son_of_tigers t1_j9u2bm5 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 3:49 PM

Reply to comment by SaintLouisduHaHa in Almost 40% of domestic tasks could be done by robots ‘within decade’ | Artificial intelligence (AI) by Gari_305

and does it slowly so it doesn't get in my way or make too much noise? that's a feature

WilliamMorris420 t1_j9vjcim wrote on February 24, 2023 at 9:28 PM

My robot vac is so quiet that it can hoover in the middle of the night and nobody can hear it. All it needs, is its bin emptying about once a week and to be moved from upstairs to downstairs. Eventually I'll get around to getting one with a mopping feature and have one for upstairs and one for downstairs. But as the house gets hovered twice a day it's always immaculate. A Shark cleaner can't compete, as it would just never get used as much.

jejcicodjntbyifid3 t1_j9vkge3 wrote on February 24, 2023 at 9:35 PM

Mine is not that quiet what's yours? Mines one of the WiFi Roomba vacuum models but it is quite loud, and on hardwood

Usually I just schedule it for when I leave which sure beats me regularly vacuuming myself. My biggest annoyance is how hungry it is for cables, tearing down anything that it's attached to...

WilliamMorris420 t1_j9vrk5m wrote on February 24, 2023 at 10:22 PM

Ecovacs Deebot but its mainly on carpet. The main problem with it, is that it's dumb and just goes around a room randomly. So one area gets cleaned five times and an other only gets done once. It's a few years old and was pretty cheap for the time.

jejcicodjntbyifid3 t1_j9wn2la wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:15 AM

Oh yeah those random ones take forever and depending on the configuration it might never end up hitting places you want

WilliamMorris420 t1_j9xim8w wrote on February 25, 2023 at 7:17 AM

To be fair the carpet is spotless. With the newer models having intelligent mapping. Which is an other reason for wanting to get an other robot. But it's hard to justify whilst the current one is still working.

jejcicodjntbyifid3 t1_j9yhspi wrote on February 25, 2023 at 2:27 PM

I hear ya, and these things are kinda obsolete pretty quickly, and they're so new, waiting a few years will come out with much better

No_Section2505 t1_j9we0rj wrote on February 25, 2023 at 1:05 AM

My friend just got one of these. However, she has a fairly small house, like we do (I mean 2500 sq ft so not that small but not huge).

Unfortunately, the little vacuum and it's container "lives" on the side of the wall in her living room. It's an eye sore. Looks like more clutter. That's not such a great invention for cleaning 🤷🏻‍♀️