life with a robot

Life with a robot I hope you all are doing your best I was thinking about this for years and yes an online provider made it extremely easy with small fees I decided to take the plunge I will not share brand or provider, but I want to share the experience and I am posting the link to the video that tipped the scales here, the guy is good.

The learning curve wasn’t as bad as I expected, no assembly needed, once the unit arrived it was a matter of charging and letting it learn the house, two days later a couple bin cleanings later, YES it mapped the house, I even learned how to use the mapping system to map the NO GO zones within your house.

The biggest caveat is the charging cables, and since I’ve seen some great videos on that, I’m going the extra step to make sure the area doesn’t have any cables on the floor, it’s not going to be a good experience, keep those charging cables away.

Growing up in the 70’s/80’s, whenever I saw a cleaning robot I always thought of the movie with the KISS lead singer – Gene/Magnum – Tom (1984), and usually passed by. But I had this purchase on my wish list forever. So far my robot hasn’t tried to kill me but I keep an eye on her yes you have to choose a name when you install the app so I chose something cute Robot 1 it’s still very scary to me and yes you can choose a male name for yours.

You can let the robot clean your house in one pass, but depending on the size, it will need some bin cleaning and it might interfere with your schedule, so in my experience, let the full house mapping last the whole time. that is necessary. needs, my took about 3/4 hours, some refills and bin cleaning happened in between. Once the house map was complete (using a phone app) I was able to divide the house into sections, I tried the scheduler but the app wanted to leave a 3 hour gap between cleaning so I scrapped it and instead I saved “Jobs” and you get a button for “Living Room”, “Kitchen”, etc.

Yes you can connect with Alexa but reviews/experiences are mixed, for now I control with the phone app. Have fun and, just in case, keep the baseball beats handy :-).