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adventures in tiny pet robots
Mar. 21st, 2020 11:35 pmI am much happier when the floors have recently been swept and vacuumed. The world is a much nicer place, and it's great. Unfortunately, I also really hate the process of, um, doing the vacuuming.
Fortunately, I just got a giant wad of cash to spend on assistive tech.
Which is how I come to find myself in possession of a tiny pet robot that's exploring the house mostly by dint of trundling around and gently donking into things, putting me in mind of nothing quite so much as trilobites, which page I link to because of its splendid variety of ancient marine woodlice with decorative headpieces.
It does this wonderful little affronted considering pause when it hits something.
It is incredibly confused by the rug, not least because it knows this space is something it has been on, so why can't it get there, it got down just fine, the other direction wasn't a problem (answer: it's struggling with getting over the edge except from a couple of specific angles at the corners).
Good things so far: TINY ROBOT PET; thirty-six hours in, it's an effective encouragement to keep the floors rather clearer; it does under the bathroom cupboards where I Fear To Tread and for that matter under the ridiculous chest of drawers in the bedroom; in so doing it has excavated an attachment for one of Adam's oral hygiene devices and a perfume sample I hadn't realised was missing. We keep following it around going "oh NO" and cooing over it being Adorable.
Downsides: oh dear friend you are really struggling with the rug. I'm not entirely convinced of its capacity to cope with the front hall carpet, which gets mud tracked into it sort of inevitably via the medium of wheelchair. I think it might need me to run the Grown-Up Vacuum over it once more to get it started: I can see how it might be able to keep on top of the world if it runs every day despite being underequipped to cope with doing a whole job from the get go. It has not yet quite managed to find its way down my side of the bed.
So the jury's still out on whether this is a foster home or a forever home, but it is very cute.
Fortunately, I just got a giant wad of cash to spend on assistive tech.
Which is how I come to find myself in possession of a tiny pet robot that's exploring the house mostly by dint of trundling around and gently donking into things, putting me in mind of nothing quite so much as trilobites, which page I link to because of its splendid variety of ancient marine woodlice with decorative headpieces.
It does this wonderful little affronted considering pause when it hits something.
It is incredibly confused by the rug, not least because it knows this space is something it has been on, so why can't it get there, it got down just fine, the other direction wasn't a problem (answer: it's struggling with getting over the edge except from a couple of specific angles at the corners).
Good things so far: TINY ROBOT PET; thirty-six hours in, it's an effective encouragement to keep the floors rather clearer; it does under the bathroom cupboards where I Fear To Tread and for that matter under the ridiculous chest of drawers in the bedroom; in so doing it has excavated an attachment for one of Adam's oral hygiene devices and a perfume sample I hadn't realised was missing. We keep following it around going "oh NO" and cooing over it being Adorable.
Downsides: oh dear friend you are really struggling with the rug. I'm not entirely convinced of its capacity to cope with the front hall carpet, which gets mud tracked into it sort of inevitably via the medium of wheelchair. I think it might need me to run the Grown-Up Vacuum over it once more to get it started: I can see how it might be able to keep on top of the world if it runs every day despite being underequipped to cope with doing a whole job from the get go. It has not yet quite managed to find its way down my side of the bed.
So the jury's still out on whether this is a foster home or a forever home, but it is very cute.