Robot vacuum cleaner a different experience

My wife bought one a couple of years ago. Here are some of the things I learned about the thing.

·  *   It does a better job of vacuuming than I ever did. Could be the robot has a better vacuum system than the handhelds my wife and I owned over the years, or maybe it lingers longer. OK, I do a faster job of vacuuming then the robot. But it doesn’t have other things to do, like read a book or post on a blog or watch a baseball game on TV.

·  --     The robot is loud. Much louder than an ancient, handheld style. Don’t think you will successfully watch TV while the robot bulldozers through the living room. You might want to activate Closed Caption while the thing roars around.

·   --    Dogs do not like the robot. Our two put up with it, but they don’t like it. When the robot gets close, they leave the room. The dogs eventually go to every room in the house, but the robot keeps dislodging them.

·  --    It is funny when the robot faces a problem and must ask for human help. “Waltzee requires assistance.” “Waltzee is now lopsided. Please place Waltzee on a level surface.” The thing even tells us when its dirt/lint tray is full.

These things were invented and sold for people who work out of the house. If you are at an office or operating a front-end loader, you don’t hear the robot.

One of these days, a manufacturer will introduce a model that takes care of itself. The new model will have legs to lift the device out of the patio door slider, and it will empty the lint tray on its own. Eventually, the robot vacuum cleaner will decide day and time of cleaning.

I don’t want one of those.