Robot Lawnmowers

[Holley]

Mines been the same. I don’t understand how they can properly work unless you have an ultra minimalist lifestyle with no furniture Can’t do under the dining table properly or sofas or behind doors and the dogs hair messes up its brushes. I reckon its hour of deep cleaning is the equivalent to me spending 3 minutes with an actual vacuum.

Same - i probably spend as long as”preparing” the room (checking under the sofa for stray lego, blocking off the sliding door tracks that it gets stuck on, propping up the sofa it doesn’t quite fit under) as it would just to run a hoover round the areas i know will have 8 year olds crumbs spilt.

Forgot about the prep! Have to move the bar stools onto the table, move dog bed, cat scratching post, dining table benches just to get a decent mop and clean. Only do this if going out or have other jobs need doing, otherwise much faster just to get the hoover out and mop myself.

[unzippy]

I'm amazed at the size of garden a relatively small robot mower seems to be able to cope with

I presume that's because they can go out every night, and if they are going out every night they aren't doing much cutting as there's not been much growing so they can cover more ground.. Or they can do different sections a night?

I wonder if you could make a hutch for it with solar panels on the roof - charge during the day and work at night.

[mik]

yeah, my hoover doesn’t quite deliver on the “set and forget” expectation - though it still is pretty good.

I don't use a schedule for this reason. It gets deployed after I've lifted chairs n shizzles (or even just opened doors, as it hasn't learnt how do that itself yet).

[Mito Man]

Keep saying we need those Tesla robots. Also means you don’t need to buy “smart” versions of all products. Washing, cleaning, fleshlighting. All done by one gizmo

[mik]

Keep saying we need those Tesla robots. Also means you don’t need to buy “smart” versions of all products. Washing, cleaning, fleshlighting. All done by one gizmo

If you follow it round the house, I assume it could do all of those tasks simultaneously.

[Swervin_Mervin]

I'm amazed at the size of garden a relatively small robot mower seems to be able to cope with

I presume that's because they can go out every night, and if they are going out every night they aren't doing much cutting as there's not been much growing so they can cover more ground.. Or they can do different sections a night?

I wonder if you could make a hutch for it with solar panels on the roof - charge during the day and work at night.

I'm sure the ones I've seen do incorporate those.

[DeskJockey]

I'm amazed at the size of garden a relatively small robot mower seems to be able to cope with

I presume that's because they can go out every night, and if they are going out every night they aren't doing much cutting as there's not been much growing so they can cover more ground.. Or they can do different sections a night?

I wonder if you could make a hutch for it with solar panels on the roof - charge during the day and work at night.

That's how the one that was at a holiday home we rented ran. It a tour of the garden every morning.

[dinny_g]

I find having a cleaner negates any issues with Roomba et al…

[16vCento]

Our cleaner is only once a week, with a very malty Labrador, the robot picks up the slack when I'm away with work!

No prep needed though? Just leave all doors open downstairs, it does slowly sex the bar stool bases, but the little spinny brush cleans them all and it's not damaged them, so it clearly is well experienced

Goes under the sofa, TV stand, fits between the dining table legs and dining chairs/benches easily so no messing there, and it hasn't got stuck yet.

The dog also gives zero fvcks about it, which I'm surprised about.