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I recently purchased a Roomba Evo i3 and I have this exact same problem, only with my bar stools [1]. The bar stools have horizontal supports that stick up about 25 mm from the ground—not enough to trigger the bump sensor but enough for the robot to be unable to drive over them.

I'm not super excited about this particular solution because it might affect the stability of the barstools when people are sitting in them, but I'm considering making some 3D-printed pieces to increase the height of the horizontal support enough to trigger the bump sensor.

(If you're reading this and work at iRobot, please file an internal bug report about this!)

[1] Similar to this product: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Walker-Edison-Furniture-Company-...



Heh, same with a different brand of vacuum and a chair.

Tubular steel + Bauhaus design seems to be the concept.

https://www.google.com/search?q=tubular+steel+furniture&tbm=...

An example among the Wikipedia-notable models of furniture, for rabbit-holing:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wassily_Chair

Edit:

The front of the robot would ride up until the wheels were against the bar and lost traction, so it could still back off easily. The (Wyze) firmware was smart enough to do so and record the spot as obstructed after a few seconds of wheelspin, but this always amounted to several minutes of loud tyre slippage as it got around the entire chair.

That firmware also trusts its LIDAR completely (thus bedskirts need a lifted up port or it won't try to go through), so tape strung between the chair legs at turret height worked at first. The tape kept getting stepped on, though, so spare adhesive bumpers beneath the existing feet turned out to be our final solution.


Pedantry ensues: I followed one link too little; the most precise term is actually 'cantilever chair'

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Cantilever_chair...


We have similar chairs and have to prop them up before the Roomba runs to avoid it getting stuck.


This thread is my life too. So nice to hear others with the same style chair having the same Roomba issues ( ours is shark brand but exact same issue)


Oh and don't start me on the pedestal [1] bar stools (also bar table) I have and the robot keeps climbing the base discs until it gets stuck. You can't mark them as no-go areas as they're too small (you end up with dirt around them) and they also move around, so whenever cleaning that area I have to stick around to solve the unavoidable alarm notifications. Or I carry the stools someplace else and must unstuck the robot only from the table pedestal.

[1] example from the same site: https://www.homedepot.com/p/Benjara-Black-and-Brown-Wooden-O...?




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