# 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