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Robotic Pool Cleaner (Non-Lego Alert!)
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Date: 
Thu, 10 Jun 1999 15:27:49 GMT
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   For all you Hoover robotic vacuum cleaner fans, here's a company making a
variety of underwater models to sweep your swimming pool:

    http://www.haywardnet.com/products/cleaners/c_features.cfm#gator

   This is interesting because, unlike the Hoover model, this one follows a
specific pattern to methodically cover the entire pool.  Of course, it
doesn't have to worry so much about avoiding furniture or family pets, being
underwater most of the time.



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  Re: Robotic Pool Cleaner (Non-Lego Alert!)
 
I got a private reply from Bill Leggett about this device: (...) So it sounds like this thing boils down to some very clever mechanical engineering, but no software or electronics or anything. Still interesting to a robotics fan, but in a different (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.robotics)

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