![]() On March 9th, 2012, the Cheezburger site FAILBlog highlighted the knife-wielding Roomba photo in a post titled "There I Fixed It: The Doomba." On April 26th, YouTuber petetweets uploaded a video titled “Killer Roomba”, featuring another Roomba with a knife and a digital camera strapped to the top of its case. ![]() ![]() In the segment, correspondent Samantha Bee describes the robots as “Roombas of doom. The earliest known portrayal of a Roomba device as an artificial intelligent killing machine can be traced back to the web comic series Questionable Content in a 2006 issue titled "West Side Story." On February 10th, 2009, The Daily Show aired a segment titled “Future Shock – Roombas of Doom”, featuring an interview with an engineer who invented weaponized Roombas known as "Packbots" for the U.S. On March 6th, 2012, Redditor buswork submitted a photo to the /r/pics subreddit of a Roomba with a kitchen knife taped to the top in a post titled "Home Security." Within five months, the post received over 23,000 up votes and 550 comments. Since its introduction in 2002, the home appliance product has sold at least 6 million units and established itself as one of the first commercially successful first-generation domestic robots. A Roomba is an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner manufactured and distributed by iRobot.
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