Papercraft: Hal 9000 and Roomba 562 Pet Series Mashup

admin — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:57:29 +0000

In the first of what I hope to be a series, we are releasing a custom robot vacuum cleaner papercraft. This time we’ve chosen to do a mashup of the iRobot Roomba 562 Pet Series and our favorite homicidal artificial intelligence, the HAL 9000 from 2001 A Space Odyssey. Click here to download the papercraft. Looking for information iRobot Roombas? Don’t miss our page on Roomba Models.

Roomba Pet Series 532 and 562 Features

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 04:15:56 +0000

There is a new iRobot Roomba on the block. It’s the 532 Pet Series Roomba. As the name would imply, the pet series robot vacuum cleaners are for pet owners. So people with cats and dogs, and the kinds of uniquely canine and feline messes. Cat food, kitty litter, dust bunnies made of hair. Short hair, long hair, and sticky hair. The nice thing with the robot is that you can vacuum every day and keep on top of it. Most obviously, they are designed to pick up pet hair and also the allergens that pet owners face. The iRobot Roomba 562 is designed to clean up to four regular-sized rooms before it needs to charge. Like all other Roombas, it can get into hard-to-reach areas. It comes with two virtual lighthouses and two cleaning bins which can be used in place of one another. One of the bins is a vacuuming bin. The other is a high capacity sweeper bin. As the name would suggest, the high-capacity bin is for heavy duty cleaning in especially hairy areas. Here are some of the features of the Roomba 562 robot vacuum cleaner:

Comes with two virtual wall lighthouses
Rechargeable Battery
Self-Charging Home Base
Two Brush Cleaning Tools
Extra Set of Brushes
Vacuuming Debris Bin
Sweeping Bin is High Capacity
Two Extra Filters
Has three Cleaning Modes
Covered by a Two Year Warranty
3 Hour Charge Power Supply

The Roomba 562 is one of the iRobot robot vacuum cleaners that is able to charge itself in three hours (the charge time for most of the others is seven.)

Like all the iRobot products, the Rhoomba robot vacuum cleaner 562 will avoid cliffs and detect dirt. Here is a feature list for this robot vacuum. (See here for our guide to the Roomba Features.)

Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
Warranty: 2 year
Charging Time: 3 Hours
Detects Dirt: Yes
Spot Mode: No
Max Mode: No
Self-Charging Home Base Compatible: Yes
On-Board Scheduling: Yes
Voice Demonstration: No
Light-Touch Bumpers: No
Advanced Anti-Tangle Technology: Yes
Improved Edge and Corner Cleaning: Yes
Room-to-Room Navigation: No
High Capacity Bin: No
Easier Maintenance: No
Wireless Control: Yes
Lighthouse Technology: Yes
Virtual Walls Included: 0
Lighthouses Included: 2
Wireless Command Center Included: No
Extra Brushes: Yes
Carrying Case: No
Extra Filters Included: Yes
Bonus Accessory Kit: No

The iRobot Roomba 532 is just like the Roomba 562 except for the following:

No On-Board Scheduling
No Wireless Control
No Lighthouse Technology
Virtual Walls Included: 2
Lighthouses Included: 0

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Papercraft: Hal 9000 and Roomba 562 Pet Series Mashup

Roomba Pet Series 532 and 562 Features