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Turn Your Roomba Into a Household Google Bot

Posted by timothy on from the check-the-pantry-from-the-store dept.

Wael Chatila writes "By adding an on-board computer and a camera on a Roomba, the Roomba can be used to index your home. As a bonus, you can also control the Roomba across an internet connection, and see the images from the camera — a spybot for you to check on your own home while you are out."

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  1. In (un)related news... by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny

    As a bonus, you can also control the Roomba across an internet connection, and see the images from the camera -- a spybot for you to check on your own home while you are out.

    Just announced: The Lower Merion School District of Pennsylvania is now giving their students free Roombas ...

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    It must have been something you assimilated. . . .