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Wish you had a robot like a Roomba that would roam your house 24x7, vacuuming up every hair, dust bunny and dirty footprint? That's the job of the Ecovacs Robotics "Deebot D79", and after a few weeks of having it work to keep his house clean, a candid assessment from Dave Taylor- of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/
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hi Dave Tina here again and this time
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I'm hanging out with a robot how is that
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for cool now is this robot talking to me
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no not so much it's this guy what is
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this no you might recognize it from the
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brushes this is not a Roomba but it's a
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similar sort of vacuuming robot and a
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company called a Kovacs robotics sent
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this to us to try out and we've been
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having some fun over the last week or
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two with the D BOTS D 79 now this is a
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pretty fancy little Robo vacuum cleaner
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because in addition to all the controls
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on the front and everything really these
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are all about their sensors and their
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suction so this thing actually has some
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really cool slick designs for example as
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you can see in this little clip it
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actually when it goes back to its base
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it automatically has a vacuum in the
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base that pulls the dirt and dust out of
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the robot that's pretty slick from what
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I understand a lot of them you end up
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having to manually
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even that's kind of lame it also has
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these dual side sweeper brushes you see
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that here and that's very nice as you
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can see in this clip
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it does actually tend to go along the
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edges and it really wants to its earnest
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it's a earnest vacuum cleaner that
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really wants to go and do a good job so
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we have it just running all over the
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place and as you know mostly what you
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can see is it's a heck of a cat toy now
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my cats love this thing they are really
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obsessed every time it comes on it's
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like it their hide it's their size so
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they are very very attentive and they've
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gotten a little more confident over time
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too so at times the younger of the two
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cats in particular will just lay there
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and just bad at it when this thing's
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coming at it which is quite entertaining
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but more seriously one of the other
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thing interesting things is the d-bots
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comes with a remote control so when
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you're ready to get started you just
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push the auto button and it seems to me
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like you have to push it a half-dozen
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times before it notices I guess it's
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sort of a slacker robot that it's
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sitting there going I don't have to
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vacuum I'm just chilling out thinking
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about robot things and eventually once
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it gets started then it goes really well
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and it works on hardwood floors tile
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floors carpet all that sort of stuff
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then there's another button that is the
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home button and you can actually
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manually control it there's a lot more
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you can do but those are the two buttons
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that we use the most here and it's
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pretty slick it doesn't fall down stairs
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or anything although I suppose if it did
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it would be okay it would just lay there
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at the bottom saying it does
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occasionally get caught up though in
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particular has a really hard time with
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the base of our cat climbing system now
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this might be some sort of secret
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antipathy between robots and cats but it
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just tends to get stuck on that little
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shelf and then a human actually has to
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come and intervene by picking it up and
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putting it back down otherwise one of
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the things you find with a robot vacuum
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cleaner is all the wires that you have
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laying around all the shoelaces from
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shoes all the electrical wires all of
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that stuff ends up being you know
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invalid targets so this thing is
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constantly sucking things up and pulling
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cords or
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the house and stuff which we then have
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to go and deal with kind of a hassle I
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should say that this is a pretty
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expensive unit but it does come with
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lots of attachments and the base unit if
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you saw has sort of a big canister you
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can use that separately to actually do
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some separate like you know sealing
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vacuuming obviously this thing's not
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going to do really well on the ceiling
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so they really have a full vacuum system
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but honestly I think that for the vast
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majority of people they're gonna get the
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D BOTS and they're gonna say go and then
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walk away and see what happens
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now it comes with four cleaning modes
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and it actually changes what mode it's
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in based on how much dust it detects so
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basically in my house with you know kids
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and cats and the chaos of my life it's
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always on high now let's be fair it
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doesn't do that great a job and this is
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kind of a drag and I've put it on
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different modes and the factory sent me
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the turbo mode instructions and stuff
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and it's okay I mean it doesn't actually
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I don't know how to describe it it's
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like it vacuums it's like an 80% job
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it's probably equivalent to having one
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of my kids do the vacuuming but versus
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something like a really high-end vacuum
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cleaner that you're pushing around it
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doesn't do that good a job so here's the
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reality is that it's a really nice
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addition to your household but I don't
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know that I would want to have it be the
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only vacuum in my house on the other
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hand if you can afford it's pretty hefty
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pricetag it's six hundred and ninety
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nine dollars suggested retail if that's
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no big deal to you then this really is
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pretty fun and you can program it to at
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3:00 in the morning every night get out
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of its little base and go and zoom
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around and vacuum up all the dust and
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all the particulate matter in your
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kitchen or in your bedroom whatever I
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don't know that I'd want to have it
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turning on at 3:00 in the morning in my
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bedroom maybe what revised that schedule
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but it really is kind of nice to start
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automating some of the tools and some of
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the tasks of keeping a household running
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however like I said there's still
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evolutionary steps that need to come and
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you know I think the reality is is a lot
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of it is just sighs it's a small unit to
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have a really large
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an engine in it and to still also be
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able to have a container that could hold
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the dirt so that might be reality on a
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single charge and it's obviously
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rechargeable on a single charge it runs
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over two hours we've let it just sort of
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roam around and it does seem eventually
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that it does full coverage but there's
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also some software challenges too I
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think and that's true of all of these
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not the least of which is that as soon
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as they map out that sort of 3d world of
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your house you move things around so
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that chair that was pushed in is now
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pulled out the toys that were on the
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floor are no longer on the floor I
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suspect this thing would it would
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absolutely adore Lego that might be
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something you'd need to consider but all
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in all the d-bots D 79 from eco vac
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robotics at eco vac robotics comm is
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pretty cool it's it's a pretty fun
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device if you have the ability to afford
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it's 699 price tag it could actually be
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a really fun addition to your house and
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it definitely will keep things like your
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kitchen or bedroom much cleaner so this
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is Dave Taylor and my robot bud and I
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we're gonna go off and have a talk about
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vacuuming I don't know whatever and I'll
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catch you in the next video
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