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Damn robot vacuum designs (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/rant@lemmy.sdf.org
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Why are all robot vacuums the same? They all have these tall as fuck charging stands.

I don't want to dedicate several square feet of wall space for a fucking charger and dust bin. What i do have, though, is a fucking couch with tons of free space around it. Instead of building the dust bin to go above the fucking robot, why hasn't ANYONE released one that is wide so it can go under a fucking couch or bed?

The fucking dock could be U shaped and the bin you remove to empty it would slide out forward instead of lifting up.

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[–] [S] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

The thing vacuums under there, why would the dock need to be bigger than the robot?

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  • [–] 3 points 11 months ago

    You cannot design products to retail like this. That is the problem. The design must be sold to everyone to make it competitively viable at large scale for contract manufacturing. Making many sizes is something that is untenable and will fail as a commercial venture. It causes overburden and poor turnover rates in the supply distribution and retail chains. The product does not have sufficient margins to support this type of system. The competition that already exists has set the price expectations. No one will pay the required pricing needed to support this business model. You would be paying 2-3 times as much per unit in order for retailers and distributors to justify the enormous investment and management of the overburden risk.

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