there is a Japanese robot Guide dog. I am following its progress… sent
Sandy from the dark side of the moon > On 11 Jun 2016, at 18:10, 'RobH.' via VIPhone <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Couldn't you make a Bot guide dog/lead dog out of it? call it K9 if you > must; others did. > > Cheaper to run is my guess and don't have to carry poop facilities. I'd try > one of these, yet not had a guide dog nor ever applied > for one. > > Might make an interesting public awareness exercise what it is about and not > to feed it. > > BobH, thinks it would have mileage. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sieghard Weitzel" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 4:34 PM > Subject: RE: Unboxing my Neato BotVac! Sand Tomkins has shared a file with > you using Dropbox > > > Hi Sandy, > > Sounds great, I suggest you contact the company that makes your botvac and > ask if they could hook up some of that technology to your > brain, next thing you’ll be running around without a cane or a dog, just make > sure they leave out whatever makes the botvac suck up > all the dirt it comes across, it might give you indigestion and I don’t think > our anatomy is designed to cough up furballs *smile*. > > Just out of curiocity, do you know how many square metres your floor is and > how long did it take for it to do the six rooms? > > > Happy vacuuming, > Sieghard > > From: 'Sandratomkins' via VIPhone [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, June 11, 2016 6:19 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Unboxing my Neato BotVac! Sand Tomkins has shared a file with you > using Dropbox > > Hallo to any who were interested in the Robot Vacuum cleaners. Mine has > arrived and I have made a couple of recordings: the first, > lasting about half an hour, is just unboxing it. The second is my first > experience using the Bot. > > In passing, I should say that I was very impressed with the way it dealt > with my, somewhat, complex floor-plan. On our ground > floor, we have 6 rooms, all interlinking. Apart from the kitchen, all have at > least 2 doors, some have 3, not counting external > doors. I left all the internal doors open, nevertheless, the BotVac did each > room, not being tempted out of the room until it was > finished. Ithought, when it had done 5 of the rooms and seemed to be heading > home to the docking station, that it had missed the > little utility room, Near to the back door, but, NO! it made its way there, > back through 3 rooms, and did the last one. Once > finished, it headed, unerringly, only banging its head a little on a > treadmill, but not put off from its direct line to the docking > station, where it backed into place, sang a song and sent me a message to my > iPhone saying it was done! > > This hoover has better mobility than me! It walks into fewer things and > has a great sense of which room it is in. I want a > botVac hat!! > > Satisfied Sandy. > Hi, > > Here’s a link to “2016-06-10 02_59.wav” in my Dropbox: > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/m0jxpureed3fc6b/2016-06-10%2002_59.wav?dl=0 > > > sent from the dark side of the moon > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please > contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list > itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please > contact the owners or moderators directly rather than posting on the list > itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. > > If you have any questions or concerns about the running of this list, or if > you feel that a member's post is inappropriate, please contact the owners or > moderators directly rather than posting on the list itself. > > Your V iPhone list moderator is Mark Taylor and your owner is Cara Quinn - > you can reach Cara at [email protected] > > The archives for this list can be searched at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/viphone. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- The following information is important for all members of the V iPhone list. 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