Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
by nerdjon on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:34AM
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I have been eyeing the new Roborock S7, but that has both lidar and camera I think.
Interesting that others handle this better. I had heard great things about Neato before so that's why I went it. But it just ended up being more frustrating and not worth it.
Guess I just had a really bad experience.
Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
by KptMarchewa on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:24AM
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I would not complement S5 that much. Mine can never return to the dock alone, which is pretty basic - it knows where it is, but tries to move there from a weird angle, repeats this few times and ultimately loudly fails. Also, it always gets stuck on dryer rack.
The engineering on the modularity is neat though, I agree.
Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B
by moepstar on Saturday August 06, 2022 @01:41AM
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Hm, that's strange - i've even used mine in 2 apartments now, on 4 floors no less..
No issues whatsoever - on the floor where there is no dock it just goes back to the point you dropped it off and started cleaning...
> Also, it always gets stuck on dryer rack.
Have you tried to put some magnetic tape (barrier) on to the legs?
Must've been Neatos implementation i suppose...
On top of the really top-notch LIDAR the S5 is beautifully engineered as well - basically everything is a module (i.e. wheel+motor) which is plugged in and secured with a few screws - really good repairability and also spares are available (needed so far: 1 LIDAR motor, 2,50€; 1 resettable fuse for charging).