Rhoomba Selling Floor Maps

Two roomba models the 960 and 980 map the interiors of homes to more efficiently hoover up dust.

Rhoomba selling floor maps.

Your roomba may be vacuuming up more than you think. Despite that oversight the roomba 980 does have more power than its predecessors. Just press clean or schedule roomba on the go with the irobot home app. Roomba s next big step is selling maps of your home to the highest bidder.

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. The roomba craze may not be as popular on the internet anymore but irobot reportedly has a new strategy in place. Providing roomba gathered maps of your home to other smart device makers. 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.

Roomba 960 loosens lifts and suctions dirt with up to 5x more air power and requires less maintenance. The company behind the roomba vacuum irobot corp has grand plans for its robot cleaners. 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. It knows the floor plan of your home the basic shape of everything on your floor what areas require the most.

Irobot s actually been mapping your house since 2015 when it released the roomba 980. 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.