My New Roomba 560

Until recently, our older, red Roomba was doing a great job keeping our floors clean (well, when we bothered to turn the little guy on). But then, one morning, I turned on the power and he played a sad song and shut off. The battery light immediately changed from green to red, despite having been charged overnight. Joel stopped by Sears to get us a replacement battery, but discovered that our warranty would actually be up in a month and upgrading could get us a new Roomba for only $150.00. Needless to say, he took the bait and came home with the new Roomba 560. As much as I loved the old Roomba, the new Roomba offers major improvements, like the following:

• Improved navigation and floor coverage
• Improved edge and corner cleaning
• Improved brushes and filters
• Improved anti-tangle technology (won’t get caught up on rug fringe and cords!)
• Schedule up to seven cleaning times
• Automatically returns to the self-charging Home Base™
• Most efficient room-to-room cleaning

This morning, as I was getting ready for work, the new Roomba woke up, played a happy song, then went straight work. (We scheduled it to do a weekly Tuesday morning clean). I can personally vouch that this Roomba does a much better job, based on the way the floor looks now. I watched as it rolled over my laptop cord twice, something that would have killed red Roomba, then it did some fancy spin and kept going. I walked out the door with the 560 still whirling away. Joel got up after me, but in time to see the thing backing itself back into the docking station. OMG, I love robots.