Any update on a black rug workaround?

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Vacuum cliff sensor bypass

I have owned several robot vacuums beginning with the first generation of Roomba and one of the frustrations that I have encountered universally across all brands is the problem with the cliff sensor thinking that a dark rug or a dark pattern in a rug was a cliff since it absorbed the ir light instead of reflecting it. There needs to be a way to turn off cliff sensors for single story homes and/or a better solution which would be ‘safe areas’ in the mapping. The second choice would be more funct…

And someone has a video at

https://forums.wyze.com/t/robot-vacuum-has-tough-time-on-this-carpet/162711

There’s another somewhere with a swirly pattern.