What is the cause of these mysterious "crop circles" found on a carpet?

Several commenters said the circles were probably caused by a robot vacuum navigating around the piano legs. That seems like the most logical, and least fun, reason.

That was my initial assumption - I was briefly misled by the stock photo used in this post, but upon seeing the actual photo, that really seems like the most likely answer, given the various irrelgular marks.

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