The store that sells them is not dumb enough to use them

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• PaintedSnail@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  A Roomba in a public space is a trip hazard.

  A quick sweep is a way to keep busy when there are no customers.

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• kevinsky@feddit.nl ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I don’t get the hate, I swear by these. I have one that vacuums and mops.

  I think it’s about expectation management.

  These by no means replace actual cleaning. Not in the least because they only handle your floor and there’s more shit that needs cleaning. Besides if I put my back into it I clean the whole apartment in a fraction of the time this machine only does the floors.

  However, this machine runs when i’m not home, so It could work at it for 8 hours and that would still be fine. Moreso, to do that it only needs a fraction of my time.

  The reality is that I have this machine running way more than I myself can be arsed to manually maintain the floors and the net result is that I have cleaner feeling home with almost no time invested. Considering I have about 3 hours of actual me time on an average working day this is a big deal.

  Some poeple see them as a symptom of wealth, but honestly this machine is no different to a dishwasher. You could realisticly wash your dishes in half an hour instead of the three hours the machine takes. But that machine only needs to be packed with the dirty dishes and fed a tablet, and occasionally you need to top up the salt and and rinse aid. Whatever time it needs to actually clean your dishes isn’t really an obstacle because you’re using it on something else.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I LOVE mine, the Eufy version.

    Protip. If you have a pet, DO NOT run it without checking the floor first or use auto scheduling. Ask me how I know.

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Agreed. I’ve had two. Used then for over 10 years. I get furniture specifically that clear the floor enough so the bot gets underneath everything.

    Its something with the continuous work that just doesn’t let dust build up which helps so much.

    It also forces me to not litter the floors. So it helps me tidy up.

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• obvs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I’ve had a Roomba, and I’ve manually cleaned a floor.

  There’s nothing dumb about not having to vacuum and mop.

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  • Godort@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    The best argument I heard for getting one of these was an appeal to laziness.

    Either the robot vacuum cleans the floor, or it simply doesn’t happen unless it gets bad enough to justify the time spent doing it. It’s better to live in a house with perpetually clean floors rather than one where the floors get bad enough until you’re forced to take action.

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    • Clent@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Roombas aren’t designed for commercial spaces.

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    • Omgpwnies@lemmy.world ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It takes me a fraction of the time to sweep/vacuum/mop the floor compared to my robot, but the difference is the robot takes a fraction of my time since I can start it and let it run with the odd bit of maintenance and sometimes rescuing it when it gets trapped or sucked up something it shouldn’t.

      It’s not a panacea, I still have to ensure that the area is fully clean except for the sweeping and mopping portion. However, as long as I keep up on that part, I can let the robot run overnight and have clean floors in the morning.

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• allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  As others have said they aren’t a full replacement for a thorough human vacuum/sweep and mop. But it takes care of the daily maintenance to the point where I only need to do the full work up every three or four weeks rather than every weekend.

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  • Monte_Crisco@thelemmy.club ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Also, first, this store doesn’t seem self-contained, so eventually the robot will start sweeping/vacuuming the entire mall. And second, it would be a hazard to have this thing cleaning when there are a bunch of people walking buy and into the store. People typically don’t set their roombas to start cleaning when they have a bunch of guests over.

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    • myotheraccount@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      First issue is solved by modern vaccuum robots: they have a map of the place they clean, and you can tell them which area to stay in. Anyway, the rest of the points still stand :)

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• sangeteria@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They’d probably not want u to steal the merchandise roaming the floor

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• nullify3112@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  That is a very old pic. The logo has been different for a while, they don’t really sell those robots anymore, they went bankrupt and got bought by a Chinese company. iRobot created the vacuum robot and failed at staying in the game.

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• magnetosphere@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  “You’re just a wage slave. A rag on a stick is good enough for you.”

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• dbtng@eviltoast.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  My cats love my vacuum robot!

  They are not magic. You gotta watch the dang things. Mine ate a dental pick the other day, so I pulled it out and sent him on his way. He started choking again, and I turned him off. When I got around to inspecting it, it was another dental pick, just jammed farther up his craw.

  And they are tiny. The cruft builds up fast. I’ve got long hair and 2 cats. I have to empty the dustbin after a single use, and I have to pull the roller and cut out the hair every 3 uses.

  But they get under shit that I would never clean. My place is way less dusty due to the robot going under stuff and cleaning it all.

  And they also clean when you don’t want to. That’s really nice. I think I’ll send mine on a mission now…

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• Fizz@lemmy.nz ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  it’d get stolen in 5mins.

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  • kkj@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Yeah, kidnapping a human is a whole thing. A Roomba can barely fight back and weighs a lot less.

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• Zannsolo@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I had one before my dog, wife and kids came along was so nice.

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• Surp@lemmy.world ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I have one and it’s amazing

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• CkrnkFrnchMn@lemmy.ca ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  D’hoe…

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• unitedwithme@lemmy.today ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Kärcher RCV5 ftw and I’m in the US. It’s a German company, and when I saw how good their industrial automated stuff was at work, i was sold! No, I swear I don’t work for them. But of all the automated tech I’ve watched at shows and demos, their stuff was beyond the competition.

  For anyone privacy-focused, I also went this route as all communication is done to German servers within the app, not US based, so privacy is a lot better!

  www.kaercher.com/us/…/rcv-5-12696450.html

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  • Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Have you tried the window washer robot?

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    • unitedwithme@lemmy.today ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      No, I didn’t even realize they made a robot for that. I thought about a power washer and wet/dry vac next bc I would like a new vac for the cars.

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• Ioughttamow@fedia.io ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  If it ever reads your mind, then just badger it with conflicting scenarios until it kills itself

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