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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by jeromegv on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:03AM (#32355500)
Yeah I had a Roomba 10 years ago. It was starting to age a bit (still working! but would always get stuck). So I was thinking.. it's been a decade.. time to buy a new model, surely they improved!

Nope, nothing is better, absolutely nothing. The "AI" (if we can call it that) to vacuum hasn't improved one bit. It somehow seems so suck a lot less on the carpet than the previous one. It's somewhat better to manage my cat's hair, but that's about it. Sure now I have wifi on it, to re-start it because it often stops too early before it's done. But nothing, no improvement in 10 years.. in ROBOT TECHNOLOGY!

Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by bufferoverflow on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:36AM (#32355934)
Watch vacuum reviews on Vacuum Wars channel, tons of innovation, mostly not with Roombas though

https://youtube.com/c/VacuumWars/videos

Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by brandon272 on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:35AM (#32356675)
Same experience. Bought a Roomba in 2008 and didn’t like it much. Bought another in 2021 and was shocked at how little it had improved in that time. It’s better, but not by much. And clearly behind the technology in some of the Chinese vacs.