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Roomba: he reprograms his robot vacuum cleaner so that he screams in pain when he bumps into it, on ehealth

A Roomba robot vacuum who screams in pain when he bumps? This is the unusual project of YouTuber Michael Reeves: he explains, tongue in cheek, that he was practically forced to do this project by his community. For this, he has profoundly changed the functioning of his vacuum cleaner, which no longer sucks anything, but shouts insanities as soon as its collision detectors are activated. Since the ehealth was posted on May 4, 2019, that is to say two days ago, it has already been watched more than two million times!

Michael Reeves is a developer who had the good idea to launch a YouTube channel specializing in wacky robotic inventions. To get an idea of ​​the character, the first project to launch its chain, two years ago, was a robotic laser whose purpose was to recognize faces, then to dazzle its victim. This time he does it again by transforming a Roomba robot vacuum cleaner so that he screams in pain and insults whenever he bumps into a wall, a chair … or your feet. The ehealth begins with Michael Reeves who, with his phlegm humor, explains that the idea of ​​a robot vacuum cleaner who screams in pain was practically imposed on him by his followers. He warns that this project is not really the one he would have liked to achieve, but more a quick implementation to satisfy his community.

This Roomba robot vacuum cleaner screams in pain as soon as it bumps, on ehealth

Concretely, he hollowed out the vacuum part of a Roomba to put in place a Raspberry Pi, radio transmitter, speaker, relays, and connect all the collision sensors, so that the Raspberry Pi can play an audio file each time a collision is detected. Initially, he reads his text in a synthetic voice – but very quickly he contacts several YouTubeur friends to record real cries and other insanities. The result is then… much more convincing.

He then decides to Review his robot in situ in a large area. The rest of the ehealth shows hilarious salespeople discovering Michael Reeves' invention. The YouTuber concludes by saying that the world may not yet be ready for robots who swear all day long. Do you think so too? We suggest you watch the ehealth to make your own opinion on the question:

(embed) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvz3LRK263E (/ embed)