An R2-D2 Robot Vacuum Is Exactly the Chore Droid I’m Looking For

It’s staggering to think that Matthew Scott Hunter came up with a way to combine his love of clean floors and Star Wars before the marketing teams at Disney, Lucasfilm, and iRobot did. Using random household items he turned his functional robot vacuum into an Artoo unit that roams and cleans his home.

Inspired by a very droid-looking bin they spotted in a garage, Hunter started with a lightweight bin for his droid’s body and domed head, which was then upgraded with legs made of stiff poster board, and a bunch of random household items for details and greebling. Given the shape of the robot vacuum used for the droid’s front foot, Hunter couldn’t make a perfect replica of R2-D2, so instead opted to make a custom astromech droid, R9-D9, with a slick paint job that would make Iron Man tempted to ditch JARVIS.

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