Comments on: Roomba baby cradle

By: justkidding

justkidding — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:13:59 +0000

Where are the roomba rights advocates? Forcing a roomba into hard labor carrying that kid around all day is just plain wrong! You can see how much roomba hates it by trying to toss that kid off. Free Roomba!

By: Roberto

Roberto — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 01:00:47 +0000

“Never shake a baby” comes to mind.

By: Gilbert Wham

Gilbert Wham — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:46:53 +0000

That baby is glued to that Roomba, i tellz ya. little sucker looks plenty big enough to roll over unaided, yet doesn’t escape the weird buzzing, lurching cardboard thing post-haste? Glue, and lots of it…

By: raiukyuu

raiukyuu — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 17:52:27 +0000

This is actually pretty ingenious.

By: blizzarddemon

blizzarddemon — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 16:46:53 +0000

Am I the only one to notice how much the weight of the baby is probably killing those tiny Roomba motors?

By: food-cook

food-cook — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:23:34 +0000

Introducing kids to technology This is why Asia writes more patents than the U.S. and educates more engineers etc.

very important

By: Wwhat

Wwhat — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 00:58:47 +0000

Nice handheld styrofoam cutter in that video.

By: vonskippy

vonskippy — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:36:18 +0000

I’m guessing all the negative comments are from people who don’t have kids. Kids over the last hundreds of millennia have survived the average day to day events with little to no harm. Kids are remarkable resistant to normal life. The kids parents are obviously smart (hence the hack) so I doubt they think this is a 24/7 unattended solution. As anyone who has a rumba knows – they suck (and not in a good way) at cleaning – so after you forked out that much money, you have to do something clever with it.

By: Dan Fruzzetti

Dan Fruzzetti — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:30:14 +0000

At least if they live in a single-floor, non-split-level house there’s a low chance of earning a just-in-time Darwin Award. Seriously I don’t trust anyone but my wife with our six month old daughter; no robot, no matter how good the hazard sensing, is allowed to carry my child around before she can decide for herself, level head upon righted shoulders, whether she thinks it’s safe enough for her.

By: Louis II

Louis II — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:23:36 +0000

Despite all the weird problems I have with robot parenting, that video was excellent both for entertainment and ingenuity.
*hi fives*

By: cyrozap

cyrozap — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 22:04:53 +0000

Introducing kids to technology. This is why Asia rolls out more engineers than the U.S.

Love the Star Wars music. Geeked at birth.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 21:33:20 +0000

roomba + baby + stairwell = plenty for darwin to work with… i wonder if his next hack will involve diy pins and plates for the resulting broken limbs?

By: BigD145

BigD145 — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 20:18:22 +0000

Roomba movements are so unnatural, I can easily see this kid having some problems later in life.