Roomba Wants to Start Mapping Your Smart Home

Your robot vacuum cleaner could be mapping your home. And the company who manufactured your robot vacuum cleaner could be planning to sell your floor plans to the highest bidder. This is according to the CEO of Roomba, the best-known brand of robot vacuums available right now. Robot vacuum cleaners are surprisingly popular. The Roomba has been around since 2002, and iRobot, the company which makes the Roomba, has a market value of $2.5 billion dollars. And now it’s in people’s homes, the company wants to make use of the data those Roombas are collecting… Your Roomba Know Where You...

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