Description
Firmware for a floor-cleaning robot sold for home use from 2002, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Rescued from a skip outside a former office in Oakfold. Read with the owner’s consent and credentials. Nothing was bypassed. Everything was recovered, with a few damaged files repaired from a second copy.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
98a861bd1e57c538a4aa12ad8855561830c1db4557e2964dcd08122321d4c520- Last verified
- Oct 15, 2026, by Vigil
- Emulation profile
- LZE-ROBOT-2 · lz-mcu core
- Copies
- Three, on two kinds of storage, in two cities
- Original carriers
- Kept in cold storage in Vancouver
Access
Free, in the Lazarus reading room in Vancouver and in partner reading rooms.
In the reading room it runs in emulation under profile LZE-ROBOT-2, from a read-only copy of the recovered image, as it would have on household robots.
Cite as: Lode Robotics, Lode floor-cleaning robot: firmware 4.7 (2002). Lazarus Archive, LZ-17375.