Roomba - The Ant Exterminator (Really!)

It's a case of ant versus robot. Think of it as Alien vs. Predator (AVP for fanboys), only on a much, much smaller scale.

In one corner is the humble ant, scourge of homes everywhere. In the other corner, our beloved Roomba, which not only mercilessly, repeatedly and automatically on a schedule will sweep and vacuum your floors, but will also eat and kill ants, by the hundreds. In fact, exterminators have come to recommend the device. I swear I'm NOT making this up!

From a web post on How to Get Rid of Ants:

A local exterminator came over to my house a few weeks ago after finding an infestigation. He gave me a small robotic vaccum cleaner called the roomba for a week. It had a scheduler and a base charge unit that it automatically went to when the battery got low. The roomba dispatched to the room like 20 times a day. Mostly while I was at work. As worker ants came out behind the wall, the roomba rolled over them and swept them up. So every once in a while it would go off its charger, run for half an hour, and nuke 100+ ants coming out of the wall per session. After about 3 days, running unattended thoughout the day and night, it killed off all the foragers, leaving the queen to starve to death. It was a merciless killing machine. It also cleaned my floors.

From How to Get Rid of Stuff.

Tags: iRobot, Roomba, ants, robot