He’s finally left me … the robot hoover.

[Veetavix]

I can’t find him anywhere.

Was I being too needy? Demanding his services sometimes two or three times a day.

Was it the baby led weaning that finally made him say, ‘That’s it. I’ve had enough. I may be a robot, but I am not a slave’.

Whatever his reasons, he’s gone. I can’t find him anywhere. There’s just an empty dock where he used to live, but no Harry (as in, ‘Dirty Harry’, the name suggested in the manual).

😂😂😂

You only have yourself to blame. He's probably hoovering someone else's floor right now, and I bet that OF is smoother and cleaner and offers a better range of dropped finger food. I recommend you think long and hard about what you've done, maybe get some counselling before putting your floors back out there.

He hasn’t gone free range has he, like the one who escaped a hotel through automatic doors?! Check your hedgerows in case he’s nesting nearby 😁

Mine lives behind the TV or under the sofa …. Bit like the dog

metro.co.uk/2022/01/23/robot-vacuum-cleaner-escapes-travelodge-in-bid-for-freedom-15967209/amp/

Yes to checking outside. Mine is always under the middle of a bed.

I do have some regrets. I don’t need a therapist to tell me that. Giving the baby Weetabix dampened with milk would have been the last straw for anyonebot.

He’s only got those little whirly brushes, after all. Not a chisel or a pneumatic drill, ffs.

I couldn’t get outside last night, but have just had a good look in the front and back garden.

There is a sort of tropical wilderness in the front garden that I have waded through. He isn’t there 😭.

I can only imagine that he made it down the front step, all the way down the rickety front path, that someone had—by chance—left the front gate open and that a bus had been passing at that exact moment and let the wheelchair ramp down… and Harry seized his chance to go.

Any sightings @Veetavix ? Have you put up Missing posters on every tree in the neighbourhood or checked properly under the bed?

He’s gone off with the strumpet robovac from travel lodge. Look under your hedge. If you find a brush there, they’ve become parents.

Nature abhors a vacuum

Is he linked to Alexa? He should beep if there's any battery charge left.

I had a moment of inspiration a couple of nights ago … sometimes Harry would knock down the plinth under the cupboards. I wondered (to myself): could he have mounted the plinth and got over to the other side, and then someone come along and said, ‘Here now. That plinth looks very scruffy over on its side, there. I’m going to fix that back up how it’s supposed to be,’ and then trapped Harry behind the plinth?

It seemed unlikely, and that bit under the cupboards is quite disgusting so I didn’t really want to look under there, but as soon as DH came home, I asked him to unfix the plinth and there was Harry! He had effectively been walled up as you would do to a traitor in a medieval castle in medieval times.

So he’s back now, scampering around. I don’t serve Weetabix to the baby these days because I still have it in my head that that is why he left. Even though it turned out that he hadn’t left.

I also scratched the floor when I tried to use the main hoover in his absence and got a bit of stone stuck in the rollers. Harry is polishing the scratch up very nicely, however, with his firm whirling bristles. It’s good to have him back.

Poor trapped Harry, stuck in the dark like a pit pony! Glad he is now frolicking in the light where he belongs.

My brother has one of those robotic lawnmowers (ana Larry) . He went missing last week and I found him in the field next door. These robots have a mind of their own!

This thread started out making me laugh, then I remembered an episode of Love/Death/Robots (or maybe Black Mirror?) and I'm now scared for your safety OP... Reply to say you and Weetababy are safe (although how will I know it's you and not Harry?!)

I would love to buy my husband a robot lawnmower and robot vacuum cleaner.
Does anyone have both?
Do the become friends or enemies?

Quite safe, thank you. Harry hasn’t docked properly on his charging thing, so he has run out of battery - currently lying inert next to the play pen. He has some way to go before world domination.

I haven’t seen Black Mirror but your post made me look up a Ray Bradbury story that I remembered had robot cleaners: www.btboces.org/Downloads/7_There%20Will%20Come%20Soft%20Rains%20by%20Ray%20Bradbury.pdf. It all goes up in smoke in the end …

The robot lawnmower is one that I actually truly fear. Presumably, those things have actual sharp blades and could do serious damage if Putin cyberpossessed them and set them against us.

The most harm Harry could do to me and Weetababy is tickle us with his bristles. Actually, the worst thing he could do to us is stop working.

A robot vacuum cleaner 'escaped' from a hotel near us a few months ago

Ooh, I hadn't read that Ray Bradbury before, thanks OP.

Agree that the lawnmowers are more terrifying, let's hope they don't stage a revolution...

So my robot vacuum stops working . . . I barely escape the piles of crumbs and dust and make my way out of my house . . . only to be sliced to pieces from my ankles upwards by my robot lawnmower who has been lurking behind the pile of crap my husbands been ‘taking to the tip this weekend’ for six months.
It’s all too scary for me.
I will stick to human vacuuming and lawn mowing.