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Subject: 
Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 8 Jun 1999 15:23:35 GMT
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http://www.eureka.com/whatsnew/robotvac.htm

Eureka wants to sell this robotic vacuum cleaner for $1,000 dollars a
piece, according to this interesting article ("Robots becoming a part of
everyday
life")(http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2270775,00.html).
I'm curious- has anyone done anything similar with an RCX?
-Luis

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  Re: Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
 
I'm working on a wall-following robot to vacuum my baseboards. I just recently hooked up a $8.00 6v mini-vac to the motor output, and I'm mounting a touch sensor near the vacuum brush to detect the wall/baseboard. I had a front touch bumper, but it (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
 
(...) Funny just a few minutes before I read your mail I read a ad in the local newspaper about this nice robot (If you own a lawn that is). (URL) (Unfortunatley in swedish) There's even a solar powered version (This I think was the first version) (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)
  Re: Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
 
cool! (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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