You knew it woud happen eventually, and it has! Just like Jane Jetson had Rosie in the cartoons, you too can have your very own robot maid. Well, don’t dump your vacuum cleaner just yet, but yes, you can sit back and relax while the vacuuming gets done by itself, courtesy of the floor robot vacuum cleaner.
Man has racked his brains for hundreds of years thinking up ways and means of doing away with labor, physical as well as mental. A robot is a machine which does not need direct manual supervision to alter its behavior or activity according to situational dynamics. A robot vacuum cleaner accomplishes this by performing the vacuuming without a human being present. Some models can be activated remotely over the Internet or by cell phone system.
The floor cleaning robot uses the latest robotic technology and logic to perform its task. It can actually sense or see any soil on the rug or floor, then decides how many passes over the surface are required to make it clean. The latest models are deliberately designed small to go under beds, couches and other furniture.
The robot is programmed totravel around stationary objects, or to turn around when it reaches the end of the room. This is done in one of several methods depending on the machine you buy. The more high-priced models use infrared or ultrasonic techniques to keep from banging into unmoving boundries. Lower cost vacuums will run into an object before turning away. Rubber bumpers are required on these to avoid damaging the vacuum or your furniture and walls.
The robot vacuum cleaner does its chore very well. It will have a few problems in corners and on the baseboards. This robot does a fine job with average house cleaning. You will still need to do some of the fine cleaning by hand.
Other troublesome areas include fringed rugs and stairs. The present models cannot negotiate stairs. And computer programming still can’t help most of them realize that fringe will get sucked inside and cause them to stall. But as with all problems, resolutions will be coming in the near future.
Even so, these machines can handle most floor surfaces like wood, tile and carpets. And in addition to normal dirt, they are also programmed to detect problem areas like cat hair and wet patches.
A robot vacuum cleaner has a built-in rechargable battery. When the charge gets depleted an audio-visual alarm reminds you to recharge. You can even get rid of this job by buying a model that automatically returns to it’s charging place when necessary. The cost is very much dependent on the features you choose to have. The cost can go all the way from inexpensive to way-too-high-for-me!
What makes the robot floor cleaner so good is that it gives you some time back in your busy day. If you consider it this way, the robot floor cleaner saves you time. However it will take quite a bit longer to do its chore compared to the time it takes to do the chore under personal supervision. The best thing is to turn it on when you leave for work. By the time you return, your clean floors will be waiting for you.
True, there’s also the small task of emptying the robot floor cleaner which is still your duty. But this is just a small irritant compared to the advantages of having a robot do your vacuuming for you. The time savings is tremendous, but when you toss in the fact that you’ll no longer have to do a chore you hate day after day, then a robot vacuum cleaner is one investment that is difficult to top.