Robot Reviews

Hello Vic! Glad to still see you here! Thank you for the warm welcome. As I have mentioned on the previous post, there have been some good progress in the home robotics but specifically within the floor cleaners. Saying that the industrial materials (i.e. plastics) used today are still very similar ...

Hello fellow home robot enthusiasts! It has been many years since I last posted in this forum. It is interesting to see how many owners, enthusiasts and tinkerers/hackers visit this forum. I have seen the early stages of home robotics and it has come a long way since 2002/2003. Many improvements and...

Hello mouse2,

This is a great tip! Thank you for sharing it with us and sorry for such a late response.

crab wrote:hmmmm i always run 2 missions with scooba until red light Power appears... am i damaging the battery?

Yes, if you continue to do it each and every cleaning session. No, if you do it only once in a "blue moon" (approximately once every 20~30 complete charges).

Some owners do not want to spend $50 to $80 for a new battery on a $400 Roomba after one year. A faulty battery after one year? That has to be the exception instead of the rule. It is a known fact that these batteries have an average life expectancy of about 2 years (with recommended maintenance) s...

Since Roomba breaks within a year and iRobot does not repair them, I would say most of them ended up at the landfill. This is how iRobot can sell so many. Hello TechGuy, Where are you buying your robots from? I know that iRobot domestic robots need improvement with their engineering materials but w...

I personally like the "retro" look because it reminds me of the Sci-Fi movie "Blade Runner". What I really like about Neato XV-11 from the get-go is the fact of using SLAM technology to map out cleaning areas. The non-round design was an interesting choice by Neato but from the C...

Mazdated wrote:I haven't tried it yet but I think I can do that with my current filters.

Hello Mazdated,

Yes, you can do this on 4000 and 500 series Roomba air filters. Here is a "How To":

HOW TO REFURBISH YOUR ROOM AIR FILTER

Hello roombaNewBe,

Most likely it was solved by the introduction of the new dirtbin/vac design as found in the Roomba 550:

http://www.robotreviews.com/chat/viewto ... =1&t=12252

Enjoy!

No, it's not about transmitter power. Basically, the more rooms you have, the less efficient Roomba becomes without Lighthouses. Actually, i think that even two rooms connected via doorway is a stretch for non-LH guided Roomba. So, it's pretty pointless to run Roomba in a large house without Lighth...

The North American version of the Samsung Tango is available at Futureshop: http://www.futureshop.ca/catalog/proddetail.asp?sku_id=0665000FS10134300&logon=&langid=EN&test_cookie=1 By the way, the Roomba 550 is the latest revision offered by iRobot. It is most likely that we will see a ne...

1) NiCd is cheaper 2) It has longer life than NiMh. A LOT of customers complains that their battery dies pretty fast, often within warranty timeframe. So providing NiCd batteries allows iRobot to save on replacement batteries 3) Without Lighthouses, there is no real reason for a robot to require bi...

Seems that the Aerovac resolved the problem I have reported to iRobot when the first 500 series Roomba came out. Here is the original post from November 19, 2007: Roomba 560 Clogged Dust Intake Problem This is a nice evolutionary step forwards for iRobot's Roomba series. I have also noticed that the...

Hello Cleanmateroomba,

Glad to know you found the review worthy. I want to thank Fraggboy and Craig for resurrecting the review from the depths of RoombaReview's vaults.

Kind regards,

Nikolai "THX-1138"

Hello CleanmateRoomba,

I made a detailed review of the QQ-1 a few years ago on this site, have you read it?

Yes I did have one and have posted pictures of it in this forum. Here are some:

Hello Cleanmateroomba,

What type of pictures and/or information are you looking for? Let us know.

This is a very interesting Robot from Korea! Thank you for sharing this find with us. In the last 3 years Korea is pushing very hard to surpass the Japanese in the robotics field and so far they seem to have done so! About this robot, the bottom seems very similar to Microrobot's UBot. Take a look a...

Hello dbc

Check out Chris's post about how to purchase the Karcher RC3000 directly from Karcher - Germany:

Kärcher Robocleaner RC 3000 can be shipped to the US!!

It will cost you US$1550; this includes S/H charges (USA duties are seperate).

Nicolai - very nice site/blog!

mike

Thank you Mike You and everyone here is welcomed to visit or to check out what is new within the domestic robotics world.