Hardwood floors + large hairy dog + robo vacuum = less dog hair floating about.
I seriously don't know how we kept our sanity before having one of these. We really notice it if we don't run it some days.
I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)
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Re: I am mesmerized by our new robotic vacuum (2019)
#122I totally agree with this! My spouse was making fun of me for staring at our Neato for almost its whole cleaning session. Watching the 2D LiDAR work while the robot does the path planning is absolutely fascinating to me for a machine that is less than $400.
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#123I’m immediately put off by the second ‘graphs being fully devoted to publicly putting his girlfriend in her place? We learn it’s „impulsive“ for her to make spending decisions (for him it would have been „decisive“, probably, given the good opportunity and how quick he is to think on his feet). He even moans about being „incapable of being upset“, as if it would be entirely normal, nay expected , to be upset about on…
You're way too sensitive and act as if we should conduct ourselves like formal robots. Sounds like a really boring world, loosen up a bit.
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#124Earlier quoted context omitted.
"I might be mildly inconvenienced so it's 100% necessary for me to support a company that abuses its workers, sorry guys :/"
Can you help me understand how you know the other companies are better? There's no denying that Amazon is known for being not great to workers, especially warehouse staff who are hired as contractors. But long before Amazon existed I did temp factory and warehouse work for a couple of summers. I promise you that also varied from miserable to criminal. I have no reason to think a random vendor is better than Amazon he…
The arguments for ways other companies are better work both in and out of favor for them. Conversely, centralizing it (Amazon becomes a monopoly) also works both ways: It's possible worker conditions can be better or worse compared to the average standard, but with greater number of them in a single go.
Thus the counter-argument, for me at least, stands out, which is less volatility from a decentralized market, however, if a centralized market would turn out to have better employee conditions, then this reduced volatility would in turn work against other companies as an argument, and so we're back at square one.
History tells us that monopolies tend to ...treat their employees badly? I don't know and I think it depends on the company and market it serves, but my gut-feeling says yes and so, to me, less volatility sounds like the sanest gut-decision I can make.
It's up to each and everyone for themselves to decide, I guess.
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#125This article is good, but it misses out a few more essential features about the device which make it a little bit more intelligent than they've discovered so far:
- It has infrared proximity sensors spread around the bumper which allow it to slow down before hitting a wall or other large flat surface, avoid it entirely (for example to turn around and shoot off in another direction), or do quite precise edge cleaning without relying on the bumper. This works best on walls or skirting boards.
- The base station has an infrared beacon which the robot uses to find id. Furthermore, the robot can judge whether it is on or off-axis relative to the base station (i.e. whether it is lined up straight or not). The robot doesn't just dive in from any angle: it tries to line up first.
- It has some level of stall detection for its motors: if the brushes or wheels get stuck on something, it will stop. The internet-connected versions of these vacuums will send out a notification when this happens.
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#126I do not trust Eufy brand anymore. We had a Eufy RoboVac and within its warranty period, battery went bust. When attached to its station, it gave some sound errors which is apparently tied to its battery. I contacted support several times, reminded their obligation for warranty period but they did nothing. They asked me to find a "certified technician" to get a report such that this malfunction was present when I mad…
I bought a Neato XV 21 something like 6 or 7 years ago. Still doing great, I've only changed the filters and battery pack once. we moved to a house a few months ago and it still manages to vacuum the entire upper floor (~800sqft) with 1.5 passes.
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#127This article is good, but it misses out a few more essential features about the device which make it a little bit more intelligent than they've discovered so far: - It has infrared proximity sensors spread around the bumper which allow it to slow down before hitting a wall or other large flat surface, avoid it entirely (for example to turn around and shoot off in another direction), or do quite precise edge cleaning…
Thanks the burning question I had was how it finds the base station again after roaming.
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#128I've had the Xiaomi one for a couple of years, the one with lidar. It's great. Used to love watching the app as the little guy gets to work and the map starts building realtime. It runs Ubuntu, you can root it. And even get spotify running on it. https://github.com/dgiese/dustcloud https://medium.com/@anxodio/how-to-get-spotify-working-on-yo...
> you can root it. And even get spotify running on it Some might ask why you'd want Spotify on your vacuum? I would have it play Dolly Parton's "(Working) 9 to 5" on loop whenever it's running. I feel like that would be hilarious forever. Other suggestions welcome.
I like the one where the guy made the vacuum scream every time it ran into something
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#129I can relate to the author's curiosity of how such a random movement ends up doing a near perfect clean in the given time. I have tried to understand how my basic Roomba works as well. One simple algorithm could be that it is simply storing the path it travels randomly like a criss-cross, zig-zag path and ends up filling a imaginary polygon with those zig-zag movement. That's probably the reason it does not get stuck doing the same part of a room again and again.
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#130We bought my aging mother-in-law an iRobot mopping robot a couple years ago. It still works great and has freed up 30min to an hour of time per day she spent cleaning up the floor (they're Korean and spend a great deal of time doing activities on the floor so floor cleanliness is very important).
More importantly, her legs and back aren't doing so well these days and it's eliminated a painful and difficult daily task for her. She loves it almost as much as a pet. Just set it up and forget it for the next hour and the floor is mopped! The biggest problem it has is getting hung-up on her grandkids toys.