News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B. Parent comment

Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by drakonka on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:27AM (#32355816)
I recently went from a Roomba S9+ to a RoboRock S7 MaxV Ultra and it was like night and day. The RoboRock has not gotten stuck on a single cat toy, cable, or sock yet. It doesn't bump into furniture repeatedly. It is considerably quieter. I feel like it is the first time I can actually safely start running a robot vacuum while not at home, and not worry that I'll come home to a robot tangled in some random object.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by tommit on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:08AM (#32356308)
How does it avoid cables? I have an earlier Roborock version and while I love it and will defend it until the day it dies, I've found that cables are the absolute nemesis. Does your version have computer vision?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by drakonka on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:50AM (#32366261)
Pretty sure my version is a standard RoboRock S7, only with the "Ultra" base that also cleans the mop. I might have lucked out with the cables so far. Fwiw I do try to clean the floor of clutter a bit when I know I'm going to run it, but it has still encountered charging cables etc during the run. It's just taken a picture of them as "obstacles" and gone around them.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by charles_f on Friday August 05, 2022 @09:49AM (#32356088)
> S7 MaxV Ultra

Gosh, we're approaching the marketing singularity

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by ChuckNorris89 on Friday August 05, 2022 @11:08AM (#32357228)
The "Pro +" is still missing.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by charles_f on Friday August 05, 2022 @10:29PM (#32364251)
Worst is that it probably works.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by aceazzameen on Friday August 05, 2022 @06:13PM (#32362576)
Being that it's more expensive, the RoboRock should definitely be better than Roomba.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by drakonka on Saturday August 06, 2022 @04:48AM (#32366252)
The part that makes it more expensive is the "Ultra" base. The unit itself with an equivalent base to that of my Roomba is about 200 USD less expensive than the Roomba where I live.
[ Parent | on HN ]