Rhoomba Selling Floor Maps

Your roomba may be vacuuming up more than you think.

Rhoomba selling floor maps. Providing roomba gathered maps of your home to other smart device makers. Two roomba models the 960 and 980 map the interiors of homes to more efficiently hoover up dust. Despite that oversight the roomba 980 does have more power than its predecessors. The roomba craze may not be as popular on the internet anymore but irobot reportedly has a new strategy in place.

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. Roomba 960 loosens lifts and suctions dirt with up to 5x more air power and requires less maintenance. Roomba s next big step is selling maps of your home to the highest bidder. 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. Irobot s actually been mapping your house since 2015 when it released the roomba 980. That smart vacuum creates its own map of your house so it won t knock over your lamps. It knows the floor plan of your home the basic shape of everything on your floor what areas require the most.

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. Just press clean or schedule roomba on the go with the irobot home app.