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[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 2 points 14 hours ago

Their classic bump and go ones are super dumb. The ones with the cameras pointed at the ceiling did alright. I don't think iR has ever transitioned to lidar, still using slam for nav.

[-] hovercat 3 points 10 hours ago

I just bought one of the new 705s that has LIDAR and it's been pretty fantastic. Most of their new lineup has LIDAR now and it's been pretty good compared to my old j7's vSLAM. I'm really not a fan of them being app based and hope that they'll eventually work with Valetudo, but with 2 huskies and cats I just really don't want to have to manually vacuum every single day.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Oh cool, they finally started using lidar! The slam tech was impressive for the data and locational awareness it could do but as soon as I got my first neato I was like 'holy crap this is night and day' for nav.

I thought that Amazon bought iR a few years ago and was expecting them to let the brand die, nothing much happened for the first couple years. I'll still be very skeptical but competition is good.

[-] hovercat 3 points 10 hours ago

Fortunately/unfortunately, they didn't get bought by Amazon. I only say unfortunately because they made a lot of business decisions expecting it to go through, and when it didn't, has caused them a ton of trouble. They seem to be hanging in there pretty well and this current gen of bots seems to be pretty solid. I've had iR stuff for over 20 years now and have generally only had good experiences, so they're still my go-to.

[-] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago

TIL, I thought it had gone through

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