- When Roomba is done with a room, and cannot find it’s charging base, how about it parks near a virtual wall instead of just dying under a bed?
- How about adding a photocell, and when Roomba cannot find a base or virtual wall, at least it parks where light is falling on it? This combined with #3 could create “clean at night” & “clean during the day” modes.
- Make the front wheel swivel – there’s already a few reports of that non-swiveling wheel scratching floors. Ball roller.
- Make a continuous clean mode – clean, go back to charger, when charged clean again and so on. With a large house and multiple chargers, why not have the little sucker run all the time?
- A heavier base would keep Roomba from moving the charging base around when trying to dock.
- Making the base also a virtual wall (say, shooting to both sides) would add little cost, and convenient functionality.
- A magnetic bar on the front of the unit would keep it from digesting screws, tacks and other dangerous items.
- How about a “abort and go back to base” function on the remote – we often set Roomba loose, but need to curtail its run.
- Make it quieter – it doesn’t have to be silent, just quiet enough to stand with the TV on.
- If you can make it bump into things more quietly, all the better. Right now when it hits something it sounds like it’s really clobbering it.
- Why not include an inexpensive sheet of stickers – eyes, noses, mouths, etc. to personalize with? Kind of corny, yes, but also fun.
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