23 Oct 09 Spic And Span Floors With A Robot Vacuum Cleaner!

Straight out of a Richie Rich comic book comes Irona, the robot maid! This time she's here to help you do the floors. Yes, you can pick up a robot floor vacuum cleaner for yourself and free yourself for other more meaningful, creative activities.

The robot floor cleaner is programmed to vacuum the floors of your house completely unsupervised. Control and command is implemented locally via a hand held command unit, or remotely via other technologies like wireless Internet access and cellular mobile networks.

The robot makes a number of sweeps over the designated area. High tech sensor circuits analyze the amount of dirt there is on the floor and compute the amount of cleaning required. This determines the number of times it cleans a certain patch. Its special design allows it to clean under beds and otherwise hard to reach places.

The robot is programmed to navigate around objects, or to turn back when it reaches the end of the room. How it does so depends on the model you buy. Sophisticated but expensive models detect boundary conditions using non-contact techniques like infrared or ultrasonic. Cheaper models stop only after colliding into the obstacle. This can damage the robot as well as the furniture and the walls, so you're well advised to get a model with rubber bumpers.

The floor-cleaning robots do an almost perfect job of cleaning the floor, leaving it spick and span. They generally do suffer from an inability to clean really tight areas, especially at the edges of wall and floor boundaries, and the corners of the room. Those areas will have to be handled manually for the present.

Manual cleaning is still required for staircases and steps. The robots also have a strange appetite for the loose fringes at the edge of rugs and carpets! This causes the robots to stall, and you have to run to their rescue. All these are run-of-the-mill problems which are currently being addressed by the designers of these sophisticated robots.

The robot floor vacuum cleaners work well on all floors. They don't baulk at a little liquid on the floor. They are great at picking up hair, lint, small pieces of paper and cloth just like a regular vacuum cleaner.

The robots work off built-in rechargeable battery supplies. When the charge gets depleted an audio-visual alarm prompts you to recharge the robot's battery. Some models release you from this task as well, returning by themselves to a charging station for a recharge. The price of the robots varies according to the features they sport. The price can range all the way from affordable to way-too-high-for-me!

The biggest advantage of the robot floor cleaner is that it frees you from diverting your time and attention to this daily chore. If you look at it this way, the robot floor cleaner saves you your time. But it does take quite a while longer to do its job compared to the time it takes to do the job under human supervision. The best thing is to turn it on when you leave for work. The floors will be spick and span when you return.

One thing that you will have to do for the robot vacuum cleaner is to clean its dust bag when it gets filled. But don't worry, we're working on that! The robot is definitely well worth the money, being compact, good at cleaning, and especially for being able to operate unsupervised. Meanwhile, get one, and enjoy the freedom from one of the worst examples of drudgery ever known ever known to man!

Understanding the various vacuum cleaners can help you make the right selection on the perfect vacuum for you. Visit www.Vacuum-Cleaner-Online.com to read about the many varieties of vacuums including the steam vacuum cleaner and the backpack vacuum cleaner.

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