iRobot is pretty sure its new Roomba won't smear dog poop all over your house
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Bad robot! Bad!
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And to be clear, as described by one victim, we're talking about an absolute disaster when this does happen. It will be on your floorboards. It will be on your furniture legs. It will be on your carpets. It will be on your rugs. It will be on your kids' toy boxes. If it's near the floor, it will have poop on it. Those awesome wheels, which have a checkered surface for better traction, left 25-foot poop trails all over the house.That it took this long for an internet-connected vacuum to finally recognize and avoid poop speaks volumes to the janky internet-of-things world we all find ourselves living in and iRobot's CEO isn't shy about admitting it. "Smart home products often fail to live up to consumer expectations when they lack context of the home, cannot learn independently and require complex programming for basic functionality," explained Colin Angle in the Roomba j7 press release. SEE ALSO: Jack Dorsey says what we're all thinking: Throwing things at Mark Zuckerberg looks funMaybe, just maybe, the latest addition from iRobot will start to turn that around. And hey, if not, at least the company will replace your gunked-up Roomba, free of charge.
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