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Robot Features

iRobot Roomba 400 Features

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iRobot’s Roomba 400 Series is the entry-level vacuum cleaning robot. While this unit is their most basic, and lacks some of the more advanced features of the newer robots, the 400 Series is still great at cleaning your floors. Here’s a list of the included features of the Roomba 400 vacuum:

  • Covered by a One Year Warranty
  • Battery Charger
  • Rechargeable Battery
  • Cleaning Tool
  • Vacuuming Debris Bin
  • Owner’s Guide and Documentation

iRobot Roomba 400The Roombas are designed to handle that most boring of household chores, sweeping your floors. All you have to do is carry the robot to the middle of your room and press the “clean” button in the center of the top of the robot. These vacuum cleaners automatically adjust their height to any floor surface, be it rugs, tile, carpeting, linoleum, or wood flooring. This assures that your floors get as clean as possible. Roombas are designed to figure out how large a room is and then adjust their vacuuming time to make sure that it covers the entire floor. Also built into the iRobot vacuums are sensors to keep the robot from falling down stairs and to sense when it bumps into things. This way it can safely navigate around your room and vacuum.

All of the iRobot Roomba vacuums use a three-stage cleaning system. A spinning brush on the left hand side of the vacuum scoops dirt and debris from hard to reach places like overhangs and corners. On the bottom of the vacuum are counter-rotating brushes that grab larger bits of debris, hair, pieces of grass or leaves, and of course dirt. Finally, the robot has a vacuum to suck up smaller pieces of dirt and dust.

Features of the iRobot Roomba 400

(Click here to see a page explaining all the iRobot vacuum cleaner features.)

  • Customer Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Warranty: 1 year
  • Charging Time: 7 Hours
  • Detects Dirt: No
  • Spot Mode: No
  • Max Mode: No
  • Self-Charging Home Base Compatible: Yes
  • On-Board Scheduling: No
  • Voice Demonstration: No
  • Light-Touch Bumpers: No
  • Advanced Anti-Tangle Technology: No
  • Improved Edge and Corner Cleaning: No
  • Room-to-Room Navigation: No
  • High Capacity Bin: No
  • Easier Maintenance: No
  • Wireless Control: No
  • Lighthouse Technology: No
  • Virtual Walls Included: 0
  • Lighthouses Included: 0
  • Wireless Command Center Included: No
  • Extra Brushes: No
  • Carrying Case: No
  • Extra Filters Included: No
  • Bonus Accessory Kit: No

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Papercraft

Papercraft: Hal 9000 and Roomba 562 Pet Series Mashup

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iRobot Roomba 562 HAL9000 Mashup

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.

iRobot Roomba 562 Hal 9000 Mashup

Robot Features

Roomba Pet Series 532 and 562 Features

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iRobot Roomba 562 Pet SeriesThere 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

iRobot Roomba 532
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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