{"id":18588,"date":"2021-11-09T06:01:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18588"},"modified":"2021-11-09T06:01:34","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T13:01:34","slug":"overnight-news-i-have-more-than-enough-grit-to-delegate-my-scutwork-to-hyper-diligent-robots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18588\/overnight-news-i-have-more-than-enough-grit-to-delegate-my-scutwork-to-hyper-diligent-robots\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: I have more than enough grit to delegate my scutwork to hyper-diligent robots."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cThe Bloodhound won\u2019t fit on the sofa? That\u2019s not what the vacuum cleaner\u00a0says.\u201d<\/p><\/div>One late-Summer Prime Day in 2019, from the depths of Death Valley \u2013 cancer brain, chemo brain, insane-in-the-membrane brain \u2013 Cathleen bought a Roomba, an “artificially-intelligent” robot vacuum.<\/p>\n

She parked it at my desk, saying it was mine to work out. I approached it the same way I do every other project not my own: I neglected it. My wife is not the nagging type, and Death Valley brain pushed her off in other directions, so no rumba for the Roomba.<\/p>\n

When we were packing up, I thought, “I should sell this thing” \u2013 but we ended up moving it anyway.<\/p>\n

And: I have been vacuuming a lot at the new house. Tile floors betray what carpets conceal: Desert air, at least at around shoe level, is full of grit.<\/p>\n

And so that Roomba was suddenly much more interesting to me. I don’t mind vacuuming, and I like any job where I can tell the difference when I’m done. But: Scutwork is never first on my list \u2013 except my list of jobs to delegate.<\/p>\n

Enter Rosie, named after The Jetsons’ housekeeper, who swept away the grit in two short shifts yesterday and is gamely sucking up dust right now. She was duck soup to set up, with a little extra thought devoted to preventing her from becoming beached by her own enthusiasm.<\/p>\n

Rosie is hyper-diligent, but she is dumb, dumb, dumb. The “artificial intelligence” is a variation on the drunkard’s walk \u2013 that is to say, nothing anyone would even loosely describe as intelligence. If the iRobot people are selling data from this relationship, I cannot imagine what it is. This device \u2013 a Roomba 690 \u2013 is definitely not mapping the house.<\/p>\n

It could be \u2013 it must have a Cartesian relationship with its home base \u2013 and, accordingly, it could be much more intelligent in its approach to vacuuming. Vide:<\/em> Map the perimeter, then work that map by segments, lawnmower style. That would make most-efficient use of Rosie’s battery. Or: Keep records of where significant “dirt events” occur and give Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Bloodhound won\u2019t fit on the sofa? That\u2019s not what the vacuum cleaner\u00a0says.\u201dOne late-Summer Prime Day in 2019, from the depths of Death Valley \u2013 cancer brain, chemo brain, insane-in-the-membrane brain \u2013 Cathleen bought a Roomba, an “artificially-intelligent” robot vacuum. She parked it at my desk, saying it was mine to work out. 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