Meet George Jetson

**Big Dave** · 30th March 2012, 18:28

They have been around a while, but we have our first domestic robot.
Automated vacuum cleaner, scoots around the house till the battery runs down, then finds its way back to the recharging station and gets ready to go again.
Doesn't do a bad job of the floors either. Takes longer than doing it manually, but screw that now!

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**speights_bud** · 30th March 2012, 18:42

Still gotta get the Mrs to do the corners tho.... unless u have a round house and no furniture... which George Jetson pretty much had i believe...

**jasonu** · 31st March 2012, 05:42

My mate has one to clean his wooden laminate floors. It does a good job but is a lot noiser than they show on the infomercial. I guess that doesn't matter if you set it to run when you are out.

**paturoa** · 31st March 2012, 06:45

Conversation heard in the KR office the other day...

"Hey, has anyone seen the green compressor? You know the one that had the KR sticker on it"

"Nope, haven't seen that since BD left"

**HenryDorsetCase** · 31st March 2012, 08:39

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I loved the Jetsons

**p.dath** · 31st March 2012, 10:06

Originally Posted by Big Dave

They have been around a while, but we have our first domestic robot.
Automated vacuum cleaner, scoots around the house till the battery runs down, then finds its way back to the recharging station and gets ready to go again.
Doesn't do a bad job of the floors either. Takes longer than doing it manually, but screw that now!
...

How does it empty itself?

**Big Dave** · 31st March 2012, 13:21

Originally Posted by p.dath

How does it empty itself?

It doesn't - it stops. You just have to be smarter than the robot :-)

**Big Dave** · 31st March 2012, 13:22

Originally Posted by paturoa

Conversation heard in the KR office the other day...

"Hey, has anyone seen the green compressor? You know the one that had the KR sticker on it"

"Nope, haven't seen that since BD left"

Is that an Australian joke???? :-)

Nah it's mine - only powers an airbrush. The KR one does tyres.