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Please oh please try to make Kärcher adopt your stuff. Even their latest premium cleaning bots are hopeless when they don't know where they are, even when I tell them where they are.

Or, I don't know, make your own vacuums.

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I have no hope for this working. I recently bought a dumb meatbag operated vacuum after tiring of the robot's issues. The constant getting stuck in places drove me crazy. After getting a new vac, I used it in a place where the robot had just "cleaned" that morning. According to the new collector's contents, the robot sucked at its job of sucking.

The sad part is that my previous robot (iRobot model from 3 years ago) was better at this.

Mine worked pretty well as well and slightly improved after an update, but has gotten dumber over the years. Not only does it get lost, but it physically gets stuck under things that it did not used to get stuck under.

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