iRobot

Meet the latest addition to our household...

iRobot Corporation is an American technology company that designs and builds consumer robots. It was founded in 1990 by three members of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, who designed robots for space exploration and military defense.

Roomba is a series of autonomous robotic vacuum cleaners sold by iRobot.

Initially, I was unconvinced that this autonomous butler was worth the expenditure of our valuable Wi-Fi bandwidth.  Nevertheless, having observed it go about its duties following a search pattern similar to mowing the lawn it does seem to perform a decent job of cleaning the hardwood, area carpets (it struggles with the fringe) and the ceramic tile.

And it knows when to return to its docking station to automatically off-load the debris it collects and to periodically recharge before resuming its duties.

The dog seems to tolerate its presence with casual indifference.