How does a Roomba work?

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I’m talking about the the IRobot vacuum machine.

Does it just randomly choose a direction and then just keep going until it hits a wall?

Or does it have intelligence in it that keeps track of where it has already vacuumed(maintaining it’s state) ?

One thing I read that was interesting was that the same company IRobot built and deployed a variation of the Roomba, the Packbot to Iraq that cleared explosives and helped identify the location of snipers so i am thinking there has to be some form of intelligence built into it.

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It depends on the model of Roomba. The cheaper ones will follow some algorithm to decide where to go, while the higher end ones will build a model of the area it’s cleaning in order to move more efficiently in the future.

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