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Matic is a $1,795 robot vacuum for people concerned about privacy (maticrobots.com)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Privacy (for robot vacuums) isn't cheap. via the Verge.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

This is cool but it would have to be like a third that price before anyone could take the leap. If anything someone should find some way to hack and replace the spyware in a Roomba or something

[–] LiveLM 21 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Well aren't you in luck, people are doing exactly that over https://valetudo.cloud/
Not for Roombas but on a couple Xiaomi/Dreame/Roborock models.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 9 months ago

I can’t wait to ruin my 700$ vacuume