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Someone Modified A Roomba To Curse When It Bumps Into Things And It’s Hilarious

If you, like me, were unfamiliar with the name Roomba, it is one of those robot vacuum cleaner thingies, which are now much more common and popular than I realized. Apparently, I’m still stuck in the middle ages, vacuuming away in analog like an absolute sucker.

Someone Modified A Roomba To Curse When It Bumps Into Things And It's Hilarious

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Anyway, like all modern technology, the designs for these robot vacuums are always being constantly modified and refined, to make them smarter, quieter and more efficient.

Technology YouTuber Michael Reeves, known for his colorful language and clever but ultimately pointless robots, decided to take a different approach, however, by responding to his followers’ requests to make a Roomba vacuum that screams and curses when it bumps into stuff.

After some unusual engineering, Michael Reeves created a monster

Someone Modified A Roomba To Curse When It Bumps Into Things And It's Hilarious

Reeves, whose YouTube channel boasts over 2.2 million followers, did not seem overly enthusiastic about the home appliance idea and enlisted the help of fellow tech bloggers iDubbbz, MaxMoeFoe, and LilyPichu to lend their swearing voices and inspiration to the project.

Eventually, they come up with a whiney, potty-mouthed machine full of self-pity and existential dread, which Reeves then took to his local Target store for some ‘market research.’

Someone Modified A Roomba To Curse When It Bumps Into Things And It's Hilarious

A Rude Roomba that screams and curses when it bumps into stuff

Someone Modified A Roomba To Curse When It Bumps Into Things And It's Hilarious

He took the modified machine to his local Target store for some ‘market research’

Someone Modified A Roomba To Curse When It Bumps Into Things And It's Hilarious

The responses were mixed, with some laughs and bemused looks

Someone Modified A Roomba To Curse When It Bumps Into Things And It's Hilarious

He even tried to ‘return’ the apparently ‘malfunctioning’ Roomba, much to the shocked amusement of staff

Someone Modified A Roomba To Curse When It Bumps Into Things And It's Hilarious

In the end, Reeves concludes that the general public is not ready for the rude and rambunctious Roomba. “It appears as though our invention is simply too far ahead of its time,” he says. “The world isn’t ready for the Roomba that screams swear words when it bumps into things and I’m okay with that.”

You can watch the full video below

Here’s how people reacted to the rude Roomba

Someone Modified A Roomba To Curse When It Bumps Into Things And It's Hilarious

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James is a Bored Panda reporter who graduated with a BA in Peace And Conflict Studies and an MA in African Affairs. Before Bored Panda, he was an English teacher and also travelled a lot, doing odd jobs from beer-slinging to brickie's labourer and freelance journalism along the way. James loves covering stories about social and environmental issues and prefers to highlight the positive things that unite us, rather than petty internet squabbles about fictional characters. James is the grumpy, contradictory one who thinks that Bored Panda, due to its large audience, has a social responsibility to inspire and inform its readers with interesting issues and entertaining, well-researched stories. Let's do our bit to make our little corner of the internet a smarter, more truthful and less angry place!

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