Vacuum cleaner robots are technology
What's the best robot in the market? I need one that can go back to its charge station and preferably can work without a spyware app
>inb4 clean it myself
I'm outside most of the day and I can't be arsed to do it

>>106125288 (OP)
These things die all the time trying to navigate neetcaves.

>>106125288 (OP)
There's one that doesn't use internet but self charges but I don't want hte price to go up so fuck off

>>106125288 (OP)
Xiaomeme robot is what you're looking for. You can put it to work by pressing a button and goes back to its station all by itself.
>broom
>vacuum cleaner
>mop
The catch is that it can't navigate well through convoluted spaces.

>>106125288 (OP)
>What's the best robot in the market?
Feed the following through your favourite translating site:
High end:
https://www.tek.no/samletest/i/y3GLPJ/beste-robotstoevsuger
Low cost:
https://www.tek.no/samletest/i/al73bd/billige-robotstoevsugere

I used that site and plan to buy a Dreame X50 Ultra for my parents.

>>106125316
That's been a solved issue since they switched to lidar like 5 years ago anon-kun.
>>106125288 (OP)
> preferably can work without a spyware app
https://valetudo.cloud/pages/general/supported-robots.html
One of these probably
If you only need vacuuming, you can get away with some super cheap shit, I got a used one for like 70€ (200 new) and it's working really well. If you also need mopping and a base station that auto-empties the robot, you have to pay more.
>I need one that can go back to its charge station
All of them can these days.

They are a massive gamechanger, I don't even use my vacuum anymore and my flat is always decently clean. If you have steps/places that aren't flat, the better models can climb small to medium sized obstacles, so do look into that.

>>106125288 (OP)
chink ones are good enough. if you're megalazy there are some that empty themselves but they charge big money for that feature and you still have to empty the deposit and do maintenance anyways.

>>106125288 (OP)
if you have pets or children these dumbass things will create more work for you to complete the job than just doing it yourself. if ur pressed on time just vacuum one room per day before bed. if u have a ranch style home or shitbox apartment with flat floors then go for it.

I picked up the dreame l20s ultra pro heat or whatever chink name for half price and I'm impressed by how well it works. Essentially flawless

>>106126363
I have 2 dogs and a cat and my robo vacuum/mopper has been handling it no problem. All I do is tidy up the floor space in the kids play area before bed and the robo slave does the rest

>>106126566
which model are you using? the one used at the place i dogsit for has an issue where the brushroll constantly gets oversaturated with dog hair and toy stuffing so it doesn't work after the first few passes in 1 of their rooms. they also have one of those gay ass cordless dyson vacuums (humiliation apparatus) with 0 suction power that has the same problem. a family member of mine also had one of the original roombas and it was nothing but problems.

I have a roborock S7 i got for $250 refurb. It's honestly kind of meh... I mean it's nice that it vacuums everyday but it's more maintenance than I anticipated.
The mop is basically useless, I quit using that feature because I think it was contributing to the cliff sensors getting fucked up. I've had to replace them twice now and you have to take the entire fucking thing apart to get to them. Plus, I live in a 1 story house so I don't even fucking need them functional, but the robot won't work if they are broken.....
It gets choked up on pet hair kinda easily, so if there's a lot on the floor I have to pick it up manually. Sometimes the thing just forgets where it is and starts mapping imaginary space and gets lost. If that happens i gotta find the thing and reset the stored map. Doesn't happen very often but often enough that I'm mentioning it. I don't feel like the auto-emptying dock would help that much either since dog hair tends to get wrapped around the rolling/spinning pieces and if you don't clear them out every time it runs it will immobilize the robot.

Roombas are easy to repair, I have repaired mine and my parents' many times, and use an old one for spare parts to repair the current ones. The design is OK for repair though the rotating brush assembly is fairly bad. The gears get gummed up wit dust and the motor driving the brushes is a bit fragile.

>>106125288 (OP)
Thinking of picking up a roborock QV35S, seems like the cheapest one with auto mop washing.
If you don't need mopping at all you can go really cheap.

>>106125288 (OP)
I had a heldesk call where one of these grabbed the gpon cable and pulled the fucking ont of the table and broke it

>>106126664
I got S5 Max after reading the reviews, and removed the water tank and mop after trying it out once or twice also. The thing is absolutely retarded if you have carpets, because you can't mop and vacuum separately, so the robot tries to mop carpets, drags doormats around, etc. I assume it might have something to do with Roomba patents, like a lot of very obvious qol features that are missing.
And the mopping quality is much worse than what you'd achieve by doing it by hand.
So OP, my advise would be to skip the mopping feature and go for vacuuming only.

>>106128102
They have automatic mop washing and mop raising these days, it's pretty much fully automatic, you only have to swap the tanks out like once a week.

I bought a Roborock Q5 Pro, it works pretty well. It saves me like an hour each week. I don't have any pets and have a single story house with no carpet, just a few rugs. Replacement parts have cheap generic alternatives. I think you can also self-host it if you are concerned about IoT spyware.

Dreame X40 Ultra was on sale not too long ago where I'm from. Got a special device to unshittify it coming in the mail next few days (breakout board which you can build yourself, but I couldn't be bothered). Going the Valetudo route.

they're all chink models, just buy the cheapest one with your desired functions

>>106129716
No. Roomba is by iRobot, a US company.

>>106126595
Dreame l20s ultra pro heat. I clean the roller every now and then but dog fur hasn't really been a issue. Might be different with different dogs though, mine aren't heavy shedders. I don't have it but there's a vacuum roller upgrade for the Dreames you can get that has a blade in it for cutting dog hair

>>106125288 (OP)
I had a Roomba, which is genuinely shit now, and a Roborocks model, which is better but still kind of shit since it frequently gets stuck on small stuff

>>106130221
Roomba doesnt use Lidar

>>106125288 (OP)
I have an ancient Shark and up until last month I could still use the app without signing in. Now it asks you to make an account so I guess I'm not using it anymore. Won't matter unless it loses the house map and I have to do a remap.

>>106131321
So?

don't bother with irobot. Look at their stock, it's DEAD. And now, after laying off everyone, they are selling rebranded chink shit.

>>106131449
source: my unchecked schizophrenia

>>106125408
I don't want the CCP to have pictures of my house.

I don't want one with a fucking app on my phone. Eufy used to use a remote. Are there any that are less botnet or is that a thing of the past now?

>>106132582
You should me more worried about Mossad having pictures of your house. Chinks are going to do...what? with it. Say whatever you want about President Pooh Bear and nothing happens. Say something bad about President Netanyahu, you get fired, de-banked, expelled, banned, you name it.

>>106125316
My roborock s8 max v ultra goy super fucking long title edition, is defeated by the space between my toilet and my shower, so I had to setup a cuck zone

>>106133840
No I shouldn't, you mongol rape baby. The israelis don't even sell these things. I wouldn't buy one if they did, it'd probably blow up.
The reason I don't want the CCP to see my house it's because it's a mess and I'd feel embarrassed.

>>106125288 (OP)
who the fuck needs a vacuum, i got tile floors i need mop

>>106133840
Why would they work on that? It is not as if the Palestinians use vacuum cleaner robots.

>>106125288 (OP)
>preferably can work without a spyware app
Check out Valetudo and get one of the robots it supports and is within your ability to root. (Some of the require you to take them apart and solder a custom breakout board onto them.)

>>106125576
beat me to it.

>>106125288 (OP)
i heard roborock is really good but personally, i have a roomba i7+ for my main floor and a roomba i1+ for my basement. They both have self-emptying base stations and they map the floor and you can declare rooms and tell them where to focus and stuff. I got the i7+ for only $300 from 'basically an amazon return reseller' and I got the the i1+ for $20 at a goodwill

Meh I dunno. I really wanted it to work. I have an L10s pro heat whatever, with all the nice mopping and self-cleaning features. The problem is that it just isn't that great at vacuuming at all.
>around the edges of carpets (where it will pass with one wheel on the carpet and one wheel off), a LOT of debris are left unsucked
>the single front brush just isn't powerful enough to sweep corners properly, there's always a bunch of shit left that it just pushed into a corner and left there
>I have cats that use wood pellet litter, it is absolutely incapable of picking it up, a single pellet on the floor will result in CLANK CLANK CLANK inside its roller brush until you grab the robot, pick it up, shake the piece out of the brush and throw it away by hand
And worst of all, vacuum+mop mode is absolutely unusable. I don't know if I'm doing something wrong, but the theory that "it will vacuum all the dust and hair and then mop behind itself" isn't working for me. Instead it leaves a ton of disgusting wet pet hair and soaked dust stuck to the tiles on the floor. "Vacuum then mop" works better but takes twice as long, and is still not perfect due to the aforementioned issues with the vacuuming.

The other thing that infuriates me is the "obstacle avoidance". If there's a pair of slippers on the floor, it won't go within 30 cm of them. If there's a cable on the floor, same thing (unless it doesn't detect the cable and gets tangled, which granted mostly happens in the dark under furniture, and newer models have LEDs so their cameras can work better there). But basically if your floor isn't entirely spotless and free of random stuff, you will have huge patches where the robot just refuses to go.
What's EVEN worse is that sometimes just stepping in front of the robot at the wrong time can cause it to assume there's an obstacle there and avoid that part of the floor, even though you were just passing through and left a long time ago. It doesn't always do this, but sometimes.

>>106125288 (OP)
My vacuum is a dumb one that self charges and just used some basic algorithm to navigate the whole room. Does a decent job.
Seems they don't sell it anymore though because we are in hell and things have to keep getting worse.
https://a.co/d/eurMsSM

Reminder that the Valetudo dev is a schizo and his software is a backdoor.

>>106141562
This is evident the moment you even glance at the docs lmao

>>106141562
>>106141678
The good or bad kind of schizo?
I glanced at the docs and he seems like the good kind of schizo, like the grapheneos dev for example.

>>106141758
The stenzek kind of schizo

>>106141562
My robot has no internet access. Valetudo is not a custom firmware after all. The robot is still running propietary firmware.
However,
>his software is a backdoor.
It's open-source. Do you mind pointing out the backdoor?

>waah the robot doesn't perfectly clean corners
>the dirt collects between the floor and the carpet wash
These things are great if only for keeping the overall density of dust in the environment down. What, having to maybe use a standard vacuum cleaner a few places is the end of the world? As compared to having to do everything by hand? Fuck off, these robots are brilliant.

>>106125288 (OP)
my house is narrow as fuck passages cause i got a lot of shit.

>>106125288 (OP)
Still looking for one, bought a relative high end one and still kinda disappointed. I'm not that concerned with corners, the issue i have is no matter what I do the mop pads stink to high heavens. Also I'll be avoiding those with the spinning mop pads in the future, rollers the way to go imo, my current one still stinks after one run right after I cleaned it. My current environment only has me and my dad so no girls or pet (no long hairs) and no carpets so the vacuum works wonderful, it's just the fucking mops that make the room smell like some wet dog after a run, it doesn't linger but still even that short time having to smell that shit is unpleasant.

>>106144672
here's the thing
>Vaccum
tech works and its good-great
>mop
its geninuely hit or miss and more often than not something that has a short lifespan because water/humidity

so avoid the mop ones for now