Robot Add-Ons Keep Off Strips

by Robot Add-Ons

Product Features

• Attach to any floor surface
• Can be repositioned
• Always ready to be used
• Safeguard troublesome areas from your robot
• Battery free

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 18 x 3 x 0.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B004MM1KQK
• Item model number: 2020-1001
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #202,330 in Home & Kitchen (See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen)

Product Description

Wish you could provide boundaries around difficult areas such as a Christmas tree skirt, Robot Add-Ons KeepOut Strips allows you to safeguard the places where you don’t want Roomba to go. Specially designed soft black strips can be arranged in straight or cured patterns to keep Roomba away from difficult areas, while it cleans the rest of the room. Our battery free strips use Roomba's cliff detectors to fool Roomba into thinking it sees a step causing it to backup and turn away. Each KeepOut Strips kit contains four 18-INCH long strips you can align together or use separately. Works on all Roomba and Scooba Products.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good for permanent placement, August 5, 2010

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E. Rosoff (Los Angeles, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This is a good product, but not quite what I was expecting. I thought these would be rubberized so they would easily grip the floor, but in fact you have to use the (provided) adhesive tape. This means these are only good for one time permanent placement, whereas I was hoping to be able to move them around as necessary.

They do work quite well, though, at keeping the Roomba away from places I don't want it to go.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Works well with Roomba 560, October 24, 2009

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Adam Helberg (Tustin, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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They work well with my Roomba 560. I don't even bother to glue them down. I store them with my virtual walls and just place them in front of something delicate I don't want the Roomba to run into (such as my PC). They are a nice complement to the virtual walls.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Good idea, but does not work too well, March 26, 2011

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Tony - See all my reviews

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This is a good idea, but unfortunately the product does not work too well. Two problems I've seen:

- Unreliable blocking. Sometimes the strip stops Roomba, sometimes not. Also sometimes Roomba gets stuck over the strip - if I understand correctly, roomba is thinking that this is a cliff and is stopping to avoid falling.

- The strip attaches to the floor using double-sided sticky tape. Unfortunately the tape does not hold well, and can easily separate when Roomba runs over it. Also the tape tends to stick to the hardwood floor and leaves marks.

Overall I would not recommend this product - better use standard virtual wall, or just block access with an obstacle.