roomba

plural roombas · alternative Roomba

1. uncommongenericized trademarkA robotic vacuum cleaner.

   Roomba companies after inventing Chloe: It's real free estate

   2021 December 15, u/Acrzyguy, “New cleaner on the job”, in Reddit, r/Hololive, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025

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   But a roomba is really an independent actor and we already see problems with it (roomba companies collecting apartment layout data, pets feeling strong competition, people feeling rather helpless if a roomba doesn't clean some place or gets itself constantly stuck on rugs etc). Sure they are not big problems, but roombas aren't really big independent actors either.

   2019 November 2, rehasu, “Human-controlled robots shown to make manufacturing safer, more efficient”, in Hacker News, archived from the original on 09 Oct 2025

   That's so cute... I feel like roomba companies should start implementing cute AIs in the robots that bark or so cute stuff, their sales would skyrocket

   2019 December 3, @Velinxi, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025

   I have an offbrand roomba too, you don't need to actually have the roomba brand in this case; the off brands work just as well sometimes better

   2023 August 8, @hollowearthterf, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025

   i used to have an actual roomba - okay no, not a roomba brand roomba but one of those things. and now im just imagining making it and still using it as my regular floor cleaning robot

   2024 April 13, @radbeetle, Twitter, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2025

plural Roombas

1. Alternative letter-case form of roomba.