Robots' Anatomy Self-Study

Roombas' anatomy: self-study part

Robots' parts and their multiple variations might seem overwhelming: too much and too many. Please, breathe in and out. You have the trainers to addresss the questions to and all the materials to remind you about the details and variations. Let's try to grasp the logic...

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Summary

Read this presentation and click on all the clickable components to familiarize yourself with the basics of Roomba parts. After that, during the presentation the trainer will explain what part is aimed at what feature specifically.

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Roombas' Parts

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Roomba from the Top

Faceplate

RCON Sensor

Camera

Handle

Dust Bin

Soft-Touch Bumper

Bin Release Button

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Roomba from the Bottom

Extractors

Extractor caps

Side Brush

Dust Bin

Charging Contacts

Extractor Frame Release Tab

Caster Wheel

Cleaning Head Module

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Roomba from the Bottom

Evacuation Port (only for robots with a Clean Base)

Cliff Sensors - on this model we have 6 Cliff Sensors and they are marked with number 6

Optical Floor Tracking Sensor

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Light Ring - indicates what the robot is doing.

Roomba's Buttons

The number of buttons can differ, e.g., j series robots have only 1 button, but the majority of our robots still have 3 buttons.

Clean Button - initiates a new cleaning mission or to pause an ongoing one

Home Button - sends the robot to the Home Base to charge.

Spot Button - cleans approximately 3 ft/1 m around a dirty spot in diameter and then returns to where it started.

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Roomba's Dust Bin

Bin Full Sensors - indicate whether the bin is full and trigger Error 36 - Bin Full Error, if it is

Bin Door

Evacuation = Evac Port. Only for Roombas with a Clean Base

Filter

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Roombas' Charging

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How Do Roombas charge?

Home Base - charges only. This is how even the earliest Roombas were charging.

To charge, Roomba drives on a dock for its charging contacts to meet the charging contacts on a dock.

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Clean Base - charges and automatically cleans the dust bin after a cleaning mission. Appered with i series as an evolution of a Home Base. It gathers the debris into a Dirt Disposal Bag

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Home & Clean Bases Variations perdocking Technology How a Roomba recognizes a dock - with the help of Infrared light or a visual code recognized by a robot's camera

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Clean Bases Variations per series

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We can't just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.

Greta Thunburg

:) The same story with iRobot - when you think that this should be the end...it's not, as new & more advanced products are launched regularly

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So..here we go - our most advanced docks: iRobot Auto-___ Docks

Clean Base® Auto-Fill Dock for Roomba Combo j9. As it's for a Combo robot that vacuums & mops, it automatically refills the water in a robot for another cleaning.

Clean Base® AutoWash Dock for Roomba Combo 10 Max. Refills the water + washes and dries the mopping pad after cleaning or when the customer wants.

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HERE WE HAVE THE AUTO- ____ DOCKS FOR THE NEWEST ROBOTS' ON OUR PRODUCT LINE

Auto Wash dock for Roomba Combo 405 & 505 . Allows charging, debris evacuation , mopping pad re-wet , pad washing & drying.

Auto Empty dock for Roomba Combo 105. Allows robot to charge and automatically empty the debris.

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Roombas' Consumables

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Replenishment kits

For customers' convenience and money-saving, consumables are sold as Replenishment Kits. They differ from series to series.

800 & 900 series

700 series

s series

600 series

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Replenishment kits

They differ from series to series.

e, i, j series

Essentials

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REPLENISHMENT KITS

Consumables for the newest robot models' in our Production Line

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Roomba Combo 405, 505

Roomba Combo 105,205

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That's finally it for your self-study! Let's just veeery quickly recap...

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Well Done! You got the basics, let's now get a deeper dive into the topic with the trainer...

Not really! Why not to give it another try?

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Charging Contacts

Charging contacts both on a Roomba and on a dock should be shiny and silvery-looking. It's not an issue if the contacts have some scratches on them, but dark stains on them are not ok - they can prevent the electricity from going through them, and thus, lead to charging issues.