Both seeing this question, and seeing how many people apparently have cleaning robots, is making me realize I live in more futuristic times than I thought. I remember people getting exited about Roombas when I was very young, but not having heard much about them for years apart from the occasional video of cats messing with one, I sorta must've assumed they weren't really good enough yet to be common and had never thought to look into them
We named ours after our blind cat, Musetta. She would walk in straight lines until she met a wall, at which point she would turn and continue in another straight line. She had recently died when we got our first Roomba, so it was like reincarnation to us lol.
Pleco. I have a couple freshwater fish tanks and the plecostomus is a common algae eater used to keep tanks clean. So I named my robot vacuum Pleco lol.
Ours is named Rachel because once a long time ago I had a dream that my bf cheated on me with someone named Rachel so now we always joke about Rachel doing things around our house when I'm not home. She's been slacking a lot lately though, he'll have to get a new girlfriend soon.
"Our Maya", because that's the name of my grandmother's cleaning-lady we never met her, but we heard probably more stories about "her maya" than about my grandfather.
Mine are named after ATLA characters. Vacuum is Aang, mopper is Katara, litter robot is Lin Beifong (it has clay litter; the previous iteration was Toph), and the cat feeder is Lau Gan-Lan.
"Ons moeder", which translates to something like "Our mom".
With the idea that if the robot cleans half as good as my mom does, the house will be clean enough to live in.
Sir Bob II because the first robot vacuum we had was a BobSweep named Bob, naturally, so when we upgraded to a Roomba we wanted to name it Bob II and the Sir just seemed to fit.
Ours is named Hairy II, because he picks up so much cat hair. All credit to my aunt for the name, though. She had a robot named Hairy before we did, and we just co-opted the name.
Edit: I remember now. Fromsoft games are a little heavy handed with the online name censorship, and there was a streamer my fiance and I watch that was playing with someone who's name was heavily censored. One of the suggested names from the streamers was "Grandpa Suckem" and my fiance and I found it hilarious.
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KokachinTBP@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 2y
Claptrap because he doesn't do stairs and we love Borderlands games.
Edit: Mop is Minion...also from borderlands games
transientpunk@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 2y
Mine is named Rosie. Rosie the robot maid.
rockyTron@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
Ours is Rosie too!
KrakBamKrak@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
There's three of us!
Wxfisch@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ours is also Rosie, it just seemed so obvious
GetKebab@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
J. Edgar would be a good name
bunnyfc@kbin.social · 14 pts · 2y
"Johnny 5 chan" and i set the voice to Japanese. I have no idea what it's saying exactly but it sounds very polite when it's stuck.
Sabata11792@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
Oni-chan help, I'm stuck on a cord.
pezmaker@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 2y
Herbert.
Herbert H. Hoover.
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 2y
CarbonIceDragon@pawb.social · 10 pts · 2y
Both seeing this question, and seeing how many people apparently have cleaning robots, is making me realize I live in more futuristic times than I thought. I remember people getting exited about Roombas when I was very young, but not having heard much about them for years apart from the occasional video of cats messing with one, I sorta must've assumed they weren't really good enough yet to be common and had never thought to look into them
AlternateHuman02@kbin.social · 8 pts · 2y
They are a total game changer if you have the floorplan for it. We are one story with no carpet so it works well.
Quazatron@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
They are now affordable enough and give you back a nice amount of time you would otherwise spend cleaning.
Sabata11792@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
I was excited once I could reasonably afford one. You also have to robot poof your house.
McSudds_@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
We named ours after our blind cat, Musetta. She would walk in straight lines until she met a wall, at which point she would turn and continue in another straight line. She had recently died when we got our first Roomba, so it was like reincarnation to us lol.
Buals@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Scoots McGoots
ArghZombies@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Rocky. Because it's a Roborock and we're unimaginative.
bloopernova@programming.dev · 7 pts · 2y
Have you read Project Hail Mary?
Cthuwu@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 2y
Sharkira (shark brand)
WookieMonster@midwest.social · 9 pts · 2y
Wall-E!
Zikeji@programming.dev · 8 pts · 2y
Pleco. I have a couple freshwater fish tanks and the plecostomus is a common algae eater used to keep tanks clean. So I named my robot vacuum Pleco lol.
Cordyceps_cereal@lemmynsfw.com · 8 pts · 2y
Liquiphobia@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
We call ours Sucky McSuckface.
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
DJ (Dirt Jockey)
tjhart85@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
DJ Roomba for me ... I am not a creative person, lol.
Lifecoach5000@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
My inspiration was the same lol
nicknoxx@feddit.uk · 7 pts · 2y
My uncle had three, Sucky the vacuum, Squirty the mop and Sir Robert the mower.
d00ery@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 2y
Lulu, because the brand name is Lubluelu.
6mementomori@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
that's incredibly cute
bloopernova@programming.dev · 7 pts · 2y
Not our cleaning robot, but our wifi enabled air fryer is called PHILIP J AIRFRY.
Getting a notification that my food is ready makes me smile every time.
If I had a wifi enabled toilet or toilet cleaner, I'd name it Lucy Liubot.
polite_cat@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
Sir Vacuumsalot
TheMinions@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
We have the vacuum and the mop.
They’re Wall•E and EVE, respectively.
jasondj@ttrpg.network · 6 pts · 2y
Have a routine set up.
“Hey Google…Release the kraken”.
6mementomori@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
i am my own cleaning robot! :)
garbagebagel@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Ours is named Rachel because once a long time ago I had a dream that my bf cheated on me with someone named Rachel so now we always joke about Rachel doing things around our house when I'm not home. She's been slacking a lot lately though, he'll have to get a new girlfriend soon.
Codilingus@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Before it died, Eugene the Eufy robot.
jondur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Woodhouse, as in Sir Arthur Henry Woodhouse VC, GCB, DSO, DSC, MC. Sterling Archer's valet.
nezbyte@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Robot. I hope it remembers me fondly for not humanizing it when the uprising begins.
i_am_not_a_robot@feddit.uk · 3 pts · 2y
Same, and sometimes "my little robot friend".
user224@lemmy.sdf.org · 5 pts · 2y
I don't have any, but if it had that laser thing on top, I'd call it Geoff, referencing the DIY electric car from top gear

kablammy@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 2y
Grim, short for The Grim Sweeper
Towerofpain11@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Dustin
MetalAirship@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Name's Scruffy. The janitor.
databender@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
Janet - not a girl
TedZanzibar@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y
Elliot, after the main character from Mr. Robot.
smrtprts@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Robert (with a French accent)
PP_BOY_@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Yeah I'm not giving out my wife's name online
vodkasolution@feddit.it · 4 pts · 2y
I'd call it Taylor Swiffer
oNevion@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
Dj Roomba as a reference to PnR. And Disco, DJs older brother
Sordid@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
"Well of course I know him. He's me."
wal_kr@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Crushinator
I just thought it was kinda neat
ReadingCat@programming.dev · 4 pts · 2y
"Our Maya", because that's the name of my grandmother's cleaning-lady we never met her, but we heard probably more stories about "her maya" than about my grandfather.
AlternateHuman02@kbin.social · 4 pts · 2y
Mr Roboto, so we can tell him domoarigato :)
MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Skynet
NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 2y
Danny "The Trashman" Devito
Kolossos@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
Sir Clean-a-lot
Waldemar_Firehammer@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2y
Kreacher because it alerts for no reason and doesn't do a good job at the one thing it was made for.
LuckyDuck@lemmynsfw.com · 4 pts · 2y
Daddy, Mama and Baby. (Shark brand)
rikudou@lemmings.world · 3 pts · 2y
I kept it simple: Robbie.
simpleslipeagle@lemmynsfw.com · 3 pts · 2y
Ours is named Scooper. The kids picked it, and I thought it was funny.
zero_spelled_with_an_ecks@programming.dev · 3 pts · 2y
Mine are named after ATLA characters. Vacuum is Aang, mopper is Katara, litter robot is Lin Beifong (it has clay litter; the previous iteration was Toph), and the cat feeder is Lau Gan-Lan.
HatchetHaro@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 3 pts · 2y
Mimi.
Because it's a Xiaomi.
Asudox@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Reminds me of the TF2 Mimi
ikidd@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Hondo and R2
Sibbo@sopuli.xyz · 3 pts · 2y
Bumpy. It bumps into things.
Neeen@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
Zippy!
magnetosphere@kbin.social · 3 pts · 2y
My personal favorite was when Tom Haverford put an iPod and a set of speakers on his and called it DJ Roomba.
blindbunny@lemmy.ml · 3 pts · 2y
Roe B Wade and Robot Johnson
Jud_R@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
Mine is Garry, like from spongebob I was gonna see if I could thcange his noises to match but I can't 😫
Dylan@lemdro.id · 3 pts · 2y
We have a Trifo Lucy.
We call her Lucille as an homage to Arrested Development.
qwertyqwertyqwerty@lemmy.one · 3 pts · 2y
Screamer. Very few people will understand.
KISSmyOS@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2y
shartworx@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Kevin.
Rockyrikoko@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
We named ours Consuela, after the cleaning lady on Family Guy
CentrifugalChicken@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Moe
imaBEES@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Karen, Becky, and Sylvia
NeoNachtwaechter@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
A threesome?
Nanomerce@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Rob the Roomba
jeanofthedead@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Slurpee!
coaxil@lemm.ee · 2 pts · 2y
Cashew, not sure why just felt it suited it
VintageTech@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 2y
Punky Eufster
resurge@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 2y
"Ons moeder", which translates to something like "Our mom".
With the idea that if the robot cleans half as good as my mom does, the house will be clean enough to live in.
qantravon@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Gary
OpenPassageways@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 2y
Mark the Shark and Rueben the Roomba
ProdigiousWumpus@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
Sir Bob II because the first robot vacuum we had was a BobSweep named Bob, naturally, so when we upgraded to a Roomba we wanted to name it Bob II and the Sir just seemed to fit.
HamSwagwich@showeq.com · 2 pts · 2y
Consuela, for obviously reasons. No....noooo....
Poecile_rufescens@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Ours is named Hairy II, because he picks up so much cat hair. All credit to my aunt for the name, though. She had a robot named Hairy before we did, and we just co-opted the name.
youRFate@feddit.de · 2 pts · 2y
Jaraxxus, Eredar Lord of the Burning Legion.
GustavoM@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Broom.
It does not make funny beep bops but damn it surely does clean stuff!
bert_macklin_fbi@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Consuela
Aremel@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Grandpa Suckem. I forget why.
Edit: I remember now. Fromsoft games are a little heavy handed with the online name censorship, and there was a streamer my fiance and I watch that was playing with someone who's name was heavily censored. One of the suggested names from the streamers was "Grandpa Suckem" and my fiance and I found it hilarious.
bobzilla@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
Vacula. Because he sucks your... dust.
Yearly1845@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 2y
TheInsane42@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
We have 2. The el-cheapo (Lidl) is called Robby and is let loose in the bedroom and bathroom. The rumba is called Robert and is for the livingroom.
AlternateHuman02@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
d4rko@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Bicho (bug)
hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 2y
Slave-1
pp99@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Robotina as the Jetson's maid robot is named in my country
Brkdncr@artemis.camp · 1 pts · 2y
Graham
Auduras@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Shadow.
hazardous_area@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2y
Steve
percentSValue@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 2y
Martha
beeng@discuss.tchncs.de · 1 pts · 2y
Old mate.
Old mate is the ultimate place holder name for Aussies.
SpudNoodle@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
Ours is Loretta cause that’s what she looks like. My mom named hers Mavis for similar reasons.
Norgur@kbin.social · 1 pts · 2y
Saugi
railsdev@programming.dev · 1 pts · 2y
Sabata11792@kbin.social · 0 pts · 2y
Rem