I have a couple roombas from that era. If I sit and watch them, their path planning makes no sense. But if I just put them on a schedule to clean once a day, and don’t think about them beyond emptying their bin, I have continuously clean floors. Which, for me, is all I care about.
Not GP, but I use a Roborock S8 MaxV Ultra, which was the top of the line model earlier this year. I also just set it to run at night when I’m not paying attention to it. It’s… fine, I guess.
But if there is anything at all on your floor that will get stuck in its rollers, it will get stuck on it. Like 100% of the time. I’ve seen everything. Charge cables, towels, kids toys, any small pieces of fabric, anything you can think of. It has a camera and is supposed to avoid all these things, but it straight up never works. I have a nightly routine where I clear everything I can from the floors to make room for it, and it manages to find the one thing I didn’t see. And looking at its history it always ends up getting stuck in the first 5 minutes which means the whole clean is a bust.
I would wager my overall success rate (nights where it does its whole job and doesn’t get stuck) is maybe 70%. Just good enough that it’s “worth it” but it’s so frustrating that it can’t simply steer around this stuff, especially when it’s advertised as being able to.
I could rant about the other stuff I hate about it, but suffice to say I still feel that good cleaning robots need another 5-10 years before I could fully recommend them.
iirc, they basically avoided fancy routing algos and just let the robot haphazardly wander the space (and determined that the room was clean after a set number of activations for each bumper sensor)
rogerrogerr|1 year ago
I have a couple roombas from that era. If I sit and watch them, their path planning makes no sense. But if I just put them on a schedule to clean once a day, and don’t think about them beyond emptying their bin, I have continuously clean floors. Which, for me, is all I care about.
ninkendo|1 year ago
But if there is anything at all on your floor that will get stuck in its rollers, it will get stuck on it. Like 100% of the time. I’ve seen everything. Charge cables, towels, kids toys, any small pieces of fabric, anything you can think of. It has a camera and is supposed to avoid all these things, but it straight up never works. I have a nightly routine where I clear everything I can from the floors to make room for it, and it manages to find the one thing I didn’t see. And looking at its history it always ends up getting stuck in the first 5 minutes which means the whole clean is a bust.
I would wager my overall success rate (nights where it does its whole job and doesn’t get stuck) is maybe 70%. Just good enough that it’s “worth it” but it’s so frustrating that it can’t simply steer around this stuff, especially when it’s advertised as being able to.
I could rant about the other stuff I hate about it, but suffice to say I still feel that good cleaning robots need another 5-10 years before I could fully recommend them.
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