My wife loved the first generation Roomba when she first received it, but I haven’t seen the little red bot getting much use. Maybe she’d use it more if she could program it to work while we were sleeping?

In August a $60 upgrade will make that dream a reality for second generation and later Roomba users, but not my wife it sounds like. The upgrade includes a pair of virtual walls to stop the robot from wandering, a serial cable for downloading new firmware.

“It’s as easy to program as a coffee machine or alarm clock,” said Gregory White, head of the consumer robotics division at iRobot, which unveiled the Scheduler at Wired magazine’s NextFest technology show in Chicago on Friday. (Wired magazine and Wired News are separate companies.)

The Roomba Scheduler is available for purchase from iRobot for $329 USD as of this writing.

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