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 =====Roomba - The Robot vacuum cleaner experience=====
 ====What is that thing?====
-Roomba 560 from [[http://www.irobot.com|iRobot]] is a vacuumcleaning robot.\\
+Roomba 560 from [[http://www.irobot.com|iRobot]] is a vacuumcleaning robot. It is one of the cheapest on the market, because it is created by a company that normally makes military robots such as bomb or mine neutralisers and who therefore only needed to develop a vacuum cleaner, as opposed to those vacuum cleaning robots created by companies normally making vacuum cleaners, who had to develop a robot and robotic system, which is by far more complicated. It has done well various tests, and is rated especially worth while because of its lower price.\\
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-Here it is seen running.\\
+Here it is seen running. It either runs by following a wall, or by randomly criss-crossing the room. This may not seem very practical, and it is certainly not the way you would clean the floors, but it is thorough enough as it runs for a relatively long time (approximately 45 minutes per room) and the random-algorithm makes sure it cleans all areas (at least over a couple of times).\\
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+We have found that running the cleaning robot every day reduces the amount of dust and dirt being swished into the air by us and landing on furniture significantly, and hence we only need to dust off our rooms once a month.
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-And here it is seen "sleeping" in its docking station. The orange light shows that it is recharging its battery. The robot is controlled via its top panel. Remotes are also available.
+Here Roomba is seen "sleeping" in its docking station. The orange light shows that it is recharging its battery. This takes approximately 30 minutes. The robot is controlled via the buttons on its top panel. Remotes are also available.