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I would like a robot vacuum cleaner, any reliable, non-data-hungry EU options out there?

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[โ€“] paf@jlai.lu 19 points 5 days ago (8 children)

Not exactly what you asked but just in case, you can free some robot from cloud using valetudo List of supported device can be found here

https://valetudo.cloud/

[โ€“] Wrongdoer2@sh.itjust.works 6 points 5 days ago (6 children)

If your priority is not to benefit to Chinese giving them data it's great but you'd still give them money instead of directing it European manufacturers (if they exist).

[โ€“] JustEnoughDucks@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

(They probably don't exist)

The product companies may have European owners but I believe pretty much all if their electronics and plastics manufacturing will be in China. For those small motors probably also in China. Europe has mostly industrial motors and industrial/medical electronics fab/assembly and plastics (maybe some of the chips would be infineon/stm/NXP though).

I hear this excuse a lot: "it's all built there anyway!" forgetting that company XYZ may have their stuff built in China, but they also have quality control... So yeah, I prefer giving only part of the money there instead of the whole price tag.

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