Rhoomba Selling Floor Maps

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.

Rhoomba selling floor maps.

The maker of the roomba robotic vacuum irobot has found itself embroiled in a privacy row after its chief executive suggested it may begin selling floor plans of customers homes derived from. 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. In time maybe i ll try starting the i7 in a different place on the floor but on the known map just to see how it handles it. The maker of the roomba robotic vacuum irobot wants to start selling mapped floor plans of customers homes to google amazon and apple the.

Roomba could cut a deal to sell these maps to amazon google or apple later this year jan wolfe reports for reuters. 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. I really wish there was an ability in the app for the user to unset the training complete status on a map unlock the map to tell roomba to keep roaming the floor space it knows about in the hope it would eventually find the open doors and extra rooms that it somehow missed during initial training. I guess it s up to the human to put it back in the same place.

Robot burglars had better not get any ideas. It knows the floor plan of your home the basic shape of everything on your floor what areas require the most. That smart vacuum creates its own map of your house so it won t knock over your lamps. Well for the first run on a new floor it knows where the start and finish point is but what about that second and further runs.

Providing roomba gathered maps of your home to other smart device makers. There s an entire ecosystem of things and services that the smart home can.