I caught the original post on threads, took one look and said “roomba” and then promptly dug through looking for confirmation. Eventually saw the OP admit to having a Roomba but that couldn’t be answer because it was old and barely worked.
Being that the old crappy roombas were in fact the very ones without proper mapping, making it even MORE likely to be the culprit not less, I washed my hands of it.
The old roombas just ran around randomly until it hit something the left or right bumper. I figure a defective side bumper switch, little bot hits the post on the defective side and just goes in circles not realizing what has happened.