A Brief History of Roombas with Fart Spray
- 1988: Joe Jones builds the "Rug Warrior," an early robotic vacuum prototype, at MIT's AI Lab; enters it in the Robot Olympics
- 1990: Rodney Brooks, Colin Angle, and Helen Greiner found iRobot (originally "IS Robotics")
- 1991: Joe Jones becomes iRobot's first employee
- 1996: Electrolux demonstrates the Trilobite, the first robotic vacuum, on BBC's Tomorrow's World
- 1999: Roomba development begins in earnest
- 2001: Electrolux Trilobite goes on sale for $1,600; struggles with navigation
- 2002: iRobot launches the Roomba at $199; sells 150,000 units in 18 months
- 2003: Dr. Franz Wang attaches a fart spray canister to a Roomba in MIT lab
- 2004: One million Roombas sold
- 2005: Roomba with fart spray escapes from home
- 2006: Schools ban Roombas after fart spray incidents
- 2007: Cute video of Roomba with fart spray learning to waterski circulates online
- 2009: Roomba arms race begins; militaries stack Roombas like those Goomba towers in Super Mario Odyssey
- 2011: Germany invades Europe with army of Roombas with fart spray with colored balloons like that old man from Up
- 2012: Extra potent fart spray invented that can ruin an entire Thanksgiving dinner
- 2013: Roomba loses trademark because nobody wants to say "robot vacuum"; people also realize how weird it is that they somehow trademarked "iRobot"
- 2014: Elon Musk announces Roombas with fart spray with full self-driving will be launched last year
- 2015: Roomba marriage permitted by California
- 2016: First Roomba with fart spray sent into space
- 2016: Dyson's Roomba with fart spray can remove ancient curses from your carpet
- 2017: Senator Lindsey Graham found to be a Roomba with fart spray
- 2018: The 34th Amendment bans the consumption of Roombas with fart spray for culinary, recreational, and religious purposes
- 2019: Estimated that 1 in 4 people are actually fart spray Roombas
- 2020: Colony of wild Roombas discovered on Mercury
- 2021: Fart spray Roomba DNA cures sleep
- 2021: CNET awards DJI Roomba with fart spray FPV racing drone a 9/10: "the kids will love it as much as the adults"
- 2022: Roomba with fart spray beats Joey Chestnut by eating 74 hot dogs in three short minutes at Nathan's annual hot dog eating competition
- 2023: Nuclear-powered fart-spray Roomba meltdown makes Japan uninhabitable
- 2024: CDC warns against crushing and snorting Roombas
- 2024: Archaeologists uncover ancient Mayan Roombas with fart spray
- 2025: Roombas develop resistance to penicillin
- 2026: Ecologists reintroduce Roombas with fart spray to their natural habitat
- 2027: Roombas with fart spray are room-temp superconductors
- 2028: U.S. passes $4T bill to build high-speed Roomba fart spray infrastructure
- 2029: Roombas found between consecutive prime numbers, disproving the Riemann hypothesis
- 2030: Ghosts of Roombas with fart spray haunt old abandoned houses
- 2031: Extra powerful fart spray invented that can kill a baby parrot
- 2032: Roombas with fart spray linked to increasing teen suicide rates
- 2033: Bryan Johnson becomes first person to do full Roomba blood transfusion
- 2034: Roombas spontaneously learn how to clean up their own droppings
- 2035: Florida man dies after hiring a lawnmower escort disguised as a fart spray Roomba
- 2036: Scientists shoot billions of Roombas into the sun just to see what would happen
- 2037: eBay flooded with fake Roombas that are actually just raccoons wearing plastic shells
- 2038: Roombas with fart spray found in bloodstream of remote Amazonian tribes
- 2039: Curiosity rover found with fart spray canister attached; origin unknown
- 2040: Apple announces new (RED) Roomba for Bono's charity thing
- 2041: Roombas with fart spray successfully map the entire ocean floor
- 2042: Quantum Roombas with fart spray can probabilistically clean tough spills
- 2043: Roombas made from 100% recycled aluminum and Kobe beef sirloin
- 2044: Fart spray Roombas reopen the hole in the ozone layer
- 2045: $FART coin becomes world reserve currency
- 2046: Roombas with fart spray become dominant pollinators after the extinction of honey bees
- 2047: Genetically-modified Roombas with fart spray approved for human consumption by FDA
- 2048: Roombas with fart spray released with giant touch screens; fun new way to watch your favorite shows
- 2049: Roomba survives 6 months on human kidney transplant
- 2050: Amish population finally embraces Roombas with fart spray
- 2051: Open-source Roomba with fart spray gets perfect iFixit teardown score
- 2052: A Roomba with fart spray climbs up stairs
- 2053: CIA declassifies evidence that Roombas with fart spray were behind the Kennedy assassination
- 2054: Square Roomba models evolve via natural selection; homeowners worldwide celebrate clean corners