Learn English meaning of Roombas

I think it’s a wonderful idea to have this little robot to help you around with cleaning. There’s always to do sth around the house, so why not to have a little helper. And I like the name  of it. So let it roombas and I will be cha-cha-cha nearby:))

I have had roomba for six monthes. It is giving me a lot of helping. Roomba is working when I go to work everyday. I just need clean dust box when it works for 2 or 3 days. It gives me much time to do other things. If roomba works more quiet, I think it will better. It just work about 25 minutes for one group of battery. I hope it can work for more time.

Cleaning the house is sth very difficult,and there are people who don’t appreciate what women do,it’s a tiring work…removing dust,cleaning the toilet,the floor….etc it’s all a hard work,sometimes i feel like i hate doing that,but in some way ,it’s like my duty ,i’ve to do it i can’t escape,so this is how it goes! i don’t think i need Roombas!

Dear Shoba,

I hate to admit it, but it seems like some men see women as Roombas! Women are even better than Roombas, ‘cause unlike Roombas, women can remove away the dust piled up on the furniture, also can pick up the toys over the floor, and they won’t need to change battery that may be expensive, which are all considered flaws in Roombas as our dear Julito mentioned..

And not only wives, here our friend Mandzhi said his girlfriend does the cleaning for him. So Scienceboy, you have to take our dear friend Shoba’s suggestion into account xD 

I like cleaning, but i don’t do it often now, because usually my girlfriend does it. But sometimes i have a desire for doing it.
I want to have a Roomba, but i think it can’t clean so good as a man. Maybe when you have an empty room it can be clean well, if it is obstackles, robot will hit and always change dirrection, so it won’t clean good.
I saw one at my aunt’s house. She told me that it did not vacuum-clean good.

Haha, dear Shobai buying a wife? Where would I buy a wife? :) 

Hello dear Princesse,

You have raised a good question. If Roomba is good why is Brian’s friend giving it away? 

My best guess is Brian’s friend (if that friend is a male) is getting married and he doesn’t need it any longer. His wife will probably do the cleaning for him. Poor women! 

So my kind request to ScienceBoy is, instead of longing for a Roomba our ScienceBoy should think of buying  a wife. LOL. 

Now that Brian brought up the subject of  being offered a domestic robot  and was unable  to bring it back home, why he didn`t  ask his friend to  have it mailed to him covering himself the cost incurred? . Why i am saying this? then we could have had   a first hand information as to if it is as good as it is marketed. I wish that in the future Brian  would let us know the robot`s performance. 

I like cleaning! But If there were perfect robot to cleaning, I would prefer not to clean by myself!

I like robots, they are useful in industries and they can be useful in our home, robot is not like human, they can do one thing or more, so robots can do some work better than human.
Technological constraints and market barriers are obstacles to use robot widely in homes.

But I think Roombas looks like a toy! Therefore, it is useful for fun!

I don’t like cleaning per se, but I can’t stand the mess around me either that I have to do something about it. 

The idea of having a robot excites me, why not? I have to feel the outcomes of the technology, so it seems terrific to have such thing.

But talking about robots brings to my imagination that huge robot figure having metalic hands, legs and a cubic head, not a black round disc remains on the floor. But the idea of having a Roomba still appeals to me though as long as it will save me any effort cleaning. I just hope it really works well and get into the nooks and crannies as it’s expected. But why Brian’s friend would give it away! Oh! seems not that well after all.

Another engineering wonder on the market that supposedly will  vacuum for us ,but what the dust that is piling up on the furniture ,who is going to pick up the toys that are scatter on the floor. It is an expensive robot , the battery will need to be replaced and surely will have mechanical failures that will be costly to fix. Well, i am a little pesimist today. Why instead of buying a Roomba ,play on our IPOD a rumba while  going around the house doing the cleaning , a good workout and inexpensive.

Well, I don’t like cleaning. Not at all. So seems like Roomba is just like for me. Besides it would be cool to have a robot at home. I’d prefer Asimo but anyway.

@S&W, it’s a brilliant idea to do your exercise while cleaning. I liked that.

I think cleaning is exhausting process for everybody,especially when there are noisy kids throwing things around  and you have to pick up everything .Sure, I d like to have some machine doing huge work instead of you  but ,anyway,if you see  an outcome of your productive activity, any work ,even a tiring,becomes a pleasure.So  sometimes I like cleaning.

Cleaning without lifting a finger (other than to press the button) sounds attractive to me.

But the biggest question is, will Roomba really meet my expectations and clean the way I would like to?!?

We have a nice saying like this in Tamil, “If you want a work to be done to your liking, just do it yourself!” 

I do not like cleaning, but in the same time I don’t think so that robort will do it better for me. I tottally agree with Marni old fashioned way it’s the good one.

Yes,i like cleaning and i treat cleaning as exercise in this way cleaning had never become a burden to me.I want to see how a roomba work. I have a doubt that a roomba can get in nooks and crannies.But i like Brain’s idea of putting speaker on the top of roomba while it cleaning with music and what i am going to do is lying on my bed ,enjoying music and watching roomba work.

I once saw something like a roomba in a Chinese commecial. And it’s really a sham. When people really get to use it, it just doesn’t work as promised. It’s not really as smart as the robots you would see in movies or sci-fi. It just kind of sucks.