If you haven’t heard of a Roomba before, it is a small, $100-$600, robotic vacuum cleaner
“Now here’s something interesting, I set up a photo camera in my room, turned out all the lights and took a long-exposure shot of my roomba doing it’s thing for about 30 minutes. The result is a picture that shows the path of the roomba through it’s cleaning cycle, it looks like a flight map or something. It really hits every spot! -signaltheorist“The Roomba tirelessly cleans every nook of the bedroom
It’s interesting to see that the Roomba does not go back in forth in a grid-like manner, but rather appears to start off in a random direction, then turn roughly 90 degrees when it hits an obstacle. It would be interesting to see the Roomba’s algorithm.
Several more Roomba long exposures are posted on a Roomba Art photopool, like this one by Flickr user Bartlec.
Flickr user Bartlec took a long exposure photo of a Roomba's path.
See more at the Flickr Roomba Art photopool.
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[...] When activated, the Roomba will use AWARE(tm) Robotic Intelligence System to navigate through the room and clean it for you. It will use some clever algorithm to reach everywhere, take a look at these pictures. [...]