Got mine from Amazon on the 21st. Such the hella-cool bot! I know just enough about robotics and electronics that this thing confuses me in that it can be waaaay away from it's charger and still make it back to dock accurately on time before the battery dies. It must keep some kind of a history of where it's been and when it saw the charger last to calculate the charger's approximate location in relation to its current position. I sort of assumed it's algorithm was kind of random but even when I think it's going to miss a spot, it eventually wanders across it. Very impressive. Love it.
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Got mine from Amazon on the 21st. Such the hella-cool bot! I know just enough about robotics and electronics that this thing confuses me in that it can be waaaay away from it's charger and still make it back to dock accurately on time before the battery dies. It must keep some kind of a history of where it's been and when it saw the charger last to calculate the charger's approximate location in relation to its current position. I sort of assumed it's algorithm was kind of random but even when I think it's going to miss a spot, it eventually wanders across it. Very impressive. Love it.