• Midnight Wolf@lemmy.world
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      8 hours ago

      No, none do that I’m aware of. They stuck with vslam for navigation, and later a camera pointed at the ceiling.

      Neato (and later competitors) used lidar while irobot proudly marched on into extinction. Their absolute-asshole cs staff as well as those cs policies didn’t help them in this regard.

    • RogueBanana@piefed.zip
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      20 hours ago

      Oh true, could replace the OS with something better and have it do detection. Not sure if there would be open ports on the board but could attach an esp and have the roomba send commands on wifi or bt. Willing to accept funding for further reasearch, serious funders only.