Robot Reviews

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This resets the battery monitor system to it's new 3.4 system defaults.

My Botvac 85 came the other day and the combo brush had the shielded bearing, while the beater brush had the sealed one:

Sorry. My point was that he probably never really (successfully) flashed 3.0, and that he corrupted the default boot image on the robot so that now it is only booting the fallback factory image.

"There is a later firmware version available for my Neato"

This means that the flashed version failed to load and the robot reverted to the fallback, factory-installed version.

Not sure about your reference to misuse, but pose in this sense is a technical term widely used in probabilistic robotics literature as well as in computer vision:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pose_(computer_vision)

I'm pretty sure the 3.4 update will only run on the Linux-based XVs

So the Dyson's frankly arrogant lack of bumper the robot uses over current (as Neato does in reverse), which therefore hits the object much much harder than a bumper with a rubber edge would. I think at 1:03 the guy demonstrates that the whole top of the robot acts as a forward bumper (he pushes th...

Usually Mono-SLAM (visual slam with one camera) does some high-level feature detection (like SIFT), then does data association between features of sequential video frames (connecting a feature from one frame to another in a different frame). After the association is done, some form of "structur...

Specs for Digital Slim are somewhere around 6-20 minutes runtime (depending on "max" mode on or off http://www.pocket-lint.com/review/124496-dyson-digital-slim-dc59-review ). You'd have to double the unit's battery, and then add some more to power the drive motors and processor for the rob...

The navigation engine most likely implements some variant of Mono-SLAM, which has to do 3-d reconstruction to extract map data from the video stream (lot's of processing power). Reliable features would only be available in well-lit environments (no cleaning in the dark), unless they add some sort of...

Hal, The brush is about 20% longer. It's a lot more cross sectional area to pull through. So the velocity has dropped. CNet testing also showed a reduction in some pick-up tests, but overall better, due to the coverage improvement, and side brush. The filter is around 60% larger, though, so it shou...

My "marketing" response is directed towards the fact that a longer brush is used without boosting air watts along with it. As a result the air velocity drops. The fact that people are seeing more brush buildup than on XV series serves to confirm this. If the Botvac has a different (hopefu...