Roomba

Roomba is a robot for home floor cleaning product from iRobot since 2002. In February 2011, the iRobot CEO Colin Angle said that have been sold worldwide over 6 million iRobot home robots.

Features
The robot has the shape of a disc with a diameter of 34 cm and 9 cm high. Calculate your route using an algorithm that processes data from sensors placed on the bumper and other IR sensors. The cleaning system is constituted by three brushes and a suction unit.The robot is powered by a NiMH battery with charging times ranging from 12 hours (in the first generation of robots and a battery life of up to 1.5 hours) and 3 hours (from the second onwards, for an autonomy maximum of 2 hours - in the fourth generation, the 700 series, there was a further increase of the autonomy> = 50%). So far we have produced four generations of Roomba.In the first generation it was necessary to indicate by means of the buttons, the size of the room to clean in subsequent generations of the robot, the calculation of the size of the room is done automatically, and the three buttons have been grouped into a single button called CLEAN.

Trivia

 * Is the easiest robot to hack both in terms of hardware and in those of software.