Dyson 360 eye

[Rupert]

https://www.dyson360eye.com/

I want one of those....

[littleman]

Hopefully it works better than a Roomba. I have one of those collecting dust in my garage.

[Rupert]

yea my roomba had orange spilt on it... never worked again. 

The bin was always too small for my house and the rubbish we leave on the carpet.

[Rooftop]

I bet it sucks
(I think I have all eventualities covered there - good or bad)

[littleman]

 

[rcjordan]

If you don't have the autonomous bot, roomba or otherwise, it's not worth having. 

I almost bought an RL850 lawnbot the other day on CL. But even though it had solid reviews while in production, it wasn't self-docking so nope.

[Brad]

My Roombas work great.

[rcjordan]

> Roombas work great.

Yeah, same here  ...and we're really mistreating them lately. Letting them stay lost for a couple of days when they get caught under a chair or lock themselves in a bathroom, not dumping the bin until stuff is hanging out.  But I also had the first roombas that you had to send out on a mission. The novelty wore off and I ended up giving them away. I saw 3 of the manual-launch versions for $40 (that's 3 total for $40, not each) on the regional CL just this week.

<added>
It was the recall of the manual-launch PITA factor that kept me from buying that cool lawnbot, though, so they served a purpose.

[Drastic]

Soon rc will be single-handedly fueling the r&d of the terminator scenario.

[rcjordan]

>Dyson

About a year ago, there was a loooong AMA held by a vacuum repairman (several other repairmen joined in) in reddit about "the best vacuums."  It was started by a request from redditors, went several thousand posts, and was considered to be a great, practical thread with a lot of review info.  The short outcome was tha Dyson was great on marketing, mediocre (charitable) on product quality.

>roomba

These things have no more vacuum power than a Dustbuster.  What I've learned from them is that, given enough time, even a dustbuster can vacuum a big house. Mindless, semi-randomized repetition is the only thing that really matters.

>lawnbot

I'm puzzled why these haven't taken off here in the US yet.  My guess is that there are more legal issues with mfg liability than with product development.  Take a look at the bots iRobot has developed for the military or police for surveillance or bomb disposal. Hell, slap a mowing deck under one of those and sell it to me!

>terminator

I am sorta interested in drones for use in maintenance --I'd like to have one with a night cam that could crawl under a house to do inspections.

[rcjordan]

<added>

This one catches my eye:
http://www.chinasuperman.net/product.asp

I can buy it for $800 online. For the US market, that's a good pricepoint (I need 3), but I'm not willing to spend that kind of money on unreviewed and potentially unsupported cheap chinese crap (ccc). For me to go the ccc route, it'd have to be throwaway priced at 250-300 so that I could afford backup units.  OTOH, if this thing were on Amazon with 4 stars and a few hundred reviews, I'd order it today.

To put the costs in perspective, having my lawn mowed by a service costs $80 per week. $100 if Louise wanted extra trimming, etc.  We have a 24-26 week mowing season here.  Do the math. I could replace the above fleet every year for that.  Alternatively, a good mower -even on CL- goes for $2k and up. Mowing takes 2 hours.

This lawnbot market is going to be hot-hot-hot one day. And it's going to put a lot of Bubbas out of a job.

[Brad]

>>roomba

You can't replace a conventional vacuum cleaner, but if you run the Roomba regularly and frequently you don't have to hand vacuum so often.

>>Dyson

I own both Dysons and other high end vacuums and IMHO bag less and Dysons are a bit over rated. Dysons are not bad but not as good as they make out.  If you have pets you want a vacuum with a bag.

>>lawnbot

Last time I looked they needed to make it easier to teach the bot the boundaries . If I buy a cheap $400 dish washer, two guys from Lowes deliver it, install it, haul away my old one and show me how to use the new one all for free or nominal charge. With a $800 or higher lawnbot, I'm on my own.  That will scare most of the buyers off right there. The other problem is theft.

[Gurtie]

>> the other problem

and terrain.  A flat lawn without many obstacles would probably be ok. A sloping lumpy bumpy thing with veg patches, hard landscaping drops and dead ends sounds like more of a challenge. If you can find me one that does that I'm buying....

[Rooftop]

If they can build one to tackle your Garden Gurtie then I'll be really impressed.  I struggled to navigate it (especially after a few hours hospitality!)