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. The robot floor cleaner is programmed to vacuum the floors of your house completely unsupervised. Control and command is implemented locally via a hand held command unit, or remotely via other technologies like wireless Internet access and cellular mobile networks.
Sophisticated logic circuits scan the floor to determine the amount of dirt there, and compute the number of passes required to clean the area. The robot then moves ahead and repeats the scan. In this way the whole area designated for cleaning is covered. No more getting down on your hands and knees to clean under the bed or the couch - the robot is designed to clean all those hard to reach places. The wonderful thing about this floor cleaner which makes it a robot is its ability to navigate its way around the room without knocking over or bumping into the furniture, however the furniture is arranged. That's why you can leave it to do its work unsupervised. Some models use bump-detection to detect an object in their way. If you get one of these then it's better to get one with rubber bumpers to avoid damage to the furniture and to the robot.
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. They work well on all floors. They don't baulk at a little liquid on the floor. They are great at picking up hair, lint, small pieces of paper and cloth just like a regular vacuum cleaner.
The robots work off built-in rechargeable battery supplies. When the charge gets depleted an audio-visual alarm prompts you to recharge the robot's battery. Some models release you from this task as well, returning by themselves to a charging station for a recharge. The price of the robots varies according to the features they sport. The price can range all the way from affordable to way-too-high-for-me!
They takes the place of a domestic help. You can do other more important things while the floor is getting done by the robot. This saves your time. More than that, you'll appreciate the freedom from that dead-boring, mentally stultifying chore which is as brain-numbing as they come! Cooking is creative and positive, the dishwasher and the washing machine don't require you on site all the time; it's just the vacuuming that requires you to be there every second! Yes, if you think that 'saving time' means that the robot can clean the house quicker than you can, you're mistaken, badly! It takes at least twice as long as a manual vacuuming operation.
Ah yes, there's also the small matter of emptying the robot floor cleaner which is still your responsibility. But this is just a minor irritant compared to the advantages of having a robot do your vacuuming for you. Not only does it save you your time, it releases you from that feeling of drudgery that is part and parcel of doing the same old job, day in and day out.

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