Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."

CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Not to support this cloud-only system, but I used to own an iR (several, actually) and they can clean the entire space, pause, and cancel/dock with physical buttons.

  Though it loses a large chunk of its smarts without a connection. No floor plan retention, no room selection, no 1 pass/2 pass, no knowledge about no-go lines and zones, no adjustable suction based on room…

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  • CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    But there’s no real reason for that. Losing the smarts. OSS just artificial and lower bom.

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  • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Really? It can’t do no-go zones and lines without the cloud? Even the „Chinese competition“ can do that without internet.

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Afaik there is extremely limited storage on these bots, so the floor plan is stored server-side. No cloud, no server, no no-go capabilities.

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      • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Given how cheap flash storage has been for years, this is an intentional design choice. They wanted it to be server side only, likely for data collection purposes.

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      • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        If only we had things like 1tb storage in a tiny chip

        I hope one day we could develop something like this

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      • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        The rommbas? Maybe. The other ones? They have plenty storage.

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