Has anybody got a robot vacuum cleaner?

[two sheds]

Well Which doesn't seem to rate anything below around £500. Am now thinking of this cordless

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There are similar for around the same price but I already have a battery for it (shame they don't sell bare bones type version cheaper).

 

[Epona]

does he need a costume?

That's almost like a feline analogy of most of the rest of us dealing with the horrors of late stage capitalism, there's a real sense the cat has given up at this point.

 

[Oriole]

does he need a costume?

I bought mine with high hopes of cat robot riding antics. He's scared of it.

On the other hand I still get a giggle when I load the app and the map of the kitchen has a bit of garden in it from the time I launched it but forgot I had left the door open to air the place

 

[two sheds]

I bought mine with high hopes of cat robot riding antics. He's scared of it.

Does scolding it not work with cats? It worked with my dog and the vacuum cleaner

 

[A380]

I’m not sure about the cost, I mean I could afford the vacuum cleaner, but not sure about the armoured doors and steel plate for the panic room I’d have to build to hide from it when the inevitable robot uprising comes.

 

[Chz]

Have a Roborock S6+ (the plus is the mopping attachment).

First of all, it's no good if your house is cluttered. One of the Boy's tasks is to move everything out of the kitchen into the back yard once a week (and back again!) so the thing can do its magic. If someone invents a robot that can tidy a room, even for several thousand pounds, I will buy it.

They're not quite as good as a proper hoover. But the intent is that you run them at least once a week and then do a regular hoover once a month or so to get into corners and things. Being 90% clean still feels pretty good. There's no way in our clutter I could set it to run every morning. They do not have a capacity to do more than one room at a time if you leave it more than one week. Sometimes we let things slide and one run around the sitting room after 3 weeks will fill the thing. I suppose if you get a fancy one that empties itself that cures the issue, but I'm not sure I'd pay for it.

The mopping bit is decent enough. Unlike the hoovering, it's nowhere near as good as a proper mop, but again the idea is that you do a proper mop and then use this to keep it "topped up" once a week. And it's good enough for that.

So to sum, I think they're pretty great if you're a tidy person. If you're like us, the results are middling. I know my mrs loves it, but she's the cause of most of the mess.

 

[Steel Icarus]

We've got one. He's called Scutter. Brilliant for the dog hairs that accumulate in the kitchen, and the porch as it's thin carpet tiles. Not great on thicker carpets but well worth it.

 

[skyscraper101]

They look cool but I'm not convinced I need one. I have an upright cordless morphy richards which I usually do a weekly vacumm with. Takes all of 10 minutes.

 

[Fez909]

Have a Roborock S6+ (the plus is the mopping attachment).

First of all, it's no good if your house is cluttered. One of the Boy's tasks is to move everything out of the kitchen into the back yard once a week (and back again!) so the thing can do its magic. If someone invents a robot that can tidy a room, even for several thousand pounds, I will buy it.

They're not quite as good as a proper hoover. But the intent is that you run them at least once a week and then do a regular hoover once a month or so to get into corners and things. Being 90% clean still feels pretty good. There's no way in our clutter I could set it to run every morning. They do not have a capacity to do more than one room at a time if you leave it more than one week. Sometimes we let things slide and one run around the sitting room after 3 weeks will fill the thing. I suppose if you get a fancy one that empties itself that cures the issue, but I'm not sure I'd pay for it.

The mopping bit is decent enough. Unlike the hoovering, it's nowhere near as good as a proper mop, but again the idea is that you do a proper mop and then use this to keep it "topped up" once a week. And it's good enough for that.

So to sum, I think they're pretty great if you're a tidy person. If you're like us, the results are middling. I know my mrs loves it, but she's the cause of most of the mess.

Meet the AI robot that can tidy your room and sort out your laundry

TidyBot may be the machine to create domestic bliss for parents and teenagers

www.telegraph.co.uk

 

[WouldBe]

So to sum, I think they're pretty great if you're a tidy person. If you're like us, the results are middling. I know my mrs loves it, but she's the cause of most of the mess.

Fit them with a high power laser. Anything that shouldn't be there gets vaporised. Added advantage that messy people learn to tidy up after themselves.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

The mopping ones are even more £££

Technically they just drag a damp cloth round the floor after doing the hoover bit but that's about the same level of enthusiasm I mop with so

We got a powered mop thing when we moved as all our floors are hard. It's pretty good and you can just push it around. Probably a bit expensive at over £200, but worth it if you see them discounted. Think ours was a 100 less.

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