10-01-2025 14:00 via spectrum.ieee.org

This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping

Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed in 2010, when home robots started using lidar (and other things) to track their location and optimize how they cleaned.Consumer pool-cleaning robots are lagging about 15 years behind indoor robots on this, f
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