Only the dog is annoyed - otherwise a dream!

Since Christmas we can Vorwerk VR200 call our own. Until then, we still had a robot vacuum cleaner of all of all first generation, namely the old "Karcher RC3000". Of course, the Vorwerk is superior to the Kärcher model infinitely far!

### Program sequence (or, as we think):
1st exit from loading station
2. He pauses and turns: it scans the room
3. Based on the scanned spatial geometry he sets the path direction determined (ie decide how the meander should look like)
4. He kicks off: moves the side edges of the space from (side brush)
5. He gets going: start the train rides to suck the inside of the room
5. In "irregularity" (round object sudden chair leg, ...) he drives them off (they circled as close as possible) and then takes again the classic ride on
5. When the battery is flat he drives targeted back to the charging station. When not finding it starts a search process (goes around and scans for the signal of the charging station)
6. In fully charged battery he moves deliberately back to the last position and then stopped at some point his program.

### Advantage for Roomba, in our opinion ;-)
Roomba: aimless journey (randomly)
Vorwerk: systematic tracks
> Now you might think: "Yes, but the random driving is not so wrong and provides a good result!"
Awake also absolutely (our lawn mower moves randomly and makes super work - is a Husqvarna / Gardena).
BUT: the Roomba per room only a maximum of 20 minutes and then go into the next room. The result is on rare trips so (presumably) a little less well - so it seemed to us. The Vorwerk however, knows exactly when has sucked completely finished (according to Virtual Map) space.
If more frequent travel, is probably the Roomba in advantage in less frequent trips likely the Vorwerk.

### To practice:
- The us to absorbent surface (100sqm) is not "friendly robot" designed (messy, cable, high rugs, chairs, etc.), but he makes his service still very exemplary! Of course, he is not so every time in every corner, there is often a chair somewhere is transverse.
- He goes 3 days per week, while we are away.
- It is absolutely not bad if once the container is emptied only after the 3rd day (content is of course more compact ^^)
- The edges he sucks satisfactory
- Programming is super easy! The Vorwerk accompanied one at every step! Fantastic: -D! Who is reading powerful, can also program the Vorwerk.

### A brief listing of great and less great properties (by now almost 4 months):
+ Super Cleaning program (although you could say that he forgets now and then a job, but suddenly - often at the end - he drives the bodies still on!)
+ Incredible suction power (the madness There is no robot sweeper - as with other so often - a real special robotic suckers!)
+ Intelligence the works (as already written, the cleaning program works very well to meander!)
+ Time programming a dream !!
° The edge cleaning not perfect (the side brush may have a larger diameter)
° On black / dark areas of the side sensor fails frequently (he bangs permanently against the wall, rather than to depart clean)
° carpeted walkways function is good (which other model has already !?), but it is still in the early stages (ie not perfect). Where our carpet "proud" is 30mm high. But after several attempts to make it most.
° The magnetic cable works well in principle, but if too thick carpet (about 30mm) is on it, it works sporadically.
- The remote control is a joke and does not really have to ehrlichzu rarely ... and to be more honest!
- The dog likes the Vorwerk NOT !!! (In the beginning it did not bother her nothing, now it bothers them but very We noticed that indeed a fine, faint beeping sound during operation -. You may be the reason of the antipathy).
- If the Vorwerk blocked a regular pipe signal sounds (ringing). This, too, should be observed from love of animals. Therefore, the Vorwerk travels with us only late afternoon, so the dog is not exposed too long to the "cries for help" of the VR200.

### Wishes for the future:
- A Bluetooth connection for your smartphone. So you could A) on the remote (which anyway does not work) dispense and leave this manual "driving gimmick" walk on smartphone and much more important B) get a status report on the interest (as soon as you come home) within the meaning of: He shall suck? How long he sucked? Does the dust container to be emptied (if VR200 is hidden somewhere under the counter)? Were there any problems? Programming also possible via Smartphone! etc ....
- Carpet walkways function evolve! Perhaps another kind of "hook" or in addition to the current "grab" a "slider" or "elevator" which raises the Popo the VR200. Because the problem of "not coming up" on the carpet is probably less on the "gripper" but rather the fact that at some point the wheels no longer have grip on the ground and he may not drive on it.
- Larger side brush
- The faint beeping during operation dampen, so the lazy, too thick dog can sleep

### CONCLUSION
It is and remains a robot without "Artificial Intelligence" ;-) that is, it's not a Wall-E does everything perfect! Even the Vorwerk ignores minor, the edges are not always drawn to 100%. Whereby again it should be noted: Our house is not robot-friendly!
Nevertheless, it makes for an incredible workload. Regular vacuuming can actually be greatly reduced!
Furthermore, it is interesting that the VR200 after "manual vacuuming" still extremely absorbs much! So he will probably come to many places that overlook the normal upright vacuum cleaner or simply were processed "too quickly".
In our opinion, the robotic vacuum cleaner is at a global level (ie in the normal, wide-area ground) significantly better than a manual hand-held vacuum (it slows down, really can go anywhere and "chasing" not as the room). On difficult or complicated points (many cables, office chair legs, edge, etc.), but are still "we" clearly intelligent ;-)
Currently we are well on the stand that robot and man beautifully complete.

And as I said, it saves a lot of work: I for one hate to suck namely :-)!