₹25,000 to ₹100,000 are flying off the shelves, even without sales demos MUMBAI : When the lockdown was imposed in March, freelance writer Deepa Nair was faced with an immediate challenge: how would she manage the mounting domestic chores of not only her family of four but also her elderly mother, who lives in a separate flat in the same building.With her husband busy working for a leading grocery delivery company and domestic help locked out of the apartment complex, she turned to automated gadgets.“Pre-lockdown we would never have thought about getting robotic vacuum cleaners for our household as it just didn’t justify the high cost.