All the stories tagged with roomba
Goomba and other Nintendo icons rock your iRobot vacuum cleaner
11/14/2012, Are you looking for a fun way to spruce up the housekeeping chores in your home, especially so when you own the iRobot vacuum cleaner? At the Super iam8bit art exhibition, it seems that the iRobot vacuum cleaner has received [...]
Roomba 650 and Looj 300 cleaning robots launched by iRobot
08/14/2012, iRobot has just launched two new cleaning robots. You may already be familiar with the Roomba family of vacuum robots which is getting a new addition with the Roomba 650, Roomba 630 and Roomba 620. With this new series 600, [...]
Roomba reincarnated to be Oscar the telepresence robot
08/01/2012, This particular Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner is not exactly the in thing at the moment, but you know the proverb – waste not, want not. What do you do with a partially destroyed Roomba? Why, the answer would be to [...]
Cocorobo; Sharp’s Talking Vacuum Cleaner Has Different Moods
05/08/2012, Sharp has made a vacuum cleaner that roams about a room going about its business and once it is done it settles into its little charging dock to regain its energy. The Cocorobo which looks very much like the Roomba [...]
Kinect hack gives you magic powers over Roomba
02/14/2011, The Microsoft Kinect has proven itself to be more than a gaming tool that is to be enjoyed by millions in the world over, as enthusiasts have taken the Kinect to do so much more. One of the latest (and [...]
Pac-Mac goes Roomba
01/12/2011, Now here is a pretty unique idea for those who have a software that you want to showcase – why not find a way to infuse it with video game classics? For instance, this Unmanned Aerial System software that is [...]
iRobot introduces the Scooba 230 and Roomba 700 series
01/03/2011, If you think that iRobot offers you the perfect tools to keep your house clean, you’ll be happy to hear that the company is back again with its Scooba 230, a nice little robot cleaner that maintains the same 3.5-inch [...]
iRobot Corporation patents intelligent navigation system for Roombas
09/30/2010, The Roomba was deemed to be a whole lot more intelligent compared to a “dumb” vacuum cleaner that required human hands to lead the machine along the floor of your home, sucking up evil dust bunnies in the process. Well, [...]
Roomba Pac-Man Picks Up Trash and Swallows Ghosts
09/24/2010, Roomba cleaning robots have a new purpose in life as some engineers have re-purposed a number of Roombas into Pac-Mans and ghosts, to play on a larger scale board using military grade Unmanned Aerial System software to control the robotic [...]
QuadDrive Roomba Robot Runs On Roombas
06/18/2010, Want an easy solution to allow your homemade robot to navigate around the house? Why don’t you just bolt a few Roomba robot vacuums together and let them navigate around your house? That’s what the folks over at the University [...]
Asus Robotic Vacuum Cleaner
12/22/2009, Will robotic vacuum cleaners take off like how netbooks became popular overnight? Probably not quite as fast, but robotic vacuum cleaners like the Roomba have been popular for some time now, and it seems that Asus wants to get in [...]
Here comes Neato XV-11, the Roomba killer
12/16/2009, There’s a new vacuum robot in Silicon Valley: Neato has officially launched and it aims at grabbing the top spot from Roomba, the current champion in the robotic vacuum category. To take on Roomba, Neato is said to solve old [...]
U290 Bagless Robot Cleaner
07/29/2009, Just before you jump out of your seat and scream, “Roomba clone!”, the U290 Bagless Robot Cleaner does try to be different in some ways. For instance, it comes in a striking red color, featuring an automatic recharging and self-adjusting [...]
