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Roombas Gone Wild
These little self-propelled vacuuming dynamos don't just devour dust. They can wreak havoc on a household.
Who knew that Roombas were herbivores?
There I was presenting a Webinar while simultaneously vacuuming a spare room, feeling good about my work/life balance.
Following the Webinar – as any good housekeeper would do – I went to collect my self-propelled vacuum cleaner.
To my surprise, the Roomba was nowhere to be found. There was, however, an overturned plant that seemed to have deliberately flung itself from its stand onto my new cork floors – soil down, of course.
After a little investigative work, I found the culprit: a very bad Roomba covered in dirt, leaves and a ceramic pot.
My own Little Shop of Horrors.
Note to Roomba users: keep long dangly plants away from robots.
RELATED: A Dingo Ate my Roomba!
There I was presenting a Webinar while simultaneously vacuuming a spare room, feeling good about my work/life balance.
Following the Webinar – as any good housekeeper would do – I went to collect my self-propelled vacuum cleaner.
To my surprise, the Roomba was nowhere to be found. There was, however, an overturned plant that seemed to have deliberately flung itself from its stand onto my new cork floors – soil down, of course.
After a little investigative work, I found the culprit: a very bad Roomba covered in dirt, leaves and a ceramic pot.
My own Little Shop of Horrors.
Note to Roomba users: keep long dangly plants away from robots.
RELATED: A Dingo Ate my Roomba!
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Julie Jacobson, Editor-at-large, CE Pro
Julie Jacobson is co-founder of EH Publishing and currently spends most of her time writing for CE Pro, mostly in the areas of home automation, networked A/V and the business of home systems integration. She majored in Economics at the University of Michigan, earned an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin, and has never taken a journalism class in her life. Julie is a washed-up Ultimate Frisbee player with the scars to prove it. Follow her on Twitter @juliejacobson.
6 Comments (displayed in order by date/time)
See, I told you those things were evil.
This is how Terminator started. First the appliances rebel and then the computers launch the missles…
Apparently, you keep your house too clean.
Roomba didn’t have anything to do, so it made some work to keep itself busy.
I was thinking “what does this article have to do with CE Pro and the AV world?” and then I realized: You can always blame the programmer!
This topic was dealt with in Michael Crichton’s 1984 film “Runaway”:
I had to Roombafy my office too. I named mine Juanita and she has a serious appetite for any wires that I have on the floor.
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Ha! The first robot that has real feelings! It was just upset because it had to clean up after that Windows 7 launch party!