10 Reasons Why you Need a Robot Vacuum Cleaner

The Roomba Robot vacuum cleaner by iRobot Corporation is an innovative unit that will vacuum clean your house.

When you think of robots, probably the ones that you think of are the extremely dangerous car manufacturing types with wires and pipes all over the place moving quickly and something you definitely don't want to go near. The Roomba is not like that at all; it's a friendly little unit that is perfectly safe around pets and children (it's probably in more danger from the children!).

One of the best features of the Roomba is that it makes the job of vacuuming simple and it is really as simple as pushing a button. Everything else, apart from emptying the dirt bin and the occasional clean, is taken care of. It can even recharge itself by returning to the charging station (It uses sensors to find its way back!).

iRobot released the Roomba consumer robot using their expertise in building military robots which they have developed for many different tasks including:

• Surveillance / Reconnaissance
• Bomb Disposal
• Explosives Detection

There's even a remote controlled jeep equipped with full steering and a camera system so they know how to use technology to get the job done! They have transferred some of this knowledge into making useful household robots; the robot vacuum cleaner and the robot pool cleaner.

Although the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner is a complex unit it is simple to use; just put it in the center of the room and push a button and it will get to work.

10 Reasons to Use a Roomba

1. It does the vacuuming!

The Roomba is a self contained floor cleaner robot. Each Roomba vacuum has a built in computer giving it the ability to navigate any room and completely vacuum the floor.

2. It can clean the entire room without supervision.

The built in computer uses bump sensors to navigate it's way around a room (these are gentle enough not to damage any furniture). As well as this it uses a random direction algorithm that means the robot will not miss any areas of carpet ensuring a good clean.

3. It can clean under furniture (it's only 3inches high).

It's small enough to fit under furniture where you can not vacuum with a normal upright cleaner.

4. You can schedule cleaning at different times (up to seven programs).

If you use the 4230 Roomba Scheduler version it has a build in scheduler unit. With this you can program Roomba to clean the house whenever you want it to and because it has seven programs you can program it not to wake you up on Saturday or Sunday!

5. It cleans the floor at least four times.

The robot uses some simple algorithms to find it's way around rooms it also has a bit of randomness thrown in which is a good thing since it means that the robot can never get stuck covering the same area endlessly.

6. It can intelligently clean dirtier areas.

Built in noise sensors can detect when there is a lot of mess to clean up so the Roomba robotic vacuum will stop moving away and concentrate on that dirtier area for a while.

7. It can clean right up to the edge at the wall automatically.

Although it is round it has an external brush that means it can clean right up to the wall edges and into corners.

8. It's much smaller than an upright vacuum so its easier to store.

Since it is only 3" by 14" it is smaller than any standard upright vacuum and you can store it out of sight by putting it's charging station in a convenient place (or you can hang it on a wall bracket).

9. You don't need to remember to re-charge it.

Using Infrared sensors it can find it's way back to the charging station all by itself so it will re-charge itself ready for the next vacuuming job.

10. It won't get stuck cleaning different floor types.

Built in sensors in the Roomba detect the type of surface so it can self adjust for hard floor or carpets easily so it won't get stuck cleaning any of your rooms.

Find out more about the Roomba Vacuum Cleaner.