Simple. Pretty open.
Within minutes, it had over 50 comments. I’m a pretty introverted person, so that level of commitment was a little scary for me. Once the initial anxiety subsided, I discovered that people have strong feelings about their robot vacuums. Love, hate, contempt. It’s a whole spectrum. And the names? Incredibly creative. The puns alone made me laugh. With the permission of the commenters, I’m sharing some of their responses here because, honestly, they’re too good not to. One person even opted for the hilariously unhinged “Rrrrrrrolling rrapSCALLION III of the Loinst Quadrant.
Some Redditors clearly put a lot of thought into naming their robot vacuums. My personal favorites? Florence the Machine, Clean Latifah, Meryl Sweep and Suck Norris.
Many named their robot vacuum cleaners after fictional characters. One Redditor named his Rosie after the robot maid from The Jetsons. Another named his GLaDOS after the maniacal robot from Portal.
One particularly brave Redditor named his robot vacuum cleaner Maple after the Toronto Maple Leafs because, well, “they stink.” The owner’s grandfather apparently disagrees.
Then there’s Margot Robot 2.0, whose predecessor eventually died and had to be replaced. And Tony Roomba, who, as u/fierydoxy revealed, “Turns out Tony is actually Antonia Roomba because she has a female voice.”
