I've had a Roomba, and I've manually cleaned a floor.

There's nothing dumb about not having to vacuum and mop.

“You’re just a wage slave. A rag on a stick is good enough for you.”

A Roomba in a public space is a trip hazard.

A quick sweep is a way to keep busy when there are no customers.

My cats love my vacuum robot!

They are not magic. You gotta watch the dang things. Mine ate a dental pick the other day, so I pulled it out and sent him on his way. He started choking again, and I turned him off. When I got around to inspecting it, it was another dental pick, just jammed farther up his craw.

And they are tiny. The cruft builds up fast. I've got long hair and 2 cats. I have to empty the dustbin after a single use, and I have to pull the roller and cut out the hair every 3 uses.

But they get under shit that I would never clean. My place is way less dusty due to the robot going under stuff and cleaning it all.

And they also clean when you don't want to. That's really nice. I think I'll send mine on a mission now...

As others have said they aren't a full replacement for a thorough human vacuum/sweep and mop. But it takes care of the daily maintenance to the point where I only need to do the full work up every three or four weeks rather than every weekend.

That is a very old pic. The logo has been different for a while, they don’t really sell those robots anymore, they went bankrupt and got bought by a Chinese company. iRobot created the vacuum robot and failed at staying in the game.

They'd probably not want u to steal the merchandise roaming the floor

it'd get stolen in 5mins.

If it ever reads your mind, then just badger it with conflicting scenarios until it kills itself

Kärcher RCV5 ftw and I'm in the US. It's a German company, and when I saw how good their industrial automated stuff was at work, i was sold! No, I swear I don't work for them. But of all the automated tech I've watched at shows and demos, their stuff was beyond the competition.

For anyone privacy-focused, I also went this route as all communication is done to German servers within the app, not US based, so privacy is a lot better!

https://www.kaercher.com/us/home-garden/robot-vacuums-and-mops/rcv-5-12696450.html

I have one and it's amazing

I had one before my dog, wife and kids came along was so nice.

My mother loved hers. Not that she would have bought one, mind you (I gifted a basic model to her), but the thing can do one very important thing: Clean under the bed without reminding you you're getting old.

D'hoe...