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As a native Portuguese speaker, the project's name confused the hell out of me. Vale Tudo is Portuguese for "everything goes" or "no holds barred", and is the name of a Brazilian combat sport.

Turns out Valetudo is the Roman name of the Greek goddess of cleanliness, Hygieia (which is where we get the word hygiene from)



That's pretty clever though. "everything goes" is appropriate for an application that lets you root your vacuum and gain full control of it.


Possibly also an apt name for the default setting, if it just vacuums up everything.


Easy fix, tape a boxcutter to the lid. Vale Tudo!


Ah yes, the classic game of "watch out for the hamstringing vacuum" as I go to make my morning coffee.

Alternatively: https://sepulchritude.tumblr.com/post/152864353958/on-the-to...


Yes! I clicked the link expecting to see them make the robots somehow fight, I thought it would be something battlebots-like. Disappointed :(


I have a robot that often has death matches with shoes. The last time the shoe won by flipping the robot somehow


Brazilian here, also got confused and was guessing why the name was chosen. Thanks for the explanation.


As someone who lived in Argentina, it made me think of "pelotudo", which means "asshole" or maybe "dumbass" depending on the situation.


Which rhymes with "boludo".


Is this project Lei de Gil compliant?


Thank you! I was similarly confused.


And also a 1988 soap opera ^_^




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