Not the first time either
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Lol! I want to see the video of it jumping up to get to the roll! 
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You must have young kids in the house that leave the paper touching the ground.
BTW, your roll is on backwards!
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Master bath, don't let kids in 
Who cares what direction it's in. We have a bidet!!
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Give that lefty a break will ya?
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My robot vacuum is in love with the recliner chairs. No matter where in the house you start the robot, it aims right for the underside of the chair and gets stuck. It sits there and spins its little wheels until the battery dies.
I have tried about everything I can to stop the robot from being attracted to these chairs, and it doesn't help. I have tried stuffing towels under the chair, carboard boxes behind the chair, putting other objects in the path of the robot and so on. All that does is make the robot bash its little bumper against the objects in the way of the chair.
I end up babysitting the robot, and it really doesn't save any time because I could have vacuumed in about 1/32 of the time I spent getting the robot to sweep the whole room.
It looks like this most days...
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We have 2 and for the most part they're useless when you have kids. Almost anything on the floor stops them dead. Nerf darts, legos, phone charging cords etc. It's rare that they make a full pass.
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Do either of yours have the newer LiDAR scanners on top? Those are supposed to help a great deal to avoid obstacles (such as the dreaded fresh 
).
I got mine right before they started putting that on the Shark brand and I wish I had it but oh well going to ride this one out till its dead. But, it does force to have a clean floor, every morning have to pick up all the dog toys and kids shoes, etc.. forces the upkeep. If thats done mine has no issues 99% of days and it does its thing while I'm working.
Nope... These are a few years old
Nope, mine is only a year or so old, but it doesn't have the extra Lidar and other obstacle sensors. Just the front camera, the drop sensors, and the bumper sensor.
I am not convinced that extra sensors are the complete cure for the "quirks" of a robot vacuum. It probably helps, but there seems to be a lot of programming and logic issues with some of these devices. There are tons of complaints for every brand about the mapping going berserk, for example. Patterned floors and carpet seem to freak out even the best robots.
At this point I think they are still largely a novelty, unless you live in a show home with no people, no pets, no cords, furniture with 1 foot tall legs, and so on.
Yeah through some legos, nerf darts, and some phone cables around the room and just wait..
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To be fair, a normal vacuum can't deal with stuff like legos either. But the robot vacs are advertised as taking away all the work, you just push the button and voilà clean house! (yea right!)
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I guess I have a show home, we have 4 cats, 2 dogs and 2 kids. Kids are old enough to make minimal messes but still leave junk on the floor. I have it run every weekday. You can see the hair buildup over the weekend and it has some work to do on Monday. The "30 day" self empty dustbin fills up every week (mostly hair).
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We have a GSD. By the end of the day he's shed another GSD.... We have a dyson and he can choke that
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LiDAR is super important. It's what I waited for prior to purchasing. Having the ability to create zones for it to avoid was a critical feature I wanted.
I ended up getting a Deebot Ozmo 937. This was an older model that was discounted, but it was one of the last of the older models that was capable of running their latest mapping software. Performance has been great. Fast and quiet. No random patterns when cleaning, which is really helpful when you want to be in area that it's cleaning. Easy to move around it.
Connection was pretty simple, so I can ask Alexa to clean a specific room in whatever way I want to ask.
This is the most important point in this entire topic, right?! 
First thing I noticed as well. 
Just be glad it's just toilet paper and not dog poop. We had that once...the most horrible mess all over the floor and on and inside the robot vacuum.
LOL. Many years ago, I used to train people on how to use a film imagesetter for printing. It could hold three different sizes of rolls and automatically rotate to the required roll for the job sent to it. One caveat was that you had to load the roll just like the correct way to install a toilet paper roll. This always got a chuckle and light hearted debate. Maybe some of my students even learned how misguided they had been up to that point.
Yeah, I think if that was an issue we had, I would have spent the extra coin for a poop avoiding robot, which as I understand it, very few are able to successfully accomplish.
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We’ve got the Deebot Omni X1 and it’s been working great for us. Just wish I had the newer model (X20 I think) that can raise its cleaning pads when getting to carpet! Always something new isn’t there…
We also have 2 of the previous generation (without LIDAR) or Shark. They have also work very well for us. (One per floor…) And that’s with a cat, a dog, 3 adult and one teen child in the house!
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Still have my original Deebot N79 (it's made of wood, powered by kerosene). Great little vac.
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Love it!
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