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iRobot is likely to collapse within 12 months. (www.theregister.com)
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Troubled robot vacuum-cleaner maker iRobot, abandoned by Amazon after regulators effectively doomed the web giant's takeover offer, has warned investors it may not survive the next 12 months.

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[–] psoul@lemmy.world 14 points 14 hours ago (1 children)

I assume this will brick all Roombas past the 800 series. All the scheduling, advanced mapping features etc are hosted on AWS. You’ll be able to press clean to start but that’s pretty much it… That’s unless they open up their software which they probably won’t

[–] peoplebeproblems@midwest.social 5 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

If it bricks my i7 room a I'll just take it apart and make it work somehow. It will take a long time but worst case scenario it goes from a brick to a brick

[–] psoul@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago

Something happened when they moved to the vslam (i.e camera mapping) robots which made the software much harder to hack… you used to be able to use a serial cable to program them.