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This, minus the kids. As much as I hate vaccuuming I'd love to have a roomba, but the hassle of roomba proofing the house is way too great. I live in a rather f
by da_murvel 8y ago
This, minus the kids. As much as I hate vaccuuming I'd love to have a roomba, but the hassle of roomba proofing the house is way too great. I live in a rather farmlike environment so the dirt in my house can range from the tiniest dust particles to anything the cats will drag inside. I would not like to have the roomba smearing around parts of a dead bird all over, I also have rather high doorsteps and I don't feel like having those roomba ramps all over my house. So at the moment, the obstacles of having a roomba are much greater than just wipping out the good old vaccuum cleaner and use 45 minutes of that day to clean on my own.
- Theodores 8y agoIt sounds like you need a different grade of Roomba, one that avoids really nasty things and can gracefully fall all the way down stairs to go from the top to the bottom of the house. A fair amount of machine learning is needed if a Roomba is able to do things like identify 'nuggets' left by pets, 'cat sick', mystery yellow liquids, slugs by patio doors and beheaded shrews. We as humans have no problems identifying such horrors so long as the lights are on, but for a Roomba things are not so easy. A version of a Roomba needs to positively look for such unsavouries and report back via the app that the house is clear. This is not that far off what the other iRobot robots do - the military ones - so hang in there, one day there will be a Roomba for you.
- tomc1985 8y agoSure there are plenty of other ways to identify a turd without ML...