iRobot has not innovated their products in any meaningful way in over a decade.
iRobot has not innovated their products in any meaningful way in over a decade.
This company is doing the reverse, putting self driving tech in vacuum bot...
But then again, they make some weird claims further down like:
It’s normal for a robot to not re-dock from time to time.
No, it's not.Yeah, I was looking for a robot vacuum a couple years ago and figured surely Roomba was the top of the line. Nope, not even close. The big killer, like you mentioned, is not having Lidar, so instead the Roomba has to bounce off of walls and obstacles repeatedly in order to map the room.
I ended up buying a Dreametech Z10 Pro, which I combined with a rooted firmware and Valetudo. No more phoning home to China!
To be fair, though, I don't really care about the speed of vacuuming operations. It's easy to schedule it when I'm out of the house, and it's not like I'm paying the robot an hourly wage.