They’ve started putting arms onto robot vacuums, so we’re closer to either getting our own R2D2 or being strangled in our sleep


I was an early adopter of the Roomba back in the early 2000s. It sucked, and not in the way it was supposed to suck: up dirt.

The first Roomba barely picked up anything. It bumped into everything else. It couldn’t find its charging station. It was deafeningly loud. Cleaning its undercarriage took more time than it would have taken to just run a vacuum around the house myself.

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