re: IRobot Roomba 880 Vacuum Cleaning Robot

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That's just the way it works. It heads off in some direction until it runs into something and then turns around and heads off in another random direction. Eventually, the entire floor gets vacuumed. Maybe.

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The randomness helps in ways that the neato cannot overcome. By being random, it can catch things it missed or that were blown out of the way during another pass. If that happens on a neato, and the particles land in an area that was already passed over, it won't be picked up.

There are benefits. Don't think they haven't thought of this before we did, lol

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The randomness helps in ways that the neato cannot overcome. By being random, it can catch things it missed or that were blown out of the way during another pass. If that happens on a neato, and the particles land in an area that was already passed over, it won't be picked up.

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Valid point. Another thing that the Roomba does (not sure if the Neato does or not) is that if it encounters a particularly dirty patch, it will stop and do a spot clean of that area before resuming its random pattern.