Roomba Dark Rugs

Dark colors absorb light and light colors reflect it.

Roomba dark rugs. Therefore when the roomba rolls over a black dark carpet or border it interrupts the absence of reflected infrared light as a cliff. Then cut into 4 small pieces that will cover the sensors. I contacted irobot customer support. Roomba does not go well with black or dark patterns on carpet.

Yes even the top of the line roomba 980 is plagued by this problem. Your roomba will act confused and start going back and forth as it tries to get away from the black or very dark carpet in order to keep itself from danger. Use the power mode or the carpet mode to deep clean rugs and carpets. Turn the roomba upside down and there will be 5 clear windows around the front on the bottom.

The roomba 960 has two counter rotating extractors a design that helps it clean thicker rugs more thoroughly than single brush bots especially with pet hair. It is the dark border on the area rug that is the problem. Tips for using a roomba on a rug schedule a separate cleaning time for areas with rugs or thick carpets so the roomba wouldn t have a hard time transitioning between floor types or threshold levels. I found this out after buying a large black area rug.

It seems that the border does not keep it from driving off of the rug because it is further from the sensors when the roomba is up on the rug. If your robot is having issues navigating on dark surfaces please ensure there is no dust or debris blocking the cliff. Basically you need to trick the 4 sensors on the front of the machine as a dark area rug will trick the roomba in thinking it is falling down the stairs. They would stop at the edge of the black and change direction as if they detected a step or ledge.

Tape them in place over the sensors on the. The roomba robot vacuum has voice recognition and an app you can control it with making the experience a lot better. One of the reasons would be that the robots don t have the suction power to take on thick carpets. All irobot roomba models have this issue.

This is a safety mechanism included in all roomba models. Those are the cliff sensors. Roomba i series and s series robot vacuums can navigate on dark surfaces. I have two roomba discoveries and niether one of them would roll over black color lines in any of my area rugs.

Take a piece of plain white paper and cover it on both sides with clear packing tape. High pile area rugs e g. Shag rugs with corners that curl up may cause. Thing is on dark colored rugs the roomba will think it s about to fall and it will shut down.

Roomba avoids black color pattern on rugs. It is not black but a chocolate brown border about 2 wide that runs the perimeter of the rug. Like we said when we started the rugs like this cannot be used on thick carpets for obvious reasons.