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Costco has started carrying Rocco and Roxie odor/stain remover, so I picked some up.
I was interested to see how this compared to Nature's Miracle.
Caz, being the eager-to-please dog that he is, promptly left a deposit on the rug for me to clean up.
The roborock beat me to the punch and attempted to ingest Caz's outgest.
Coprophagia in robots was never a topic that Asimov thought to address in his I Robot stories. Capriphagia would be less of a problem, though it would still get my goat.
Rocco & Roxie's cleaner has a stronger antisceptic/chemical odor than Nature's Miracle, but at a first glance seems to perform as well.
The cleaning job on the poor robot did not go well.
The iRobot's battery pack has contacts on the side and snaps into its receptacle to connect power to the robot. The RoboRock has a wire with a little flat plug that goes into a socket on the circuit board.
My dad's DeForest Home Training in Radio Electronics stressed that you must create a physical bond (twisting the wires together, screwing sockets to a board) before using solder to make the solid electrical connection. The RoboRock battery socket is surface-soldered onto the circuit board. There's nothing holding it in place except some fragile lead solder and a copper foil.
If you pull on it, it will come off.
Requisat en pace.
So, I hit RoboRock's website, found "Support" and chatted with a nice lady (who assured me she was real, not a robot) who agreed that my robot was dead and I should send them pictures of the scene of the crime with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back...
Poor Arlo Guthrie - you can't put a paragraph on the back of a JPEG image. Future protestors won't understand how to avoid the draft.
Roborock got back to me on Saturday. My model is not covered for pet damage, but just to be nice guys, they'll send me a refurb'd unit. But just this once. Next time Caz kills The Rock, it's really most sincerely dead, not just mostly dead. No Marvel Comic reboots.