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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by deelowe on Friday August 05, 2022 @02:46PM (#32360248)
Does it still double as a poop spreader or did they finally add a sensor for that?

As a former roomba owner, the issue I always had was that it was pretty terrible about coverage. The random walk it did often left large areas vacuumed as it had no sense of where it had and had not vacuumed.

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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by jdlshore on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:13PM (#32360611)
Your information is many years out of date. The latest model maps your house (and has been doing so for a long time), uses a camera to identify and avoid obstacles including poop, and automatically empties its bin.
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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by lostlogin on Friday August 05, 2022 @03:07PM (#32360538)
It’s very methodical and works in lines at home - unless it gets into chair-leg hell under the kitchen table (table and 6 chairs, 28).
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