[MLUG - DISCUSSION] Roomba

[Pawel Slusarz <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

--- Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:

> On Tue, 2 Jan 2007, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> > A really smart roomba would remember where it
> found the dirt, and 
> > therefore spend most of its time near the couch
> where you drop your chip 
> > crumbs, but I don't know if we're quite there yet.
> 
> In case you really don't know:  Where not anywhere
> near there yet.

Maybe we don't need get there at all, at least not the
way Jonathan has stated it. 

Roomba has a dirt detect sensor and is supposed to
spend more time in a dirty area, until it's cleaned
up. The 3 or so runs I had it out, it covered every
place in the room a few times (you could tell by the
wheel marks on the carpet). So Roomba's behavior is
random kind of like a fly flight is random - you don't
know where it'll go next, but overall there's a
purpose to it. If you watch your X-Files, it is just
what a successful robot is supposed to do.

To answer your other questions, the price currently is
$250 at BB and CC, and $170 on EBay as a refurb. 


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