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Comment by gumballindie | Hacker News Reader

I stay away from such devices and if i did buy them i’d rate them accordingly for missing “offline features”. Mine is “offline” but indeed doesnt do self emptying or persistent mapping. Some people feel the urge to shop anything new without considering the implications, but there are alternatives out there.

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Got any actual products to suggest? Requirements are vacuuming+mopping, self-emptying, and enough brains to recharge and continue (which implies some level of internal mapping.)

The roborock S7 barely makes that minimum requirement, and I've never found a second one - as far as I can tell, the alternatives are not out there, and I'm waiting with credit card in hand to be proven wrong :-)

Check out maticrobots.com. I am obviously biased as I am one of the co-founders but we truly have built the next-gen 10x better, fully autonomous mopping and vacuuming bot.

We have everything you mention above and have HEPA bags.

We went against self-emptying because 1) those docks looks ugly - my wife calls them rocket ships and don’t want it in our home. 2) building vacuum that cleans vacuum and makes a crazy loud noise just seemed so inelegant.

Heh, the "drive up to trashbin and call for help" approach looks workable if the bags are big enough. Looking forward to hearing about it again when it doesn't need an iOS device.

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