…aaaaand this is why I shoot anything with a camera or wifi enabled that doesn’t explicitly need it.
Camera makes sense for mapping. But that could surely be done on a raspberry pi
I have an 880 that works just fine - no camera, no wifi. Comes with a remote and when it bumps into something with its soft rubber bumpers it adjusts its trajectory and keeps going
Why can’t you assault and harass innocent strangers remotely without the racial slurs? What is the world coming to
Personally if I was the hacker I’d chase the people around with it shouting “EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE EXTERMINATE!” I think that would be tasteful
Copied from another thread on the same topic:
Yeah so we were visiting friends in Germany and the father was all proud to show us how he surveiled the (young adult) children and their friends with the vacuum camera while they were out.
Needless to say that was super creepy and for sure we thought our room might be ‘bugged’ so we didn’t talk about it until we were (far, far) away.
SkyNet is coming. When it’s AI controlling the robots instead of hackers, watch out!
To be serious though, I’ve got a robot vac that’s pretty dumb by today’s standards - no camera etc. It hasn’t had a firmware update for ages, so if it was hacked, I’m dubious the company would fix such an old model. The one benefit is that I think it’s so old and dumb, I think I can actually run it without connecting to a network. But I would lose app control and the ability to change any settings.
I find they are all dumb. I spend more time helping the stupid machine get unstuck from under the couch, pulling random crap that gets stuck from its brushes. I basically needed to follow it around the house which defeated the purpose of automatic. It never gets used as it’s faster to do it myself. AND the bigger vac is quieter than the dumb thing.
we have an ol’ 880 that does the rounds every other day - it’s very very good for keeping on top of the dross. Doesn’t replace the big vacuum, but it does cut down on the number of times we have to vacuum per week, keeps the walkways clear and eats all the cat fur. Ours is brushless though, I’ve tried a brushed version, it’s a piece of shit that chokes.
