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Our son gave us a Roomba as a gift recently. What an amazing gadget to vacuum to house. Even gets under the bed!
What has been your Roomba experience?
What has been your Roomba experience?
http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/review-roomba-560-vacuuming-robot-2010122/The Roomba vacuums range in price from $200 to $600, with the 560 being a mid-range model at $349. This gives the 560 a nice selection of features including 1-4 room coverage, scheduling, and automatic self-charging with an included dock. The kit includes virtual walls, but unlike more expensive models does not include room-to-room navigation. To get you’ll need to pick up a $40 virtual wall lighthouse for the doorway between each room (three rooms means you need two lighthouses). And by the way, if you are a pet owner you’ll want to consider the 562 pet edition which includes the high-capacity bin for all of those cat-hair-tumbleweeds under your couch.
The out-of-box experience with the Roomba borders on amazing. You open the box, take it out, put the Roomba on the floor and press the only button that makes sense: Clean. After that the Roomba starts cleaning, just as if it knew your house/apartment/office inside out.
The clever little bot scans its surroundings as well as the cleanliness of the floor and starts running lines across your apartment, slowing down as it approaches objects. One sensor prevents it from slamming into your furniture and the front-mounted bump sensor let’s the bot know when it has hit something that won’t move. This bump sensor allows the Roomba to stop when it hits something low and solid (like the foot of a table) but also to go through bed skirts and other objects that look solid but aren’t. This means it can get under a couch, table, or bed so long as it has about four inches of clearance.