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Roomba maker iRobot swept into bankruptcy (arstechnica.com)
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Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.

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[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 day ago

Hopefully work on opensource firmware getting going like https://github.com/koalazak/dorita980. Seems more movement in the server side though https://github.com/ia74/roomba_rest980

Another option is hardware hacking it https://github.com/meech-ward/roomba/tree/main

Tbh the amount of cameras and microphones we have that upload to external unaudited servers ("the cloud") is insane to me. This is just further worry about it since the scheme allowed their ownership over our devices and privacy, which means they can also sell that.