Roomba creator responds to reports of ‘poopocalypse’: ‘We see this a lot’

Robotic vacuum cleaner is said to run over animal feces and continue its cleaning cycle around the house, spreading the mess over 'every conceivable surface'

Jesse Newton found out the hard way what happens when a robotic vacuum cleaner encounters a dog turd, and it isn't pretty.

Newton's Roomba is scheduled to clean the living room of his home in Little Rock, Arkansas, at 1.30am each day, so that the family wakes up to a clean space. That all changed this month when his puppy Evie had an accident on the rug during the night, leading to what he described as the "poopocalypse".