Have you ever looked at your trusty Roomba, furiously working away to clean every inch of your room and think “It’s great, but . . .”?

If you have a list of things you wish your robot cleaner would do, and that could be possible with a little tinkering, the iRobot Create 2 might be a project worth taking on.

For $200, you’ll get a kit that you can programme to do almost anything your imagination can produce. Turn it into a roaming camera, transform it into a robotic DJ.

Or you could add some claw-like crushers and a buzz saw blade to it and pretend you're in Robot Wars. The choice is yours. irobot.com