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So its been a week since we brought home Herbert (or Wall-E, or ‘the robot’) - our 530 series iRobot Roomba vacuum cleaner.

In that time he’s been used daily, both out of need and novelty, and in that time we’ve been impressed with the results we’ve been getting.

For me, the biggest surprise about the Roomba [...]