EEVblog 1523 - Dumpster Samsung Cleaning Robot TEARDOWN

[EEVblog]

Stopping the robot uprising by tearing down a Samsung SR8980 robotic cleaning robot found in the dumpster.

[coromonadalix]

thks

Looks like an Star Wars  R2D2   head   loll


I've seen some tear down  with some of them having a beautiful " LIDAR " system in them  ...

[Kleinstein]

At the bottom there is the symbol indicating that these shoudl not go to the normal waste.  Having the LI battery is one good reason for this. Should also no to to the normal E-waste without removing the battery.

The Kalman filter is nothing that special. Much is just about the rules used to generate the filter - usually a system with some redundency in the sensors and thus the need to correct the errors of one sensor from another sensor. E.g. one may be drifting and the other is noisy. The final filter that comes out, may not be something special.

There are quite a lot of IR reseivers - they look a lot like those for IR remotes in TV etc. Chances are they are used to find the charging station from some IR send of the charging station.

[golden_labels]

Dave, I am astonished by the lack of judgment from you! You left the wheels, despite they clearly have controllers in them. You watched enough of movies to know that e.g. zombie hands can still assault humans after the body is destroyed. Worst of all, you probably packed them in one of those metal cans and placed next to the couch feet. Not only the wheels can now learn about human behavior from the couch feet, but they can roam freely in the bunker and conspire with other electronics you store there! Incredible, how easily a human is deceived by machines.

[thm_w]

Odd at the complete lack of Samsung silicon in this thing (just maybe the mentioned camera). Must be a mostly or entirely contracted out job.

At the bottom there is the symbol indicating that these shoudl not go to the normal waste.  Having the LI battery is one good reason for this. Should also no to to the normal E-waste without removing the battery.

Fairly sure there were a bunch of signs in the dumpster room warning as well.

[Neutrion]

What was actually the cause of failure btw. ?
Also would be nice to see what kind of bearing system the main sucking turbine has, because in a not so smart cleaner that would be usually the first thing to fail, and not the Windows...
Is an internet connection needed  to do  vacuuming in the flat? If so, I than maybe these are already smarter than the owners.

Edit: And yeah Dave, great to see that you are supporting a talented graphics designer!  They will need the help only for the next 10-20 years, until internationally it will be sorted out how to protect ones individual artistic style and ideas, or parts of works...