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<div><span style="color: rgb(38, 40, 42); font-size: 13px;">Don Taco via Stagecraft <stagecraft@theatrical.net> wrote:</span><br></div><div id="ydpbee034f0yahoo_quoted_2368096171" class="ydpbee034f0yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;">
<div>><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">I edit your post for truth and clarity...</span></div><div><div id="ydpbee034f0yiv5967604212"><div style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0);font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><div><div>> So, I think the Roomba would need a complete re-design from scratch, to be useful.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>You are correct. I have not found them worth the $5 I paid for mine, in terms of household usefulness.</div><div><br></div><div>Actually, I suspect that this type of technology should be most likely to be useful in a place like a theater. And especially a movie theater. They can be bigger, but still fit under the seats. They don't have to deal with things like power cords. Though, I suspect that a human being would need to go through and get things like cups, and lost mittens.</div><div><br></div><div>And though our theater uses volunteer help, in a professional environment, a robotic vacuum may earn its keep. Of course, there may be flaws in my thinking that I am not seeing. Sticky floors, and floors still wet from a spill may not be compatible with robot wheels.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">I am beginning to see the advantage of working out a deal with a local animal shelter. Wait a minute, I forgot that theaters may already have contracts with the hamster union. Would that be a barrier to getting volunteer animals from the animal shelter?</span></div><div><br></div><div>-Joe</div><div><br><br></div></div></div></div>
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