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Guides
Evergreen explainers that help you compare technologies and avoid marketing noise.
Build a Home Robot Squadron: What to Buy First
A practical order for buying household robots — vacuum, mop, mower, pool, then windows — and what to skip until the previous machine is actually earning its dock space.
Privacy and Data: What a Floor Robot Can Record
What a connected robot vacuum may map, photograph, or send to the cloud, how to use official privacy controls, and how to lock down the account — without scare stories or invented telemetry.
When a Robot Is the Wrong Tool
The cases where a household robot is a poor buy — stairs, heavy debris, tiny or brutal yards, thick thatch, chemistry problems, and windows the manual says not to clean.
Window-Cleaning Robots: Honest Limits
How a suction window-cleaning robot actually attaches and wipes, and the official limits — frameless edges, glass thickness, wind, tethers, and surfaces it must not clean.
LiDAR vs. Camera Navigation in Robot Vacuums
How laser-based LiDAR and camera-based vSLAM help a robot vacuum map a home, what each does poorly, and why obstacle avoidance is a separate system.