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Roomba Celebrates 10 Years of Cleaning Up After You

Posted by samzenpus on from the most-of-the-world-is-carpeted-and-one-day-we-will-do-the-cleaning dept.

SkinnyGuy writes "Roomba, the world’s first multi-million unit-selling home-helper robot, turns 10 today. iRobot has cooked up a self-congratulatory infographic filled with a collection of interesting and occasionally bizarre facts to mark the occasion. Did you know that dogs, cats and babies have ridden iRobot's iconic home cleaning robot since it was introduced exactly a decade ago?"

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  1. Re:Nice, if the batteries would last by JoeMerchant · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The batteries are cheaper than a maid, and more thorough for those things it does.

    A pain to keep running (hair wraps on spinning bits), but still less work than sweeping it yourself - transforms a long boring daily task into a much shorter one with intermittent tech skills required: Google search "WTF does two beeps mean on a Roomba", ah: get screwdriver, remove edge sweeper, cut away hair wrapped on hex shaft, replace, good to go for another 50 uses.

  2. Re:Waaay to much money for those things by Jeng · · Score: 3, Interesting

    By the time the salesman left it wasn't us that was worn out, it was him. He must have been there 5 hours and we paid a fraction of the original price.

    The Kirby is a really good product, but I do agree the way they are sold is not very good.

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