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I think they sold the story that they would become more than just a robot vacuum company and be a lots of kinds of robots company, and we're valued on that. In
by iancmceachern 3y ago
I think they sold the story that they would become more than just a robot vacuum company and be a lots of kinds of robots company, and we're valued on that. In the end the robot vacuum industry just isn't big enough to justify all they sold to investors.
- duxup 3y agoThe roomba vacuum was a great product but there's nothing about that device that made me thing they would naturally just be able to make other kinds of robots (and just didn't for a while...). When I think of things I would want a robot to do the proven roomba form factor and tech just doesn't make sense for any of those cases.
- lmm 3y agoYou'd think the tech would be useful for any kind of navigating-a-fixed-environment robot - I can think of self-driving warehouse carts, home laundry robots (where the brand might help), maybe lawnmowers.
- adgjlsfhk1 3y agolawnmowers sure, but laundry is at least a decade from being doable by a consumer robot. manipulating fabric is the type of thing robots are pretty far away from being able to do well (for both hardware and software reasons)
- 8organicbits 3y ago> navigating-a-fixed-environment robot Roomba has been struggling to develop that. A lawnmower with the same navigation challenges as a Roomba vacuum is terrifying.