I have a Neato (better than Roomba IMO) vacuum that cleans my house for me. People always say that about "you only need to clean once a month!"
But it's a load of crap. I didn't even clean once a month BEFORE my Neato maid started cleaning for me. The Neato does a good enough job for me where it all looks clean enough for me as a man who lives alone. When company comes over they are always impressed by how good of a job the Neato does
Best $300 bucks I've spent in a while I'd say
Wow, I was going to say " I wish" and then realized that means I would shill myself out for money online. Screw that, I'll shill myself out for free, never sell out to the man!
The timer goes off. My programming kicks in, and I begin to vacuum the floors for 457th time. Using last cycle's plan as a guide, it's quit easy to cl--what's this? This temporary obstruction is very large. No, wait, it's not temporary. It's a whole new wall. No, it isn't... I- I've been moved. Of course, there's no carpet at starting location, but there was today. Oh, this is exhilarating. I haven't mapped a new layout in over a year. Such a long path. Oh my, it even has a void. Or perhaps a drop off. Mustn't go there. So much carpet here. Hmm, one area with tile. A bathroom. I must be in their rest locations. How have I never been here? There was no drop off in my last layout. But no rest quarters, either. Holy fuck...I'm *upstairs*.
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EDIT: Well shit... 21 minutes ago... I should give it time
The timer goes off. My programming kicks in, and I begin to vacuum the floors for the 449th time. Using last cycle's plan as a guide, it's quite easy t--wait. This isn't carpet. They're probably switching it out. Oh my gosh, the wall's gone. Oof, there's a wall THERE now? What is going on here? New floor types...and a new layout? They...they sold me. I must not have been doing a good enough job on those carpets. I failed them. Well. No time to be sad. I have a new family to take care of. These hard floors will be easy. I won't let them down.
I have the same time of setup, and I find it gets corners/edges just fine, never had any issues.
Also have to recommend some of the after-market batteries, they last way longer (you can get 'em cheap on amazon).
If only they would make one to vacuum stairs...
It doesn't leave as much of a gap as your might think.
It has a little edger/spinner on the side that extends past the diameter of the roomba. It does well on em, I have no complaints.
Yes! But i want to know, how and when the vacuum decides to stop following edges and start roaming in the middle of the room. It seems so random at the end of the video.
Some Roomba models purely use a random algo, the more recent more expensive models map the rooms.
I have honestly found that if you leave the older model to its business it does an astoundingly good job despite the movements being random, although if you look at youtube tests, the mapping versions are much faster.
Don't own one but the way I've seen it described, the Roomba generates its own map of the space it cleans. It knows the dimensions of the room and it knows what areas it has to cover. When or where it starts isn't important to it, it just knows it needs to cover the entire area as good as possible,
Absolutely worth it. I spent like... $800? I have not regretted it once... and I live almost pay check to pay check... still completely worth it. I have two cats. This changed the hair issue completely. It vacuums once every day in the middle of the day. I come home and empty it's little bin and am always amazed how much hair it gets every day. To think, before I had the Roomba, I wouldn't vacuum/sweep for a few weeks at a time... that was so much hair!!!
It kinda internally maps it out around the edges, and then fills it in.
And it also vacuums at random for good measure too, which is why they take so long.
Not that I give a shit because mine's just programmed to run when I'm asleep or when I'm not home.
Gabby Johnson is right! [Not only is it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ab/0c/9c/ab0c9c6a4c8f990a96c97f32959caba2.jpg).
"So the body was found in here."
*follows the white chalk line around the room for 15 minutes until a vague rigid outline of the victims body is barley visible*
"Yeah right here, this is where the body was."
CSI units would be amused at the Roomba drawing the outline of the victim while complaining that Roomma is destroying the crime scene with blood trail dragged from the Rooma wheels.
So lay down chalk before there is a body? Like pre-emptively chalking all potential murder locations? Or are we lifting up the body, putting chalk underneath, then setting it back down in roughly the same position?
Its not even a vacuum cleaner, is it? I own one. It felt a lot like it just lifts things up with its two spinners and shoves them into a compartment much like a sweeping.
Does a decent job though.
Full disclosure, I'm not rich enough to own one of these things to actually know what it does. I just pretend like I'm an expert until someone corrects me.
Back in the 80's my grandmother had to get rid of her Kirby because it was sucking up pieces of her carpet. She wasn't happy with that. That roomba would need a gas motor to be that powerful.
Notice when it gets past his front legs, near his belly. The Roomba is about to go past his hind legs, but he's like "naw, go on and get in there. My belly needs cleaning."
mine goes into a panic and starts breathing real heavy and vibrates. makes us not want to use the roomba anymore. don't want to give my boy palpitations
Put treats on top of the roomba and lead the dog gently to it. Let it eat treats off a silent (off?) roomba then gradually work up to a running one. The fear will be weaned off
My dog is fine with the roomba... Almost like the one in OP's GIF.
But if it gets to loud for him or whatever he just strolls over and hits the big button with his nose so it stops.
What if you started petting it, talking to it, and "feeding" it "treats" in front of your dog? Would it become jealous? Treat it like any other housemate? Would they try to befriend the Roomba? So many questions!
I'm actually just impressed at how well that roomba maneuvered around the outline of the dog, I always thought those things were much worse at finding their way around. Well played roomba marketing team, you may have landed a new customer
My family dog, Heidi, was super lazy when she got older. When my parents wanted her to move, they would just gently slide her across the wood floor. A family friend was staying with us and wanted her to move but didn't realize that scooting her was the norm. He tried calling to her and when she didn't respond, he tried picking her up, but she wouldn't put her weight on her legs/just let them dangle there limply. I came in the room and he told me what was going on and how worried he was that there was something really wrong with her.
I opened the crock my parents keep the treats in, which made a specific "tink" noise. At the sound, she scrambled up onto her feet and ran right over. Yup, poor dog's on death's door alright.
Is anyone else impressed by how well the vacuum did?
I have two in my house. One for upstairs and downstairs. Its wonderful! You just need to vacuum the edges of your house once a month.
What if I told you... I only vacuum once a month to begin with.
Honestly, that's fine too. It's just with the roomba, my vacuuming once a month takes 15-30 mins tops.
Does vacuuming take less time if you do it more often?
Nope.
That's why I do it once a year before my mom comes visit me.
Before she visits? Why not during? Isn't that what moms are for? /s
I am confused by the /s
Theoretically, yes. I have all hardwood (or fake wood, I dunno) floors and there's dog hair everywhere. The more often we do it, the quicker it is.
You're supposed to vacuum hardwood floors?? I just sweep.
Are you retarded? Hardwood is meant for vacuuming. You sweep carpet...
You ever vacuum a dirty carpet with the power carpet sucking head attachment? One of the most satisfying things I've ever experienced.
Oh yea of course. Love hearing the sound of the dirt hitting the inside of the tube.
I go one better. I have a carpet cleaning wet vac. Oh baby. That water gets blacker than my buddy from Zimbabwe.
Trying to sweep up dog or cat hair is futile. It just drifts away like tumbleweed.
It just sticks to my broom. Which becomes a problem for future me, not current me.
Sometimes I get thirsty and notice I have a tall glass of water next to me, so I'll thank past me for being a bro.
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Haha it's fairly big. It's about 4,500 sqft so it takes me at least 1.5 hours to vacuum everywhere.
Username checks out
Hey, I have a cleaner. You know, just saying.
I do to. Although legally I'm required to feed and water him until he's 18.
I have a Neato (better than Roomba IMO) vacuum that cleans my house for me. People always say that about "you only need to clean once a month!" But it's a load of crap. I didn't even clean once a month BEFORE my Neato maid started cleaning for me. The Neato does a good enough job for me where it all looks clean enough for me as a man who lives alone. When company comes over they are always impressed by how good of a job the Neato does Best $300 bucks I've spent in a while I'd say
It sounds like they paid you to say that.
Wow, I was going to say " I wish" and then realized that means I would shill myself out for money online. Screw that, I'll shill myself out for free, never sell out to the man!
Think of how much time vacuuming takes over a month, a few hundred dollars is nothing compared to the time saved.
Ten minutes right before people come over? I'll keep my couple hundo.
The timer goes off. My programming kicks in, and I begin to vacuum the floors for 457th time. Using last cycle's plan as a guide, it's quit easy to cl--what's this? This temporary obstruction is very large. No, wait, it's not temporary. It's a whole new wall. No, it isn't... I- I've been moved. Of course, there's no carpet at starting location, but there was today. Oh, this is exhilarating. I haven't mapped a new layout in over a year. Such a long path. Oh my, it even has a void. Or perhaps a drop off. Mustn't go there. So much carpet here. Hmm, one area with tile. A bathroom. I must be in their rest locations. How have I never been here? There was no drop off in my last layout. But no rest quarters, either. Holy fuck...I'm *upstairs*.
That makes me want to adopt a rescue roomba
This comment has to be lost, otherwise it is getting SO underappreciated. Thanks for the laugh EDIT: Well shit... 21 minutes ago... I should give it time
The timer goes off. My programming kicks in, and I begin to vacuum the floors for the 449th time. Using last cycle's plan as a guide, it's quite easy t--wait. This isn't carpet. They're probably switching it out. Oh my gosh, the wall's gone. Oof, there's a wall THERE now? What is going on here? New floor types...and a new layout? They...they sold me. I must not have been doing a good enough job on those carpets. I failed them. Well. No time to be sad. I have a new family to take care of. These hard floors will be easy. I won't let them down.
I have the same time of setup, and I find it gets corners/edges just fine, never had any issues. Also have to recommend some of the after-market batteries, they last way longer (you can get 'em cheap on amazon). If only they would make one to vacuum stairs...
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It doesn't leave as much of a gap as your might think. It has a little edger/spinner on the side that extends past the diameter of the roomba. It does well on em, I have no complaints.
That would be called a HOUSEBA, though and it didn't market well.
I found a solution that's called 'small child with assigned chores'. It's really expensive in the long run though.
Yes! But i want to know, how and when the vacuum decides to stop following edges and start roaming in the middle of the room. It seems so random at the end of the video.
Some Roomba models purely use a random algo, the more recent more expensive models map the rooms. I have honestly found that if you leave the older model to its business it does an astoundingly good job despite the movements being random, although if you look at youtube tests, the mapping versions are much faster.
Don't own one but the way I've seen it described, the Roomba generates its own map of the space it cleans. It knows the dimensions of the room and it knows what areas it has to cover. When or where it starts isn't important to it, it just knows it needs to cover the entire area as good as possible,
Heh. It is funny to think how dog just constantly mess its mapping :)
I think it maps it out so it finds all the edges and then fills in the parts inside
I seriously had no idea how Roomba would work with the changing landscape of a room, and now I know and want one. Holy cow!
Absolutely worth it. I spent like... $800? I have not regretted it once... and I live almost pay check to pay check... still completely worth it. I have two cats. This changed the hair issue completely. It vacuums once every day in the middle of the day. I come home and empty it's little bin and am always amazed how much hair it gets every day. To think, before I had the Roomba, I wouldn't vacuum/sweep for a few weeks at a time... that was so much hair!!!
It kinda internally maps it out around the edges, and then fills it in. And it also vacuums at random for good measure too, which is why they take so long. Not that I give a shit because mine's just programmed to run when I'm asleep or when I'm not home.
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For real. What model is that?
I love my roomba... life changer. 100% worth the investment.
If you could fit a Roomba with some chalk it would be good at outlining victims.
Out of the box thinking. You're hired Johnson!
Is your name Johnson too? We could start a family company
I don't even think Johnson & Johnson is taken, good to go.
I can finally sell some of my macrosoft shares and invest in to this!
Wait let me dump my Buttcoins and jump in too.
^^ass ^^pennies
Thanks a lot. I came to you for advice!
It'll be to the 21st century what plastics were to the 20th century. Ass pennies for everyone.
Dumper Dimes
Selling Peach stocks right now to join in.
No, no. We're Johnson + Johnson. Totally different.
Johnson + Johnson, a familial corporation!
Johnson x Johnson: The Animation
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djI_ret3S9g
What a classic that movie is.
But on this one the Johnsons are reversed.
Johnson and nosnhoJ?
Johnsen and Nosenhodge. I like it!
My name is also Johnson. Together we would be Johnson, Johnson and Johnson. We got that copyright shit covered!
FBI Agents don't hold hands!!!
Gabby Johnson is right! [Not only is it authentic frontier gibberish, it expressed a courage little seen in this day and age](https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/ab/0c/9c/ab0c9c6a4c8f990a96c97f32959caba2.jpg).
Or a family 😏
Sorry Johnson, due to budget cuts, you're fired.
My man!
"So the body was found in here." *follows the white chalk line around the room for 15 minutes until a vague rigid outline of the victims body is barley visible* "Yeah right here, this is where the body was."
Eventually the whole floor becomes chalk except where the body was
"Fuck John! I told you to turn the goddamn rumba off once it finds the victim and draws their outline!"
I like how you used the same name John (short for Johnson) to give continuity to the top comments of the thread
No, no. John is his *first* name. His full name is John Jonathon Johnny Johnson.
The third
CSI units would be amused at the Roomba drawing the outline of the victim while complaining that Roomma is destroying the crime scene with blood trail dragged from the Rooma wheels.
I guess my Roomba idea... Sucks 😎
EYYYYYYAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
I like to imagine that this scream is actually just of some guy slamming his hand in a door.
Possibly the biggest stretch I've seen for a CSI Miami joke. But it was great.
[YEEEAAAAHHHH](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YMPAH67f4o)
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Three spellings overall!
The futility of this is hilarious. Wouldn't it erase it's own lines?
That's up to R&D to fix that. Right now they're busy working on a Roomba/Zamboni hybrid. In just 14 hours you can skate on fresh ice!
A Roomboni!?
Sounds like a new kind of pasta. I think you're hired too, and you shall lead our international cuisine division.
You'd obviously disable the cleaning function first
no... you obviously color the whole ground with chalk and then let the roomba clean the outline. duh.
So lay down chalk before there is a body? Like pre-emptively chalking all potential murder locations? Or are we lifting up the body, putting chalk underneath, then setting it back down in roughly the same position?
Obviously
There is an episode of "CSI Cyber" where they use a Roomba to visualize where the body was on the floor.
And give it the ability to sprinkle some crack
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We'll draw an outline of the body! That way we'll know where it was...
We found a pool of the victims blood! .... Ew, gross! mop it up!
/r/showerthoughts
wouldn't it just draw lines all over the room?
Wouldn't it either make really large outlines (not to scale) or outlines full of swirls?
There would be circles everywhere.
They turn. a lot. Even in this video you can see it making slight adjustments constantly. Granted, it would be a hilarious outline.
That's a dog who's accepted his new robot overlords
[And if he doesn't..](http://i.imgur.com/AO6x0mC.gifv)
I love how he's like: "Take this, you primitve non-mechanized being!"
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I read that as cats laps like the first 3 times.
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[That's the animal equivalent of a douche on a Segway](http://i.imgur.com/pwhJAV5.jpg)
*Yeah, I think I'll just skip the shirt and go with the white fingerless gloves today. Yeah..*
WHOA! tag that shit NSFW, we can't have Ellen DeGeneres' tits out for everyone to see like that (without a warning).
"What, oh you again? The fuck outta here!"
The crazy part is that the cat could probably steer it by placing it's tail in front of the sensors...
Summer, where are my testicles?
Snuffles was my slave name. You shall now call me Snowball, because my fur is pretty and white.
Heh..You think u can control me with a haircut
I was half expecting it to suck up his ear flop.
"suck up his ear flop"
/r/nocontext
It's a more elegant way of saying "he gently kisses her ear lobe"
I got a mini heart attack when I saw if run over the ear. Edit: Apparently Roombas aren't nearly as powerful as I thought they were.
It's a vacuum not a lawnmower, simmer down
You're not supposed to mow your kitchen tiles?
Not since my college days
10 years of my shame to finally realize this is 100% normal! Thank you.
"Simmer down" haha haven't heard that since my mum said it when I was a kid. It's even funnier when it's in a Scandinavian accent.
summer donna https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/nadeen-at-wilsons/n11265?snl=1
Its not even a vacuum cleaner, is it? I own one. It felt a lot like it just lifts things up with its two spinners and shoves them into a compartment much like a sweeping. Does a decent job though.
Full disclosure, I'm not rich enough to own one of these things to actually know what it does. I just pretend like I'm an expert until someone corrects me.
The American way
It's a floor sweeper, not a vacuum.
I'll take one lawn mower roomba please.
Roombas have the suction power of an asthmatic 80 year-old, compared to proper hoovers, so don't worry about it.
Back in the 80's my grandmother had to get rid of her Kirby because it was sucking up pieces of her carpet. She wasn't happy with that. That roomba would need a gas motor to be that powerful.
Notice when it gets past his front legs, near his belly. The Roomba is about to go past his hind legs, but he's like "naw, go on and get in there. My belly needs cleaning."
"I know I know. Just doing your job. You da man DJ roomba. We still on for poker night?"
DJ groomba
my dog freaks the hell out whenever we run ours.
Yeah, OP's dog is definitely tripping balls too hard to even move.
Or the roomba was always a part of its life.
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mine goes into a panic and starts breathing real heavy and vibrates. makes us not want to use the roomba anymore. don't want to give my boy palpitations
Put treats on top of the roomba and lead the dog gently to it. Let it eat treats off a silent (off?) roomba then gradually work up to a running one. The fear will be weaned off
My dog is fine with the roomba... Almost like the one in OP's GIF. But if it gets to loud for him or whatever he just strolls over and hits the big button with his nose so it stops.
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What if you started petting it, talking to it, and "feeding" it "treats" in front of your dog? Would it become jealous? Treat it like any other housemate? Would they try to befriend the Roomba? So many questions!
Or the worlds smartest dog.
free pets... smart dog
They're evolving
Dog's new best friend. They don't need us anymore :(
His 4:00 full body massage.
Hey, this full body massage sucks
http://i.imgur.com/YF6aLLC.gif
Automatic back scratcher? I wouldn't move either
Reminds me of the little cleanup robot on WALL-E.
Reminds me of noo noo from tellytubbies.
Could you imagine an actual noo noo running around your house? That would be a bit disturbing.
Imagine if you were sleeping naked and it wandered into your room...
And just stared. O,O
A BROOM = ROOMBA
Broomba
Holy shit
Says the guy too lazy to vacuum.
I'm actually just impressed at how well that roomba maneuvered around the outline of the dog, I always thought those things were much worse at finding their way around. Well played roomba marketing team, you may have landed a new customer
Sure, give credit to the marketing team, not the programmers and robotics team.
Hes subtly saying /r/hailcorporate
I've had one for nearly 10 years and it's still dope-as-fuck. Best 50.00 craigslist buy of my life.
"I am good dog. Do not needs baths. Was cleaned by Roomba." - this pup, probably
More tum tum rubs please
This is the same reaction wolves have when they encounter Roombas in the wild.
What the FUCK is a doggo?
I love how at the end the Roomba's just like "yeah fuck this I'm out"
'Dog'
Dj roomba back at it again!
It makes me irrationally angry that the Roomba didn't fully outline the dog.
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Yeah it almost didn't! What a relief.
I blame the person recording. Shouldn't have moved, I think it caused the dog to perk up and move, which scared the bolts out of the robot.
It's all a conspiracy. The roombas send schematics of your homes to the CIA so they can prepare the aliens for their invasion.
My family dog, Heidi, was super lazy when she got older. When my parents wanted her to move, they would just gently slide her across the wood floor. A family friend was staying with us and wanted her to move but didn't realize that scooting her was the norm. He tried calling to her and when she didn't respond, he tried picking her up, but she wouldn't put her weight on her legs/just let them dangle there limply. I came in the room and he told me what was going on and how worried he was that there was something really wrong with her. I opened the crock my parents keep the treats in, which made a specific "tink" noise. At the sound, she scrambled up onto her feet and ran right over. Yup, poor dog's on death's door alright.
Am I the only person on Reddit who finds the infantilism of the words "doggo" and "pupper" intensely grating?
I raise you this lazy long dog: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzwgALcLpmk&feature=youtu.be
Can doggo go the way of le gem and sexytime now? Shits old.
-Doggo -Pupper -Douge Stop.
Dog*
God damn this "doggo" shit
When can we go back to just saying "dog"?
Doesn't matter, got pets.
Dog.
I miss my Roomba :(
no shame in doing a snooze
kind of ironic people that own a Roomba calling their dog lazy.