The weaknesses I can see are as follows:
- No procedure and measurements outlined to ensure consistent initialisation
- No discussion of the distribution and placement of dust within pile — “spread evenly” is extremely vague and far more needs to be considered
- No discussion of the properties of the dust materials and learned explanation of why they’re representative of an environment the machines were designed for
- No discussion of the important properties of the carpet
- No quantification of the cleaning speed and understanding why this is important, including overlap properties
- No discussion of how to ensure accuracy of what’s measured and priming system to account for mass losses within the machine (dust sticking etc. and not being weighed)
- No recognition, appreciation, or understand the statistical nature of particle removal from first order systems and how this is to be captured and correctly interpreted
- No evidence of data reproducibility in any testing methodology, given all the above
Most people don’t have PhDs in experimentalism, so this is not surprising. Much of this is covered in my videos.
Even if you did all the above, without a laboratory and the necessary training, the results still have to be taken with a pinch of salt owing to lack of rigor that not using a laboratory brings.