Only the fancy pants ones. The cheap ones are like blind bumblebees that clean by accident while running headlong into every wall. I dunno if a shop would risk using expensive ones when underpaying a cleaner is cheaper. There’s a message here but I’m too tired to see it. I wonder if you actually did the math, how expensive would hiring a cleaning service match up to buying one of the fancy robot vacuums?
An off-brand one i found on residential waste 6 years ago (broken lidar motor, 5 quid in spare parts) has internal maps.
They really don’t have to be fancy pants for this in this year of our lord 2026 where disposable vapes have the chips to run a webserver.
Roombas have also had “beacons” before they had any competition. You could set two of them up to block it from leaving.
I also have a hard time imagining that if a Roomba store chose to use its bots in the store, they would go with the cheapest model instead of showing off one of their top models.
They can store maps so that they don’t go out of a designated area.
Only the fancy pants ones. The cheap ones are like blind bumblebees that clean by accident while running headlong into every wall. I dunno if a shop would risk using expensive ones when underpaying a cleaner is cheaper. There’s a message here but I’m too tired to see it. I wonder if you actually did the math, how expensive would hiring a cleaning service match up to buying one of the fancy robot vacuums?
An off-brand one i found on residential waste 6 years ago (broken lidar motor, 5 quid in spare parts) has internal maps. They really don’t have to be fancy pants for this in this year of our lord 2026 where disposable vapes have the chips to run a webserver.
Roombas have also had “beacons” before they had any competition. You could set two of them up to block it from leaving.
I also have a hard time imagining that if a Roomba store chose to use its bots in the store, they would go with the cheapest model instead of showing off one of their top models.
Maybe the ones around here are just garbage then. The first one I bought for $120 AUD 4 years ago didn’t have a map