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Servicing a robot vacuum cleaner (2019)


This week it was time for some maintenance on my iRobot Roomba robot vacuum cleaner. Read along to learn how I did it.

The Roomba is able to change direction when it encounters an obstacle, detect dirty spots on the floor and prevents crashing down from stairs. I was lucky to find a store in Amsterdam that sold one of the first robot vacuum cleaners available in The Netherlands: the iRobot Roomba 555. Unscrew the spinning brushWiggle the brush loose from its center axleRemove dirt from the axle During vacuum cleaning the robot collects fine grained dust on the inside.

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