Ours is Robbie, but Rosie’s really perfect for yours.
R2?
or Fifi.
Mom named ours Rudy. I think Ruby is better though.
J. Edgar.
Dusty
if you need a last name then “Trails”
Having recently watched Gosford Park I’ve got several that might work, although only the first one was the butler in the film.
Jennings
Probert
Barnes
Lurch has won out! Doomba, Goomba (derivative) and snarfer also were in the final running, as was jeeves and Kryten.
Elret I’d be happy to give you a review from a new owner. The 770 is one of the new 700 series and seems to combine all the newest important elements without the fancy upgraded screen interface that the top of the line 780 has. We compared it mostly to the 532 pet and found it to have superiour tech in all regards but it simply comes with less accessories, so you trade out there. It was easy to start up out of the box, (just remove a battery tab and a cardboard thingy in the dust bin) and it came with enough charge to set up the clock, program the cleaning days and times and find it’s own home base without incident. After the charging period we ran it twice yesterday. Once manually, and then again later when it was programmed to off on it’s own. It did well in both modes and managed to find all the rooms in our home during the cleaning cycle which runs for the maximum time of one hour. We have an open floor plan single level home that is mostly hardwood with two berber carpet bedrooms. Baths are tile with a lip. It sucked up every bit of dog hair and dust without incident and only needed to be emptied out once as it got into areas I hadn’t cleaned in weeks. On the second cycle it did not need attention and I emptied after it was finished with the house. It did get confused under my desk and had to be rescued once when it could not find it’s way out.
What I’ve learned so far:
Ignore roomba when it does several areas over and over. It will get everything in time.
Roomba HATES cords on the floor, so pick them up or stash them behind a barrier object.
The fluff filling from dog toys that have been ripped open is roomba kryptonite. Pick up this and any other large debris or strings. You won’t have to remove it later.
It is far quieter than I’d expected, and vastly quieter than an upright canister vac. Either the 700 series has been improved significantly in this regard or other reviewers are doing something wrong, or simply impossible to please. I was able to comfortably watch television in the same room at at reasonable volume without the machine distracting me.
The dogs mostly ignore the robot as it does not do anything interesting. The may avoid it and follow it around a bit at first but even our rather simple dog ignored it on the second pass. The smart grew bored with it in minutes when it failed to do anything but rove around at a constant speed, ignoring her attempts to play with it. I think that part of this comes from the machines tendencies to do a 180 and move away when it encounters an obstacle. It basically constantly ignores a dog from a dog’s point of view. Both of them now give the bot a dirty look. I believe that they consider it rude.
Overall, I’m greatly pleased with it and since we have it run every day, it should keep up with the pet hair and dust nicely. Emptying the bin and cleaning the brushes only takes a moment and is well worth the trade off of constantly clean floors and saved time for other chores.
Wodehouse’s Jeeves was a valet and a butler. Bertie Wooster employed him as a valet, but he was variously employed as both a butler and a valet before being engaged by Wooster.
Anyway, Jeeves is a surname, so you’ll still need a first name. I named ours Skynet, but it was killed by our area rugs and now we have a Mint instead.
Zoomba
Fred
Mr.Cleany
A proper butler supervises the household staff, and thus would not be vacuuming himself or herself.
Hal Jr.
Magoo.
Mine is Mr. French. Quieter than expected, and what a treat to have the carpet vacuumed twice a week instead of twice a year.
We love our Roomba, but recently have a mystery…it seems to get all of the dust and things off the floor, but the dust bin is almost empty! Where is it going?
Don’t know why, but we just started calling our Robocop. The name stuck.
The hair is wrapping itself around the rotating brush, and a lot of the dust is clumping in the brush and hair. You have to remove the hair from the brush at least every few weeks (more if you live with a girl or your own hair is more than a few inches long) or it will kill the motor.
I have a Neato not a roomba … mine is called “James” … a friend used to always joke about having a ‘James’ in different areas of the house “James, I’d like a martini and please phone down to the stables and ask James to prepare the bay cob”
If it is very active and peppy name it Dobby. If it is slow and loud name it Kreacher.
We call ours Hose-A.
ArrToo.
And put an eyepatch on him, matey!
I’d have gone with ‘Puck’ for obvious reasons, then pretend some obscure Shakespeare reference if someone asked about it.