iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions

Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions by Izkata on Thursday January 09, 2020 @01:41PM (#22004079)

I have a Neato, which uses magnetic strips for boundaries. No batteries, and in 5-ish years so far, no problems.

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Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions by scrooched_moose on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:11PM (#22005114)

Eufy (part of Anker) is the same. Our entryway is about 1/2" lower than the rest of the house. Small enough for it to fall in without triggering the edge sensor, too tall for it to get back out.

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Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions by beat on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:13PM (#22004404)

That's a good idea! Passive boundaries are better than active boundaries, for sure.

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Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions by Goz3rr on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:37PM (#22004712)

I have a Roborock (Xiaomi) S50 which just has a LiDAR on top and I can set boundaries based on an actual map of my house with the app. Greatly preferable over having to place random things around the house.

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Re:iRobot Terra Robot Lawn Mower – First Impressions by MBCook on Thursday January 09, 2020 @03:20PM (#22005217)

The newer/higher end Roomba’s with cameras on them have the same feature using VSLAM instead of LiDAR.

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