What breaks?

I am trying to understand in your view what are the parts that actually breaks and what kind of improvement we would need.

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winrid 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Robot vacuums are massively simpler and they fucking break all the time. Wheel motors or their position sensors, belts, plastic gears, contacts that corrode, a circuit board someone decided to not comformally coat and a cat puked on it...

	▲	gboss 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		My roomba (Rosie) is going strong 8 years in. It’s just the bump into everything vacuum only kind but it gets the job done for my 900 sqft apartment

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fooker 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not an expert on this.

Passing on what I have heard from robotics researchers at lunch conversations.

My impression is that any moving part that is not an electric motor or an hinge breaks.