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The Gutter-Cleaning Robot
by Miss Cellania - December 17, 2007 - 7:11 AM

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You read about robots that can do surgery or play the fiddle, but where are the robots that tackle your unpleasant chores? One available now is the iRobot® Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot. With this gizmo, you climb the ladder once to set it up, and maybe once more to retrieve it (unless you stay up there and watch it). That beats moving the ladder dozens of times, climbing up and down, especially if you don’t have level ground to set your ladder on.

You can watch a demo video at the site, but this video shows the Looj working on a customer’s real-world dirty gutters.

You don’t want to be standing under this thing when it starts throwing gutter goop everywhere! The Looj won a CES Innovations 2008 Award in the home appliance category. It’s one step closer to The Jetsons vision of a house that does its own housework. I can see this kind of technology leading to robots that clear out honeysuckle vines from under a fence row or auger out a clogged sewer. The iRobot® Looj Gutter Cleaning Robot is $99.99 from the manufacturer. Accessories are available.

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Comments (4)

  1. MIss C you made my day! I have a roomba and love it, now I am gonna get this bad boy! Thanks.

    posted by JaneM on 12-17-2007 at 9:29 am

  2. That thing wouldn’t be much help on my gutters; they run the full perimeter of my roof with about 20 corners. I’d have to be up on the roof to get it around each one, so I might as well just do the job myself. That or I’ll figure out how to justify the cost of getting Gutter Helmet installed.

    It’s funny you brought this up; a while back (before everything froze solid) my wife & I were laughing at a couple of squirrels rooting around in the neighbor’s gutters looking for seeds. They were throwing stuff everywhere. We were wondering how we could get them to do a more thorough job of it. Maybe genetic manipulation can get us a new subspecies that’ll do the job.

    posted by Dave on 12-17-2007 at 10:43 pm

  3. One of the C’mas newsletters we received this year mentioned that the guy had bought the Looj, and it succeeded mostly is spitting gutter goop all of the family. I didn’t take that as a product endorsement… A shame, really, because it sounded like a good idea.

    posted by Therese on 12-18-2007 at 10:51 am

  4. It seems like the looj is cutting off the edge of his shingles. Not a good thing.

    posted by Stew on 6-11-2008 at 1:49 pm

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