to get the robot stuck beneath certain pieces of furniture. The scanner allows it to attempt to travel under the furniture, but then it bumps its "head" and gets jammed there, like a
truck under the 11'8" bridge.
Have
any robot vacuums solved those problems yet?
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