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."

stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

• mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  rely? no

  find it a useful assist? yes

  the Roomba can:

  • get under couches that my other vacuums cannot

  • deal with 90% of the average mess (dog hair and miscellaneous crumbs) without my input

  • pick up the little bits that you can never manage to sweep into a dust pan

  • do this within about 10-20% of the time it would take me to do it myself

  things it cannot do:

  • vacuum carpets

  • get into corners

  • deal with large messes

  typically, I will sweep crumbs and crap out of corners into the middle of a room. I do this all the way around this level of the house in under two minutes, which includes picking up the large clumps of fluffy dog hair that have accumulated along the walls and tossing them in the garbage and putting the broom back. I can then run the Roomba, and the only thing left to do after is brush/vacuum the carpets & rugs well.

  I also like the mopbot thingy because that definitely takes less time than doing it myself

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• chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  My Roborock is genuinely an important cleaning tool for keeping my messy house with three kids clean.

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  • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Same, I have a Roborock and it cleans my house 3 times a week, mops and vacuums. I still need to vaccums in corners and narrow spots occasionally but the bot does 95% of the work for me

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• Croquette@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  If the apartment/house layout is good for the roomba, it is a great tool. It doesn’t replace vacuuming and floor washing, but it does reduce the dirtness on the floor.

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• HurlingDurling@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Don’t have a roomba (shark owner) and me and my two other vacuum cleaners depend on my robot vacuum to help pickup both my godwn retriever and corgi hair on a daily basis.

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• Evotech@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I do rely on them. I have two. They basically enable me to never vacuum myself the last 6 years

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  • stoly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thanks for that input. I might look into something.

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• pix_wbmr@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I have a dog and a cat. It saves me ~3 hours of work every month. I make abput 21€ per hour. So that’s basically 63€ I saved monthly.

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  • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Who pays you on your off time? Bad logic.

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    • pix_wbmr@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Those 3 hours are hours I invest in my business generating a second income.

      Every hour you spend doing chores could be hours spend enjoying your free time or working on projects.

      There is no glory in vacuuming… if I can automate it, I will

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• 0000@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  It makes my life easier for sure. I just start it when I head outside for work, errands, etc, and it’s done by the time I get back home.

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