Join our daily and weekly newsletters for the latest updates and exclusive content on industry-leading AI coverage. Learn More (Reuters) — The Roomba robotic vacuum has been whizzing across floors for ...

The Genius 4.0 update brings smart-mapping capabilities to the Roomba i3 Series and new object recognition abilities to the Roomba j7 Series, among other fresh features. I'm PCMag's managing editor ...

iRobot CEO Colin Angle has been talking about his company’s plans to map user homes with the Roomba for a while now, but a recently published Reuters interview has raised a number of new privacy ...

Neato Robotic’s Botvac is no longer the only robot vacuum cleaner capable of mapping the rooms it’s assigned to clean. iRobot’s new Roomba 980 can now accomplish the same feat, albeit in a slightly ...

As some robot vacuums suck up dirt and hair off your floors, they also use a combination of software and hardware to create a map of the room, allowing for more efficient cleaning. The technology ...

iRobot, the maker of Roomba vacuums, wants to sell mapping data from inside your home to Amazon, Apple, or Google, for the next frontier -- the smart home. Speaking to Reuters, CEO Colin Angle said ...

iRobot’s Roomba series is easily among the most well-known names in the vacuum world. While the Roomba 980 debuted nearly 2 years ago, it still tends to outperform many of the newest robot vacuums in ...

iRobot Corp. today announced that it has started rolling out its iRobot Genius 4.0 Home Intelligence software update to Wi-Fi connected Roomba robot vacuum and Braava jet robot mop customers. The ...

A week ago Reuters published an interview with Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot, the company that makes Roomba robot vacuum cleaners. Some of the Roomba models use a camera to create spatial maps of the ...

Editor's Note, August 8, 2022: Back in 2017, we conducted an exclusive interview with iRobot's CEO Colin Angle about Roomba privacy issues. Last week, Amazon announced its acquisition of iRobot, which ...