Humans bonded with the robotic floor cleaners, giving them names like Dirt Reynolds, but the autonomous agents of chaos ...

(CNN) — In November 2014, Chantelle Darby awoke to an excrement-fueled nightmare. Her Roomba robot vacuum was set to run in the middle of the night, while she, her husband, and their dogs were asleep.

They finally did it, folks. It's been five, long shit-smeared years since the world was shocked to discover that iRobot's fancy robot vacuum cleaners were prone to tracking dog poop all over owners' ...

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LITTLE ROCK, AR -- An Arkansas family went to bed expecting to get a restful night's sleep -- but what they got was anything but restful. In a Facebook post, Jesse Newton explains that his puppy, Evie ...

To keep the peace at home, Keith Hearn had to scold his new robotic vacuum cleaner. The trouble started when Hearn first turned on his Roomba 980 automatic cleaner. When the device started scooting ...

In November 2014, Chantelle Darby awoke to an excrement-fueled nightmare. Her Roomba robot vacuum was set to run in the middle of the night, while she, her husband, and their dogs were asleep. But one ...