Straight out of a Richie Rich comic book comes Irona, the robot maid! This time she’s here to help you do the floors. Yes, you can pick up a robot floor vacuum cleaner for yourself and free yourself for other more meaningful, creative activities.

Man has exercised himself for centuries now thinking up ways and means of ridding himself of labor, manual as well as mental. A robot is a machine which does not require direct manual supervision to alter its behavior or activity according to situational dynamics. The floor robot vacuum cleaner is designed to clean the floors of the house unsupervised. Some models can be activated remotely over the Internet or by the cell phone system.

The robot makes a number of sweeps over the designated area. High tech sensor circuits analyze the amount of dirt there is on the floor and compute the amount of cleaning required. This determines the number of times it cleans a certain patch. Its special design allows it to clean under beds and otherwise hard to reach places.

The wonderful thing about this floor cleaner which makes it a robot is its ability to navigate its way around the room without knocking over or bumping into the furniture, however the furniture is arranged. That’s why you can leave it to do its work unsupervised. Some models use bump-detection to detect an object in their way. If you get one of these then it’s better to get one with rubber bumpers to avoid damage to the furniture and to the robot.

The floor-cleaning robots do an almost perfect job of cleaning the floor, leaving it spick and span. They generally do suffer from an inability to clean really tight areas, especially at the edges of wall and floor boundaries, and the corners of the room. Those areas will have to be handled manually for the present.

Your robot can’t climb stairs and so you’ll have to do the stairs too. Then you’ll have to look out for other problems that the robot can’t handle. One example is the loose fringe that is often found on the edge of rugs and carpets. The long loose threads of the fringes can get ingested by the robot vacuum cleaner, causing it to come to a grinding halt. These and some other problems still need to be sorted out. But they are incidental to the main work that the robot does so well, and that is floor cleaning.

The robot floor vacuum cleaners work well on all floors. They don’t baulk at a little liquid on the floor. They are great at picking up hair, lint, small pieces of paper and cloth just like a regular vacuum cleaner.

The robots work off built-in rechargeable battery supplies. When the charge gets depleted an audio-visual alarm prompts you to recharge the robot’s battery. Some models release you from this task as well, returning by themselves to a charging station for a recharge. The price of the robots varies according to the features they sport. The price can range all the way from affordable to way-too-high-for-me!

The biggest advantage of the robot floor cleaner is that it frees you from diverting your time and attention to this daily chore. If you look at it this way, the robot floor cleaner saves you your time. But it does take quite a while longer to do its job compared to the time it takes to do the job under human supervision. The best thing is to turn it on when you leave for work. The floors will be spick and span when you return.

The robot floor vacuum cleaner can’t empty itself; this has to be done manually. You will definitely appreciate the freedom from the single chore that is the biggest headache in your routine. So get a robot and do something more creative while the floor is getting vacuumed by the robot.