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by oldbbsnickname 974 days ago
Mine are named Trouble (S9+) and Mayhem (m6). They're dressed in vinyl wraps to be less boring.
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I call mine Cletus, because it ain't the smartest tool in the shed. At least once every run I have to kick it out from under it's nemesis...my living room chair. Where it has been bumping into the legs for 20m.
As a slack-jawed yokel, I feel personally attacked.
We inbred southern bumpkins have no ill will towards our slack-jawed fellows.
Most folk’ll never lose a toe but then again some folk’ll …
The LiDAR mapping ones make all the difference.

Our random mapping one was such a frustrating piece of garbage it was just thrown into the closet after a few weeks. My Wyze lidar one is amazing - you can even just yank it off the floor, set it somewhere else, and when you resume it’ll go right back to where it left off and continue.

I know it uploads the generated map to the cloud, but I don’t really care because it keeps my upstairs clean without me lifting a finger.

Mine is named... whatever my 4yo daughter insists on calling it this month.

I was completely surprised to see the robot vacuum get more affection from my kids than all their toys, and even our cat.

Mine was renamed "bobot", because my 2 year old struggled with the word "robot".
Years ago, my daughter named our Roomba "Puck" because it looks like a giant hockey puck. I liked the double-meaning of it also being the name of the European trickster-fairy (aka "Robin Goodfellow") and so have stuck with it.
Our 4y/o named ours Circle Cat
It only takes a single look at a Neato Botvac returning to its base station[1] to understand why we named it... Mr. Wigglebutt/

[1] for instance: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERPRf7SsfvY

Mine that works well is named "Houseboy"

The one that behaves really poorly has been through a series of names from "Ceiling" (because I thought it'd be funny to see a notification telling me that Ceiling is stuck and ended its job), to Hessalam ("Last Chance" from wheel of time) and is currently named "Chaos Monkey". I hate that damn thing.

If I had one, I'd name it "Sick 'em" (like Ralph Nader named his dog).
I just have the one, and we named him Pablo.

Named after the old labrador of one of my previous neighbours.

Roomba since 2004.

He's always been called "James" (as if he's our butler)

Mine is named Rooby (j7+). Quite good for German Shepherd hair.
Ike

Ike-a-roomba!