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I had a roomba, but the combination of constant brush maintenance, hair cutting and emptying made it a pain in the ass. Not to mention how it totally ate wires

• aedron 8y ago
  They make sense within a pretty narrow use case: You have a largish room with hard floor, which is usually kept uncluttered. You don't have pets. We use it for a large kitchen and it's okay. Run it before leaving the house and the floor is clean when you get back. Who cares how long it takes or that it is noisy or whatever. It does like 75% as good as a human would and that's good enough most of the time. But it's true that a part of the time you save is spent on maintenance instead.
  • schiffern 8y ago
    >part of the time you save is spent on maintenance instead. There's a quote I always remember while taking 30 seconds to clean the dishwasher: "The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders." -- Isaac Asimov, 1964