Reducing workload has been a driving factor to invention for many years. From the invention of the first automatic washing machine to the microwave oven, many things have been designed in order to help the home take care of itself a little better and reduce the amount of intervention needed.
When it comes to keeping the floors clean, first there came the broom and then came the vacuum cleaner. This was more efficient but still required that a person push it around the room and put it in the right place. Finally, a vacuum was invented that would run itself.
The iRobot vacuum was designed to run in a logical pattern that would completely cover the floor and vacuum every spot. You just need to keep it fully charged, make sure it is empty and then set it loose. The machine would then do the work that would previously take you a large amount of time alone, and stop when it was finished.
The iRobot didn’t work so well on hard floors, as it was meant for dry use. Still, in time that was addressed with other models being released that could. The Mint cleaner in particular is well suited as a wet and dry hard floor cleaner that has sensors to tell it when it is at the top of the stairs, or near another obstacle so that it turns back instead of falling.
Dyson created an offering that was smart enough to learn a room layout, know when it had completed cleaning the floor and return to it’s charging point. Others were designed to look like cars, bringing a fun element to them.
The latest of these robotic cleaners released isn’t quite as useful as the others. The Dust Ball makes sense conceptually, in that being a ball it is able to move easily from one area to another. There are less problems with it getting stuck at the edge of a raised carpet like a wheeled machine may do, but then its ability to clean is very limited.
The Dust Ball has no edge cleaning ability. When it reaches the wall, or furniture, it’s large round size and shape means that there is a gap of several inches that it cannot reach, and hence leaves un-cleaned. Worse-there is no chance at all that it can clean under the furniture, and so you are left having to get your old styled vacuum out for that.
It does however know when it is full or needs to charge, when it will return to its docking station. A full machine will open itself ready for you to empty it, so that it can continue on.
So whilst there are now a range of robotic cleaners that are promising to lighten our load and make housework a breeze, it would seem that not all are equal. Instead, it is better to choose carefully in order to make sure that the machine that you buy is actually up to doing the job that you employ it to do.
Here are a few of the better robotic vacuum cleaners on the market now:
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