iRobot CEO says the company won't share your Roomba home mapping data without your OK

Colin Angle, iRobot CEO and the father of modern robot vacuums, may have some cleaning up of his own to do.

In a recent interview with Reuters, Angle indicated iRobot might want to sell home mapping data collected by its Roomba robot vacuums to third party smart home product companies like Apple, Google, and Amazon in the future.

Angle said the Virtual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (VSLAM) data its popular Roomba vacuum uses to learn the dimensions and layout of your rooms and home could someday be used by other smart home devices to improve their intelligence and performance. Read more...