As per reports in Australia, monotonous household chores were so much for a cleaning robot that it rebelled and made a firm decision to finish itself. The robot was given the boring job of cleaning up cereal that was spilled up before it mounted on top of a kitchen hotplate where it was damaged.

Fireman Helmut Kniewasser, who was called to deal with the fire at Hinterstoder in Kirchdorf, said, "Somehow it seems to have reactivated it and made its way along the work surface where it pushed a cooking pot out of the way and basically that was the end of it".

After catching fire, it soon started to melt and set at the bottom of the kitchen hotplate. The fireman added that the whole building had to be vacated and also caused a lot of damage mainly in the flat where the robot used to live.

It took an hour to clean and make the building safe and secure. The owner of the house plans to take legal action against the manufacturer of that robot. Robot named as Irobot Roomba 760 is manufactured to clean homes and do other household chores.

Homeowner Gernot Hackl, 44, along with his family is now living in their home in Kirchdorf, Austria. The home-owner had assigned the work of cleaning some spilled cereal to the robot. However, after the completion of work by robot, it was switched off, but was left on the kitchen sideboard.