[Damogran6]

I Bought 2.5-ish Roombas, maybe paid MSRP for one, and bought (and repaired) a couple of refurb units off Woot a decade or so ago.

It was an interesting exercise, and if our pet-load was a little lighter (I'd hate to see it get caught in Macaw Poop) I'd consider doing it again.

But.

They do wear and there was maintenance, and the batteries did lose capacity, and I eventually wandered away from them because there was a lot of labor in a labor saving device.

Maybe a mop for the trailer?

[whoisthemachine]

On the battery front - many of them are carrying lithium-ion batteries these days instead of the old nickel-metal hydride batteries that the older Roombas used, so their battery life is much better, until it's not.