Description
Firmware for a floor-cleaning robot sold for home use from 2003, read from a unit retired by its owners.
Provenance
Deposited by Inland Libraries, from its own collections. The card had sat unpowered for years; it was read at low voltage, several times. All of the work survives. The repairs are listed in the record’s damage map.
Preservation
- Fixity (SHA-256)
0c70c44576322123b132cbea68308b9adc1ee53888f67d79cb3f135fc910ed53- Last verified
- Oct 25, 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: Karst Robotics, Karst floor-cleaning robot: firmware 3.7 (2003). Lazarus Archive, LZ-26761.