So …. Santa brought me an iRobot Dirt Dog today and it has to be the coolest gift I’ve gotten in my adult life.
It’s loud, especially on the wood floors. It wanders aimlessly and bumps into things. It gets tangled up in rug tassels. So of course we named it after our late, lamented cat – he did the same things. This Nigel, however, sweeps up loose crud on the floor instead of adding to the mess (man, could that cat shed. I swear I could knit a new cat from what fell off him every week).
Tonight I set RoboNigel loose in the StarshipModeler stock room and shut the door. Forty minutes later, he announced the demise of every last dust rhino with a cheerful beeping.
I have no idea how rugged he is, or how long he’ll last, but for now — I’m quite impressed. And I’ve wasted far too much time watching him work, when I could be boxing up these Prometheus kits….
I can’t help but ponder whether to modify him to look like a scutter or a DRD … though I guess I can’t do anything more than paint or he won’t be able to get under the shelves.
