If You Had a Robot, Would You Want it to Suck or Blow?

We just bought one of those iRobot Roomba things that cleans the floor for you. What's next, a pill that turns into a roast-beef dinner when you pour a drop of water on it?

To think that it is now possible to buy a "robot" that actually does something useful! I hear iRobot's next product will be a Prime Ministeroomba.

I was sceptical about the concept of a totally automatic vacuum cleaner robot at first but this does actually seem to work, not to mention the added value my kids get by following it around and patting it. It's appearance is a bit dissappointing, no mechanical claw arms or red glowing eyes and not on single laser-phasor-plasma-deathray thing and the bugger hasn't said 'exterminate' once since we turned it on but I suppose you can't have everything.

A robot vacuum cleaner - my, how times have changed; I can remember when we used to sprinkle bits of bacon on the floor and let the dog lick the carpet.