The good variant of 'okay' concept

The ViRobi is in short a nice thing, but you should not expect too much or even at face value what is suggested in the promotional video.
The concept of a flitting through the area, small dust-eating cattle is my long been known from this small Rollmops here RoboMop SoftBase / incl. Motor Ball / 5 replacement pads / rechargeable battery (installed) and charger / black, but which, to put it mildly, billigster plastic waste is.
As I said, the concept is the same and, accordingly, my expectations of the Vileda ViRobi were realistic - only I was hoping for better processing, and the present.

The concept itself, an anti-static cloth, mounted on a set of wheels, is not the best. Of course, this construction no path can compete with a robotic vacuum cleaner, logical somehow. Navigate Intelligent he does not really - he drives halt in randomly kicking through the area; and more than dust and hair and he does not take part in its cruising speed. Crumbs, and just everything that can not be statically charged (logically or?), He can lie or pushes it into the next best corner. Vacuuming is therefore still announced, but one can ignore it a bit longer than without the ViRobi.
Also, it is in the nature of things that are not special black-hole anti-static wipes, but, and depending on the circumstances quite quickly come to the limits of their capacity. Everyone knows these cloths, ne able dust layer over it in the bay is. Of the advertising promises as the animations in video advertising to convey that this UFO valiantly struggling through a meter high dust jungle and tirelessly cubic meter, eats dust, you should take a few meters distance. With average "A few days not vacuumed" burden he is very clear, everything that goes beyond him come to its limits.

A special feature of ViRobi design that I first found exciting - and stupid - are its wheels. From RoboMop I know just this Rollmops plastic ball, of course, totally abstinkt against ViRobi's race-flops, but once its wheels have become dusty, he has no more grip and is relatively ... lethargic. For me it has happened when he is under the bed, across was on the opposite wall arrived (I thought it was at that moment very listless, my double bed is between other furniture jammed against the wall, he has of course in the corner hid the to achieve the impossible was without even having to ask for half my furniture). You can, however, remove very well and clean again.
He also is not quite as nimble as I expected and is little off-road capability, to make it not once over 2cm high baseboards come.
Somewhere under the dash, if that does not take under-furniture-Versteckspielchen upper hand, I find this design solution yet succeeded because I know that it is much worse.

Oh and he's not quiet. He is a pretty even on the biscuit with his humming, something like a swarm of bees in a laundry bag. But he has the battery you can switch [see Addendum 13 January 2013] and its overall appearance is quite good.
Since there in the market - to my knowledge - are only two products with this concept, the ViRobi is by far the better option; He makes a good and long-lasting impression. If these expensive robotic vacuum - like me - are simply too expensive, is not too fussy and suck with one or the other crumbs until the next dust and kick it can enter into a residential community on their own, is very well advised by ViRobi.

Supplement January 13, 2013:
The batteries can in fact change, only if a particular replacement well is written on another sheet of paper.
According to imprint there are 1.2V 1000PmAh NiMH batteries with solder tags U. What is the meaning of this P previously could not tell anyone. Unfortunately I have not been given with solder tags found no such batteries. On a request from Vileda there was no reaction - from the forth is tempting to speculate whether intentionally somewhat exotic batteries have been chosen.