I’ve had a Roomba, and I’ve manually cleaned a floor.
There’s nothing dumb about not having to vacuum and mop.
The best argument I heard for getting one of these was an appeal to laziness.
Either the robot vacuum cleans the floor, or it simply doesn’t happen unless it gets bad enough to justify the time spent doing it. It’s better to live in a house with perpetually clean floors rather than one where the floors get bad enough until you’re forced to take action.
Roombas aren’t designed for commercial spaces.
It takes me a fraction of the time to sweep/vacuum/mop the floor compared to my robot, but the difference is the robot takes a fraction of my time since I can start it and let it run with the odd bit of maintenance and sometimes rescuing it when it gets trapped or sucked up something it shouldn’t.
It’s not a panacea, I still have to ensure that the area is fully clean except for the sweeping and mopping portion. However, as long as I keep up on that part, I can let the robot run overnight and have clean floors in the morning.
A Roomba in a public space is a trip hazard.
A quick sweep is a way to keep busy when there are no customers.
As others have said they aren’t a full replacement for a thorough human vacuum/sweep and mop. But it takes care of the daily maintenance to the point where I only need to do the full work up every three or four weeks rather than every weekend.
That is a very old pic. The logo has been different for a while, they don’t really sell those robots anymore, they went bankrupt and got bought by a Chinese company. iRobot created the vacuum robot and failed at staying in the game.
I have one and it’s amazing
I had one before my dog, wife and kids came along was so nice.
D’hoe…
