Robot! Robot! Clean My House! |
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| Written by Ned Dagostino | ||||||
| Wednesday, 24 December 2008 | ||||||
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Straight out of a Richie Rich comic book comes Irona, the robot maid! This time she's here to help you do the floors. Yes, you can pick up a robot floor vacuum cleaner for yourself and free yourself for other more meaningful, creative activities. Man has exercised himself for centuries now thinking up ways and means of ridding himself of labor, manual as well as mental. A robot is a machine which does not require direct manual supervision to alter its behavior or activity according to situational dynamics. The floor robot vacuum cleaner is designed to clean the floors of the house unsupervised. Some models can be activated remotely over the Internet or by the cell phone system. The robot makes a number of sweeps over the designated area. High tech sensor circuits analyze the amount of dirt there is on the floor and compute the amount of cleaning required. This determines the number of times it cleans a certain patch. Its special design allows it to clean under beds and otherwise hard to reach places. The robot is programmed to navigate around objects, or to turn back when it reaches the end of the room. How it does so depends on the model you buy. Sophisticated but expensive models detect boundary conditions using non-contact techniques like infrared or ultrasonic. Cheaper models stop only after colliding into the obstacle. This can damage the robot as well as the furniture and the walls, so you're well advised to get a model with rubber bumpers. Robot vacuum cleaners do a first-class job in cleaning the floors. The design of the robot is such that the vacuum nozzle is very close to the body, and sometimes on the underside of the body. This means that the nozzle cannot reach those tight spots in the corners, and the tight join along the run of the wall. So you may have to redo these areas yourself. Your robot can't climb stairs and so you'll have to do the stairs too. Then you'll have to look out for other problems that the robot can't handle. One example is the loose fringe that is often found on the edge of rugs and carpets. The long loose threads of the fringes can get ingested by the robot vacuum cleaner, causing it to come to a grinding halt. These and some other problems still need to be sorted out. But they are incidental to the main work that the robot does so well, and that is floor cleaning. The floor robot vacuum cleaners that are available today can handle all sorts of floor surfaces, and work well on carpets too. They are programmed to detect pet hair and wet patches, and clean these up in addition to normal dirt and debris. The mobility of these robot cleaners is due to their self-contained power packs. When it is time for a recharge, the robot advises you of this by audio-visual signals. Some really brainy models scurry themselves off to the recharging station and get the recharge done by themselves! The starting price of these robots is really quite affordable. Specialty features raise the price, and according to the features they provide the price can rise to what can fairly be called exorbitant. The robot takes over the boring task of vacuuming for you, and lets you devote your precious time to more important functions, like looking after someone ill in the family or preparing the day's meals. Be warned that the robot floor vacuum cleaner actually takes quite a lot of time in cleaning the floor! If you need the floor cleaned in a jiffy, then you'd better do it yourself. The robot floor vacuum cleaner can't empty itself; this has to be done manually. You will definitely appreciate the freedom from the single chore that is the biggest headache in your routine. So get a robot and do something more creative while the floor is getting vacuumed by the robot.
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