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Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by windexh8er on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:01PM (#32362926)
I've owned Neato, Roomba and Roborock. Hands down Roborock is what I recommend people to buy. Neato had such a great leg up when it first came to market by having the first, and best, Lidar implementation - but their product was marred by horrible customer support, batteries that are garbage and just general failures of hardware that are impossible / too expensive to fix. By the time I gave up on Neato I had 4 of the same robot that I was piece parting out as components died (again and again). Talk about a company that banks on eWaste to keep the sales cycle going.

I'm thankful Amazon bought Roomba - one less reason to even consider them as an option considering all of the current gen vacs are sporting onboard cameras + CV (poop avoidance, is that really a huge concern?).

Re:Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7B by hawaiianbrah on Friday August 05, 2022 @07:22PM (#32363066)
Poop avoidance is a big concern for me. I have two cats. I’ve had my robovacuum spread vomit all over the kitchen.