http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/ Engadget Comments for Neato's XV-11 robot vacuum maps out your floor for efficiency, doesn't ask for weekends off http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 10:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 1:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/They do produce noise - it is a vacuum cleaner, after all - but they are quieter than most regular vacuum cleaners.]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
As it is, he barks at our Dyson.]]>Dec 16th 2009 10:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
Hell, I have a picture somewhere of my dane romping around with a full size christmas tree in his mouth... its hilarious.]]>Dec 16th 2009 10:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuteness_in_Japanese_culture

Small terriers terrified of housecleaning robots are kawaii.


Will someone take way his engadget membership until he does something about those Roomba/Neato eating monsters he has?


;)]]>Dec 16th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
Ummmmmmm.......
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_meat#Japan
Japan

Today Japan imports some of its dog meat from China, which amounted to 31 tons in 2006.[54] In Japan dog meat is available in Koreatowns such as the ones found in Tsuruhashi, Osaka and Okubo, Tokyo.

No, any country that imports dog meat covers up their barbarianism with a Vail of cute things.

Mate, dude, bloke, gadget lover, barbarian, get off your high horse, but then you would probably eat that too.

You don't really know "dogs" till you have owned a Great Dane, 90kg of pure cuteness, or to you, 90kg of stir fry. :)]]>Feb 22nd 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
BAD DOG OWNER

You obviously torture your dog by treating it as a little human. Heads up mate, it's a dog and with a strong pack leader (dog owner) you just don't get these issues.

If you are a Doctor of anything you should have the smarts to learn how to treat your dog properly. Like a dog. There are multiple resources on the net regarding this topic. Use you intelligence not your emotion!]]>Feb 22nd 2010 8:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 10:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
I also wonder about this too. How will it handle animal hair?

I know my cat would try to fight it as well, lol.]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Feb 22nd 2010 8:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
The Roomba is NOT A VACUUM (unless newer models are very different from the first couple of generations).
If it doesn't create suction, and instead uses brushes to pick up dirt, then it's simply a motorized broom.

]]>Dec 16th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/That is a distinction without a difference. It picks up dirt. The method is not as important as the efficiency. A low suction vacuum is no more efficient than a good broom, and maybe less.]]>Dec 16th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/well of course a Roomba isn't a vacuum, a vacuum is an empty space]]>Dec 16th 2009 12:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/;)]]>Dec 16th 2009 12:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
I have the first generation roomba and it does create suction. There is a small motorized fan that sucks up dust behind the brush. It probably isn't very powerfull, but it does get dust up in there.]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 11:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 11:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/........ ...]]>Dec 16th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
I don't know the details of how they are mapping the room, but I do know that I was thinking of methods like this, including mapping and tracking transient obstacles, back in High School. But like every idea I have ever had, I figured someone else had already patented it and forgot about it. Then someone goes and ACTUALLY pattens it...

I am patenting EVERYTHING from now on...]]>Dec 16th 2009 11:16AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/That'll get expensive quick...
Death to patents.]]>Dec 16th 2009 11:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
I was thinking the same thing. Beautiful finish and tasteful fixtures. Who can pay attention to some plastic gadget with such beautiful woodwork!?]]>Dec 16th 2009 12:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
and it also begs the question...will it play pac-man?]]>Dec 16th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 11:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/+1 I have to clean my living in before Rumba vacuums, otherwise it will choke on my cat's toys, get lost between dining chairs or eats a curtain...]]>Dec 16th 2009 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 11:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 12:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 12:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
Why can't they make little transmitters that let the robot triangulate its position in the room and thus get better coverage. If it knows where it is then it knows where it has gone.]]>Dec 16th 2009 12:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 1:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
Because that costs twice as much as just using a space-filling algorithm.]]>Dec 16th 2009 3:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
Sounds like a lot of empty promises that are more on the lines of being too good to be true.]]>Dec 16th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 1:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 1:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
I've had a few Roomba's and they need to be emptied a billion times - so often in fact that it is usually just easier to pull the damn vacuum out and do a once over myself. What they need to do is make an intelligent docking station that it can dump its own dirt out in.

It would also be neat if you could then program it to move to different rooms on its own.

Making the process MORE efficient (which is what they seem to be espousing here) only means I'll have less time between needing to empty the stupid thing.]]>Dec 16th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
You need to run your Roomba more often. ]]>Dec 16th 2009 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
The genius of the Roomba is that it doesn't need to map out the room in order to clean it, nor does it need 5000 H.P. suction. It hits every spot several times from different directions.

Sure you can load it full of sensors, but it adds cost and complexity. To hell with a display on the robot, just give it a BlueTooth chip and an iPhone app.]]>Dec 16th 2009 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
They're a startup, with an empty website promising to revolutionize home chores with robotics... so they aim at the *ONE* thing that's already done, and done well enough, at a price lower than their opening price.

They do positioning sensors instead of random algorithms like the Roomba... The Roomba algorithms are proven to give you over 95% coverage... you've seen the time-lapse photo of the roomba with the light on top (http://images.google.com/images?q=roomba+path)... so they spent all their engineering time on a problem that didn't need to be solved. No mention of automatically emptying the debris bin and autocleaning the brushes or anything that might make it actually worth more than the Roomba.

I actually wish them well, because competition in this arena can only result in better products at lower prices, and their website's promise of a robot revolution in various chores is as appealing as the first Roomba was to me (I bought it, and the next generation). Hopefully there's more to them than the article here indicates.]]>Dec 16th 2009 3:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
"I don't mean to piss in anyone's Cheerios here"

LOL!! Ew...]]>Dec 16th 2009 3:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
I have to agree.. their video and information seems too good to be true and lacks a lot of details.. I spend more time cleaning the brushes then anything.. where is that info?

If this thing actually has suction that is decent then it might be pretty cool however can't imagine the battery life being all that great.]]>Dec 16th 2009 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/Dec 16th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/neatos-vx-11-robot-vacuum-maps-out-your-floor-for-efficiency-d/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bq5HZzGF3vQ

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