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The manipulation is going to be near impossible at your price point. Remember for each articulation you'll need a motor unless you build a flywheel assembly. Th
by curt 16y ago
The manipulation is going to be near impossible at your price point. Remember for each articulation you'll need a motor unless you build a flywheel assembly. That adds to the price really quick.
The programming, if you're just doing it for a single defined bathroom isn't that hard. It's when you get into 'all' bathrooms that the complexity increases exponentially.
- SMrF 16y agoI would pay $5,000, perhaps more, to never clean my bathroom again and always have a clean bathroom. My budget is a little bigger for a hobby project. I figure $10,000 - $20,000 for me to prototype something, that's including failures, etc. over 2-3 years. I have no idea how much motors cost, but I'm getting the idea that they are pricey. Edit: if it's more than this it's not a deal breaker, I just have to rope someone else in, spread things out over more years or something more creative.
- curt 16y agoYou might be able to do it at that price for everything but the toilet. Instead of going big, the design I would use (after only thinking about it for 2-3 minutes) would be to mimic an insect. Go really small and have it be able to adhere to the surface and clean as it went (tub, glass, floor, etc). Use a laser/camera to analyze the surface. The key would be to keep the center of gravity as close to the wall as possible. On the large side, I would go with a pivoting telescopic arm with variable cleaning instruments. Use a counter weight to balance the robot.
- ph0rque 16y agoHow about a combination of the two? A telescopic arm positions its payload over the given cleaning target, and releases a small cleaning robot tethered on a string. The "spider" has the tech to minutely go over the surface of the target and clean it, while the arm has only the "macro" capabilities.
- SMrF 16y agoMaybe a few of these with a Roomba like strategy. Just walk around semi-randomly and clean as you go. Be able to identify non-cleanable surface like wall paper, etc. This would reduce the challenge to creating something that sticks to most surfaces and software plus laser/camera to identify surfaces. I've never seen a robot that just "sticks" to everything though...