Rhoomba Selling Floor Maps

The roomba 960 robot vacuum seamlessly navigates room to room to clean an entire level of your home recharging and resuming until the job is done.

Rhoomba selling floor maps.

The roomba craze may not be as popular on the internet anymore but irobot reportedly has a new strategy in place. It knows the floor plan of your home the basic shape of everything on your floor what areas require the most. Despite that oversight the roomba 980 does have more power than its predecessors. That smart vacuum creates its own map of your house so it won t knock over your lamps.

Roomba 960 loosens lifts and suctions dirt with up to 5x more air power and requires less maintenance. Providing roomba gathered maps of your home to other smart device makers. Using its updated software iadapt 2 0 and two new sensors the 980 will actually learn the floor plan of your. High end models of roomba irobot s robotic vacuum collect data as they clean identifying the locations of your walls and furniture.

The ceo of irobot which makes the automatic vacuum told reuters that his company is considering giving the data roombas have collected in customers homes to companies like google apple and amazon. Some of the roomba models use a camera to create spatial maps of the interiors of people s homes and the reuters article mentioned irobot s plans to sell the maps to major tech companies like. Two years ago the highest end roomba models added cameras and sensors that enabled the robovacs to quietly build maps of users homes while at the same time the robots were dutifully engaged in. Your roomba may be vacuuming up more than you think.

Roomba s next big step is selling maps of your home to the highest bidder. Irobot s actually been mapping your house since 2015 when it released the roomba 980.