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Duncan Bell is robot ready

If there’s one area of technology that’s improved the most in the past decade, it’s probably mobile phones. Boring. But if there’s another tech branch that’s gone up in the world o’er whatever arbitrary amount of time you care to think of, it’s been the robot vacuum cleaner.

The earliest robot vacs were rather magical, in that here you had a little disc that scurried about sucking stuff up. Unfortunately, they were also

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