Comment on iRobot’s revenue has tanked and it’s almost out of cash | "Roomba customers are understandably concerned about the impact these current financial troubles might have on their home cleaning robots."

• wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Afaik there is extremely limited storage on these bots, so the floor plan is stored server-side. No cloud, no server, no no-go capabilities.

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  • Passerby6497@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Given how cheap flash storage has been for years, this is an intentional design choice. They wanted it to be server side only, likely for data collection purposes.

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  • iopq@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    If only we had things like 1tb storage in a tiny chip

    I hope one day we could develop something like this

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    • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Line no go up if consumer has autonomy and awareness. Quick, marketing drones, put up more information about our amazing and very complex and totally unique super mega ultra cloud!

      ✨ profits ✨

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  • B0rax@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The rommbas? Maybe. The other ones? They have plenty storage.

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