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By the end of 2007, some 4.1 million domestic robots will likely be in use, the study says. Vacuum cleaners will still make up the majority, but window-washing and pool-cleaning robots are set to take off, it predicts.
Time to tell the Limey robotics engineers about sugar and honey, I guess.
No wonder they boil meat. ;)
I am eagerly awaiting my first Robot. The Vac should be arriving in a week. All the Moms round here are dying to see it, Sue (my wife) is not so sure it is a good idea. :)
[Actually, we do have a trap like that summers, baited with liquid which - you guessed it - smells like spoiled road kill. Or liver left in a freezer which died.... but it DOES work, and with horses we really need something.... tried the little waspies that lay eggs in the flies and maggots, but we were the only ones in the area doing it, and pretty much EVERYONE has to follow suit.... I seriously doubt a house-bot would help!]
The whole fetching beer thing may just drive me to go buy an ER1 and learn Python so I can program my new best friend. :D
I've had mine since April - cleans better than I do (not that that's hard to do!) and I can be in another room doing something else :)! Follow the instructions for maintenance tho or you'll kill it.
I'm hooked - now I want that beer-fetching one! (People have hacked the robotic vac, but they're kinda limited and Python would be so much easier :)!)
I understand the arm and IR attachments are sold separately, now, and they don't throw in the laptop anymore. But they got some big bills to pay! :)
