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iRobot

Things that I find incredibly charming about our little robot vacuum cleaner.

• It makes a happy little beeping noise when you call it to work.
  
• It has a remote control.
  
• It bumps gently into things and then goes around them.
  
• It goes under the bed and the table and the couches and cleans all those places we just never manage to vacuum.
  
• It got stuck under one of the lowest bar of our dining chairs one time and had to be rescued.
  
• If you shut it in the bathroom it does an awesome job of cleaning up all the fluff. You have to shut it in or it'll wander back out again.
  
• You can set it to 'spot' clean and it will go in and out in circles to clean that one area.
  
• You can drive it with the remote, so if it gets stuck in an endless three point turn like it did the other night when we were showing it off to Lee's parents, you can save it and bring it back to a big area.
  
• It's quieter than a big vacuum cleaner.
  
• When you drive it in front of its home base it puts itself away.
  
• When it is docked again it does a triumphant little beepy fanfare.
  
• Last, but not least, it actually does a really good job on the carpets and floors.
  

PoF: grey
CO: robot vacuum cleaner