What Makes the Roomba Floor vac Work?

The Roomba Floor vac, manufactured by the iRobot company, operates on the same technology as the military minesweepers. Electronic sensors help it to search out the dust and dirt by working a room in a specific pattern until the entire floor is covered and cleaned. The invention of the Roomba vacuum cleaner has made life a lot easier when it comes to housework. Now you can sit back and relax or take care of some other chore while the robotic vacuum is doing the floor.

Roombas Know Where to Clean

If you have stairs or a step down area the Roomba floorvac will avoid them, again by using the sensors. This prevents it from falling down a flight of stairs or off of a balcony. As it moves across the floor, the robot emits a signal that bounces off walls and searches for holes. Once it doesn't receive a signal back, it knows that there are stairs there and will stay clear of them.

How Do You Stop the Robot?

Once you start the robotic vacuum by selecting the size of the room you want to clean, or as in the case of the Roomba Pro Elite, a section of the room, it automatically stops when the job is done or when the battery starts to run low. The home base, which comes with the floorvac emits an infrared signal. Once the robot is finished it searches for this signal and follows it back to the base to recharge. Then it is always ready to clean at your command.

Accessories for the Roomba

There are also other products that you can buy to accessorize your robotic vacuum. These include a wall mount, filters, faster battery chargers and longer lasting batteries. They make perfect gifts for any occasion. There is plenty of info available to help you select the right model.

iRobot's® Roombas®

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iRobot® Roomba Vacuums
It looks like iRobot® has cleaned house and is now only manufacturing the following floor cleaning robots (Models 780, 770, 760, 560 and 530). Narrowing the selection makes it so much easier to choose the model that will work best as it appears they have weeded out the models that people were having so many problems with -- which is a good thing! Only the best of the best are available for sale from our online merchant and they also offer an unconditonal lifetime warranty!

Roomba® Pet Series
Spend more quality time with your pet - while Roomba® does the cleaning for you! The Pet Series was designed specifically for pet owners who are fighting the war on pet hair, debris and pet dander. This little hair ball sucker covers 3 to 4 rooms on a single battery charge depending on what model you buy. It's large debris bins, anti-tangle technology, and other pet friendly features will do the vacuuming for you and your household of pets.

iRobot® Scooba
The Scooba® floor washing robot does it all: it preps by sucking up loose dirt and crumbs, washes, scrubs, and cleans up after itself, leaving the floor sparkling and dry -- and it does it all in one pass. One of the Scooba's best features is the fact that it'll scrub every spot on your floor an average of four times, ensuring a thorough cleaning. It even gets up beneath the edges of kitchen cabinets and under tables to clean where normal cleaning tools don't. It's the only mop you'll ever need!