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Sorry, if it doesn't have LIDAR, I don't want it.

• Symmetry 12y ago
  An onboard LIDAR would make it quite a bit more expensive. I think if I were to play with one of these I would find a friend with an unused Kinect and use that for the sensing.
  • iandanforth 12y ago
    What do you think about the Neato? Many robot hobbyists will buy one just to get its scanning range finder and it's in the same price range as a roomba.
    • Animats 12y ago
      Now that would be more interesting. The Roomba is sense-deprived for a robot. It doesn't know where it is, and navigates by bumping into stuff. That's kind of lame. Hobbyists had those in the 1980s. Grey Walters' "turtles" did that in the late 1940s. Computing has made some progress since then. By now, a hobbyist robot should have at least 2D SLAM, able to map its surroundings and navigate using the map.