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Roomba 530 robotic vacuum review by consumer advocate Mike Adams Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

We decided to buy a roomba 530 and put it to the test, and today we bring you the results in an exclusive NewsTarget Photo Tour available at http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_roomba_530_1.html Why review a roomba robotic vacuum? For one thing, the use of household robots has potentially huge implications for the quality of life of consumers.

Click the following link to view the photo tour for yourself and explore what's new (and cool) with the roomba 530: http://www.newstarget.com/phototour_roomba_530_1.html I can't wait to arm my roomba with a Taser... So with all this good technology, what reservations could I possibly have about the iRobot Corporation? For one, the company has reached an agreement with the Taser company to start mounting tasers on its tactical robots sold to the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies. Do we really want tasers on robots that could potentially be used for crowd control on the U.S.

Plus, a lot of consumers are suddenly interested in the roomba robots, and I wanted to offer a truly independent, objective review of this product and the company behind it: the iRobot Corporation. As you'll see in the review, I have some serious reservations about the company's future plans for battlefield robots, but you'll have to keep reading to learn about that. In this review, I describe the new technologies and improvements in the roomba 530 model, and show detailed pictures of the relevant parts of the robot.

Why review a roomba robotic vacuum? For one thing, the use of household robots has potentially huge implications for the quality of life of consumers. The more we can get machines to take care of basic household chores (like doing dishes, washing laundry or, in this case, cleaning floors), the more time we all have to spend on other, more meaningful endeavors like watching stupid videos on YouTube and playing video games on the Nintendo Wii.

In this review, I describe the new technologies and improvements in the roomba 530 model, and show detailed pictures of the relevant parts of the robot. Overall, the product is quite impressive: It works as advertised, and it delivers solid performance with a more environmentally friendly battery and smarter navigation that handles thick carpets as easily as hardwood floors. Even cleaning the brushes and dust bin is now far easier than in previous models (view the product pictures to see for yourself).

I can't wait to arm my roomba with a Taser... So with all this good technology, what reservations could I possibly have about the iRobot Corporation? For one, the company has reached an agreement with the Taser company to start mounting tasers on its tactical robots sold to the U.S. military and law enforcement agencies. Do we really want tasers on robots that could potentially be used for crowd control on the U.S. population?

The implications of humanoid robots as laborsaving devices are more ominous than most people realize Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

It's sort of the way that people now use the floor sweeping robot roomba, which wanders aimlessly around your house clogging its wheels with hair and dust. But eventually, as humanoid robots become more and more useful, they will begin to compete with human labor, and at that point we have a collision of interest. We'll eventually have the large, powerful robot-manufacturing corporations, which will probably be Japanese companies, facing off against the minimum-wage labor force.

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