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Is the Roomba a fad or the next reality?
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| Fad | 57% | 378 votes | Total: 658 votes | |
| Reality | 43% | 280 votes |
Fad
by Charles Johnson
Created on: February 27, 2010
I had a Roomba and it did clean when it was able to run in a open area. The Roomba is a great way to clean open spaces where there isn't a lot of things to make it stop. The main thing I did not like was having to move things so itcould be used. It was a great fad when it first came on the market and I knew I had to have one as soon as I could buy it. Sometimes a fad will grab a lot of people at first and then it will slowly loose the appeal. People will love talking to their friends about how it cleans their house when they aren't home. I can still remember talking to my Friends about the Roomba and they would laugh and tell me they would never buy one.
Most of the time I would never buy anything because someone would know something. After I saw the little vac for sale on Home Shopping Club, I wanted to be the first in my group to buy a Roomba. Any time Ibought something that I thought everyone I knew would also buy the same thing. Not only did none of my friends buy the little battery powered vac, they laughed at me because I bought one. I will say there was a lot of them sold, but it was at lease five years before I met anyone who had bought oneof them. After I talked to that person they told me they had never met another person who had bought a Roomba. They also thoughtit was going to be best time saving they had ever bought. I was now wondering how people does it take for the latest fad to really work .
As time went on I started to meet more people who had bought a Roombaon the Home Shopping Club about the same time as I did . Almost everyone had a story to tell about their Roomba and why they wouldnever buy another one. When one of the people I met had one with a broken part so it would not work. I decided at that time I would give them the Roomba I had because it had not used it since the batteries went bad .
I saw them for sale on television againa few weeks ago and I was sure I was not going to buy one. I understand they charge their self and they also do a few other things. I doubt if they will become the next big fad just because on television things always work better. It has been a year since I saw the ad for the Roomba and I never met anyone who has bought one. There may be a there may be a certain area where everyone thinks it is the latest fad, because someone is still buying them some place.
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Reality
by Trish Austin
Created on: February 20, 2009 Last Updated: March 04, 2009
Roomba is the next reality. In fact, Roomba is an example of the next reality happening, now. iRobot, the company behind Roombas, have been making the Roomba vacuum cleaners for years. iRobot was founded in 1990. Today, iRobot has grown to a 307 million dollar public company. They employ more than 400 of the robotic industry's finest professionals.
iRobot 's home robots have and are revolutionizing the way people clean. Inside the home, the Roomba floor cleaner vacuuming has sold more than 2 million worldwide. In addition, to the vacuum cleaners, they have the iRobot Scooba a floor washing robot. Then, there's iRobot Dirt Dog shop sweeping vacuum for garages, the iRobot Verro pool cleaning robot and the iRobot Looj gutter cleaning robot.
What is truly amazing about the company is not just the way they are changing the way people clean their homes. The iRobot company produced for robots for the government. These robots protect people from having to be harmed or even killed. These combat proven robots perform multiple missions. At least 2000 iRobot PackBot tactical mobile robots have been delivered to military and civil defense forces worldwide. These amazing robots perform thousands of dangerous search, reconnaissance and bomb disposal missions. These missions keep troops from getting hurt or killed.
iRobot's line of government and industrial robots includes the iRobot negotiator, an affordable surveillance robot for public safety professionals, and the iRobot Warrior, a large and rugged robot designed to carry 150 pound payloads. iRobot is a major player in the U.S. Army's Future Comabat Systems, they are developing a next generation, Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle. Lastly, there's the Seaglider and Ranger, iRobot's Unmanned Underwater Vehicles that perform a variety of missions for researchers and military planners.
Then, there's iRobot 2.0 robot intelligence software. This software enables third-party developers with the plans for developing the networked, behavior based robot applications. The Robot Developer's Kit, a set of hardware tools, is designed to give developer's a head start in creating advanced payloads and capabilities for all iRobot platforms. Then, there's even the iRobot Packbot with ICx Fido Explosives Detection Kit, an advanced security solution that identifies explosive vapors, is just one way iRobot has created successful third party development partnership.
Finally, Roomba clearly is not a fad. Every year iRobot comes out with a new type of floor cleaner and or an improved model of the year's previous. The fact that they are creating advanced robotics that the government uses only further evidence that Roomba is not a fad. This company is paving the way for robotics. The Roomba vacuums and the other cleaners will only get better every year. Then, who knows what they may introduce in years to come to the public. Robotics is the next reality, and Roomba vacuums are only a glimmer of the next reality .
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