Rhoomba Selling Floor Maps

Using its updated software iadapt 2 0 and two new sensors the 980 will actually learn the floor plan of your.

Rhoomba selling floor maps.

Roomba 960 loosens lifts and suctions dirt with up to 5x more air power and requires less maintenance. High end models of roomba irobot s robotic vacuum collect data as they clean identifying the locations of your walls and furniture. 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.

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. Just press clean or schedule roomba on the go with the irobot home app. Despite that oversight the roomba 980 does have more power than its predecessors. Two roomba models the 960 and 980 map the interiors of homes to more efficiently hoover up dust.

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 company behind the roomba vacuum irobot corp has grand plans for its robot cleaners. 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 s next big step is selling maps of your home to the highest bidder. Providing roomba gathered maps of your home to other smart device makers.