Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant’s takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.

  • Bobby Turkalino@lemmy.yachts
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    2 days ago

    I love DIY tech projects and yet I would never go through the effort to make a robot vacuum because vacuuming is already the easiest chore in the house. You kinda just stand there and go swoop swoop swoop a few times. Takes like 3 minutes to do an entire room. As opposed to listening to the robot vacuum rumble around for an hour and do a half ass job, if it even finishes without getting spooked by a shadow thinking it’s a 100ft cliff

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      1 day ago

      Sounds like you don’t have a thick furred dog that sheds multiple coats throughout the year.

      We got a roomba as a gift and it has saved so much effort of sweeping/vacuuming the excess of fur on the floors.

      Love my husky but damn…

    • sem@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 day ago

      I really don’t like vacuuming, so to me it doesn’t matter how long it takes; I can set it up and then leave the house

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      2 days ago

      Yes, we all need to manage our lives & our shortcomings.
      I like vacuum cleaning chore too, but can have periods when my brainhole just won’t register the todo.