There are some appliances that it makes sense to combine. For instance, many of today's best robot vacuums have mopping capabilities, which means they can take care of all (or most) of your floor cleaning needs in one fell swoop. However, when Midea announced it had created a hybrid robot vacuum / washing machine, it felt like an odd combination. In fact, I thought it was downright stupid. As it turns out, I was wrong.
I should clarify first that the Midea WashBot in my head was not the Midea WashBot of real life. I was envisaging a robot vacuum with some kind of unwieldy washing machine hat. In retrospect, this was not an intelligent assumption.
