May 9 2009Kill It!: How A Roomba Cleans A Room
This is the path a Roomba took to clean a room. As you can see, it's pretty haphazard. But what did you expect -- it's just a stupid robot. Honestly, I'm surprised the little deviant didn't spend the whole time pleasuring itself in the corner by repeatedly running over a power cord.
The shot was taken by shutting off all the lights in the room for 30 minutes and taking a long exposure of the path the Roomba took while cleaning up.
While I despise all things robotic, I've got to admit -- whoever took the pic must have balls of triple platinum. Leaving a robot alone in a dark room for a half hour? That's crazy talk.
Long-Exposure Shot of a Roomba's Path Shows Beautifully Organized Chaos [gizmodo]
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Reader Comments
1. Oodles of Coodles - May 9, 2009 11:05 AM
First!
2. ramastar - May 9, 2009 11:11 AM
2nd!!?
3. firstgold - May 9, 2009 11:11 AM
3rd?
4. OMG - May 9, 2009 11:12 AM
3rd
5. Ace - May 9, 2009 11:12 AM
I need one!!
6. Name (required): - May 9, 2009 11:13 AM
What satisfaction do you get from posting "First!", "Second!", etc?
Seriously...Please tell me.
7. marijuana bob and the f'ed up schematics - May 9, 2009 11:15 AM
@ 6...we like it. shut ur face. 7th!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
8. Gerinych - May 9, 2009 11:30 AM
Is it just a coincidence that my robot's doing circles in my room right now?
9. JK - May 9, 2009 11:31 AM
@ 1-3 and 7 you all suck ass
@ 4 Epic Fail
10. Elboroto - May 9, 2009 11:35 AM
Inside each Roomba there is midget trying to recreate the map from "The Time Bandits" so they can take over the world... while cleaning your room from dust and crumbs!
Sorta like the Seti@home, but with time travel and midgets and crumbs. Cookie Crumbs!
11. aznterrorist - May 9, 2009 11:40 AM
I think I found direction to Atlantis.. Thank you Roomba!!
http://at52.mybrute.com/ <----- fight meeeee!
12. Watch-303 - May 9, 2009 11:44 AM
very good photography. it looks like molten steel
13. Daisy suffers from Turrets - May 9, 2009 12:04 PM
Can't wait for Daisy the retard to post another cut and paste comment.
This robot is more useful that that waste of a life poster
14. Daisy - May 9, 2009 12:11 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a comoplete photoshop job. You can tell because the shadows are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max had a cat that shot lasers out of its eyes and used it to fight crime. Untill the cat got run over while trying to help an old lady across the street. The cat didn't realise the light was orange.
15. Daisy - May 9, 2009 12:31 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max built a robot for his school project. It was saboatged by a classmate, so right before he was going to show it, it broke. He tried to fix it back stage, and his dad told jokes to stall for time, and Max won the sciuence fair because everyone thought his dad was the robot.
16. Deetz - May 9, 2009 2:48 PM
Oh my god... two Daisy's...
They look exactly the same, I can't tell the difference.
*whips out pistol*
Which one should I shoot??!
17. Me! - May 9, 2009 2:52 PM
Shoot me! Make the horror stop!
18. Timbo - May 9, 2009 3:50 PM
I have a roomba but I keep a close eye on it. Mainly I'm just studying how robots think so I'll know the easiest way to kill them
19. Darth - May 9, 2009 4:44 PM
This looks pretty spooky to me.Are there any UFO reports in that area?
20. Gando - May 9, 2009 4:47 PM
Which Konami Code did the roomba use?
21. Everyone Thinks I'm Jewish - May 9, 2009 7:03 PM
21st! Whoooooo!
Anyone else think it looks like a gun? That frightens me.
22. Aids - May 9, 2009 11:43 PM
OMG! the robot is planning something
it created either the solar system in that circle or a map to death!
http://std-aids.mybrute.com/
23. kaitlin - May 10, 2009 12:04 AM
the spiral in the middle? creepy...
also, pretty awesome.
and.. shoot both daisys please.
24. Science imageboard! - May 10, 2009 1:06 AM
I need one of those robots...
Also, found this Science imageboard!
http://www.ib4f.com/board/science/
25. naas - May 10, 2009 12:52 PM
I want a roomba. That's cleaner than I generally keep the place. And by that I mean no it's not & no I dont, I wouldn't trust that robot around all my computers or the robot pron they harbor
26. Captain - May 10, 2009 1:59 PM
MUST SEE!!!!
http://captain-hash.mybrute.com
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27. Noah Lieske - May 10, 2009 2:23 PM
Nice. I want my floor to look like that. Noah Lieske
28. ...In America! - May 10, 2009 3:10 PM
Huh... There's a random spiral in the middle. Odd.
29. pkleaf - May 10, 2009 5:50 PM
@ 28 Yeah, I noticed that too. It's clearly the golden ratio's spiral at work. I guess even robots are bound to it.
30. sadelis - May 11, 2009 7:56 AM
wth is with the random fibonacci spiral it did in the centre of the room?
CONSPIRACY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
31. Name (required): - May 11, 2009 9:43 AM
I believe the spiral is it's starting point, and it moves outward until it finds an edge to move along...OH GOD I'VE SAID TO MUCH....beep, beep, beep, PEW PEW, BOOOOOMMMM!!!!!
32. HarryBarry - May 11, 2009 3:13 PM
iRobot all over again.
33. Roomba_mate - May 13, 2009 1:11 AM
Hey guy I don't want to scare you or anything but have a look a this...it's pretty scarry...yes it is...hmm maybe not but anyway.
As I was killing time at work, I found that nonsense Roomba path, then I remenber a website I was on yesterday where I saw the same kind of patern, here it is :
[ http://talklikeaphysicist.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/image-438.jpg ]
Now you might think this is silly but, for those lazy ass out there, here is a little explaination. It's actually a CERN Bubbles chamber tracks... now WTF is that ?
well I don't have a clue, so I asked the mighty internet as I often do when I don't have clue about something. The following text explain the picture in the link above.
"Here, the particles in the beam, which comes in from the left, are pions, the short-lived particles discovered originally in cosmic rays. One has interacted with a proton in the liquid near the upper left, to create a spray of new particles. One of these was a neutral (uncharged) particle, which left no track, but revealed its existence when it decayed nearer the centre of the image, to produce two charged particles that leave behind a sideways V shape.
The chamber was located in a magnetic field, which made positive particles curve to the right, and negative particles to the left. Particles with high energies, including the beam particles, curve almost imperceptibly, but particles with lower energies produce fascinating spirals. These are mainly due to electrons knocked from atoms in the liquid hydrogen."
Thank you internet for confusing me even more ! Anyway the poor Roomba seems to have a potential end of the effing universe on his mind I would watch out if I were you.
TchouTcha !