This iRobot Has its Mind in the Gutter

iRobot Looj 330

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Best known for its Roomba vacuum cleaner robot, iRobot has reportedly sold 8 million consumer robots over the last 10 years, but not all of them are Roombas. Along with the vacuum cleaners, garage clearing Dirt Dogs and intelligent floor mops is the gutter-cleaning Looj. If that sounds like a joke, its not. Sure gutter cleaners get no respect, but this robot is about to get a major upgrade with the Looj 330.

The Looj is a pint-sized, 1 lb. robot that drives back and forth through your gutter, using a rubber augur and scrappers to lift and throw debris out of the gutter and onto the ground. To use it, you climb a ladder (not included), place the robot in the gutter and then drive it rem…
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