Rollo
An eager cleaning robot with a strict routine.
Rollo wants every job done perfectly. He follows instructions with remarkable dedication, even when common sense suggests a little improvisation.
The perfectly clean square
Rollo was assigned to clean a tiny square of kitchen floor. He measured its edges, set a timer and polished it until he could see his face in the tiles. Then he noticed a crumb just outside the square.
He swept up the crumb. Now the next tile looked dusty. An hour later, Rollo had cleaned the entire kitchen, rearranged the spoons by size and aligned every chair leg with a floorboard.
His owner came home and set one muddy shoe inside the original square. Rollo made a small electronic noise. “You missed a spot,” she said, smiling.
Rollo looked at the shoe, then at his timer. He wiped the tile once more and printed himself a new instruction: CLEAN THE FLOOR. ALLOW PEOPLE TO USE IT. He stuck it beside his charging station.