I’m talking about the the IRobot vacuum machine.
Does it just randomly choose a direction and then just keep going until it hits a wall?
Or does it have intelligence in it that keeps track of where it has already vacuumed(maintaining it’s state) ?
One thing I read that was interesting was that the same company IRobot built and deployed a variation of the Roomba, the Packbot to Iraq that cleared explosives and helped identify the location of snipers so i am thinking there has to be some form of intelligence built into it.
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I’m uncertain about Roombas specifically, but it depends heavily on what kind of automated cleaner you are looking at. On the high end, there are machines that will map out and systematically clean your floorspace, while on the low end there are machines that will pick a random direction upon collisions. In the middle, there are machines that use algorithms to try and prevent getting stuck or colliding too much, while optimizing coverage.
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