How to Make a Robot Vacuum Climb Stairs
We have some ideas..
As expected, the love for the robot vacuums still runs deep here. When we’re done watching the vacuum and talking about the vacuum we watch videos of robot vacuums.
Sad, but true.
The specific video we watched was the new prototype vacuum with legs. I guess this is big news in the robot vacuum community as it was all over my news feed. 1This new and improved model has legs that make it look like a frog trying to climb stairs.
The child was asking question after question about the vacuum, so I showed her the video that was going around where the vacuum fell down the stairs - which shows we’re not there yet.
Then she went to bed.
The first thing she said to me when she got up this morning was that she had an idea for the vacuum that falls down the stairs: It needs a 3rd leg on the back of the unit.
This was the topic of discussion all morning while we had breakfast and we even made a quick prototype of the model with the 3rd leg added:
Excuse the rough draft as we had 8 minutes to catch the school bus so there wasn’t a whole lot of time to get the measurements right and we just went with the tools that we had at hand and that included her glass of OJ and trivet
As you can see the third leg solves all the problems with the vacuum falling backwards down the stairs and my little future engineer was certain that this would work and be the solution. Of course, the real engineers actually have to figure out how all this works, but she has filed patent number :01082026 for this idea before the somebody else swipes it.
The child just can’t believe that they didn’t think of this. She told me that when the robot vacuum that can climb stairs gets figured out with her design that “people will get to ditch their brooms and mops”
In the meantime, keep the brooms and mops handy because despite the marketing it doesn’t look like we’re there yet with stair climbing robot vacuums.
Still sweeping the stairs by hand,
TH and Co.
another example of sad, but true.