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Dyson Preparing a Roomba Killer?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the products-that-suck dept.

An anonymous reader writes "New Scientist's technology blog reports that Dyson, the UK company that reinvented the vacuum cleaner, is recruiting robotics engineers. They're looking for people with experience of machine vision and mobile robots that create their own maps. Is Dyson hoping to take on the Roomba with a much more sophisticated machine?"

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  1. yawn by User+956 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dyson, the UK company that reinvented the vacuum cleaner

    Yeah, they re-invented it to be the BOSE of vacuum cleaners.

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  2. Re:They've had a robot vaccum for a couple of year by iocat · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It can frustrating to watch a roomba "miss" a spot, but the roomba algorithm is actually quite sophisticated. I'm not sure you'd want/need better pathfinding. What I'd like is a solution that enabled the roomba to get into tighter corners, but this seems like an engineering challenge too far.

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