If you want a picture of the future, imagine a Roomba leaking pix of your home, forever
Roombas already can detect and avoid objects, but recognizing exactly what those objects are is a different beast entirely. By streaming video from its cameras to a cloud-based object-classification system, it can tell whether the object in front of it is a bookcase or a TV stand, label it accordingly on a map, and share that detailed plan with next-generation home-infrastructure systems.
The camera system wouldn’t be the only modification necessary for the Roomba to create maps of your home. Because iRobot’s map-making system uses the cloud to analyze, recognize, and label objects, connectivity would need to be built into the robot itself or its charging dock.
Forget privacy. The future is about perpetual, persistent spying.
from Stowe Boyd http://stoweboyd.com/post/119939070717
