[EEVblog2] Madimack i60 Pool Cleaning AI Robot: Timelapse Analysis

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06:00 - The timelapse starts

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The manufacturer claims it contains “artificial intelligence”? I totally agree!

Don’t you agree, that the robot well emulates the intelligence of a bug trapped in a bathtub?

[Peabody]

Based on my experience with a pool, I don't think you accomplish anything going up the walls.  Dust and debris does not collect on the walls.  It falls to the bottom.  If you have algae on the walls, that's a chlorination issue, and I doubt that either your robot or your sand(?) filter will filter out algae.

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I hope it gets named Hal.

"Climb up the right side of the pool Hal"
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

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Watched the last two videos, I think this pool is akin to robot hell for pool cleaners.

How does it determine where it is?  Is it rotary sensors on the wheels say it has moved x amount, with no other feedback device to show it did move and not just spin the tracks. So it's programming just gets confused all the time.  It needs a GPS base like farmers have on their tractors.  10mm accuracy., I think they are only about $10 000.  Or just have an idler wheel with a sensor so when the drive is moving, but the idler wheel is not, then it knows it is going nowhere.

[Peabody]

I hope it gets named Hal.

"Climb up the right side of the pool Hal"
"I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"

I've often wondered why the smart speaker guys like Apple and Amazon didn't offer one that talks like the HAL 9000.  I would buy one of those.  I would want it to call me "Dave".  Well, licensing issues, I guess.

[msuffidy]

I just wanted to freak everyone out that you can still get images out of time lapses, but I didn't find anything too juicy in there. These are the most relevant frames I got out ot the new pool video. I don't know if Dave realizes it, but it could almost pass as video art.

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Call me blind, but I don’t see anything special about these two frames.

[msuffidy]

Call me blind, but I don’t see anything special about these two frames.

There isn't anything too special about them but you could not for example read Dave;s shirt if you did not stop on one of 3 frames.

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Does the hair look a little bit thin on the top of Dave's head?

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The latest test is disturbing.

It seems to have gotten better but goes up one end and then the ball that is sitting on the pump shed and the floatie thingie on the over side shoot towards it like it has developed force powers.

It is a very soothing get your mind of other things video to watch otherwise.

[Peabody]

So have you become expert in pool chemistry? You need to control chlorine, PH, salinity, alkalinity, calcium hardness, and stabilizer.  And possibly phosphates.

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The new one seems to scurry around like a cockroach as much as the last one. they need some sort of sonar or something to detect sides. Like a boat depth sounder.