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SwitchBot has annoucned the Floor Cleaning Robot S10 that you can plumb into your water system so it can automatically fill and drain itself.

The Roomba 694 is iRobot's least expensive robot vacuum and an excellent budget-friendly floor cleaner that supports app and voice control, and lets you schedule cleaning runs.

But using very low cost processes and silicon. this vacuum robot is running new software developed by slamcore, which builds up a map using vision instead of lidar. this allows the software to more intelligently work out notjust how far it is from stuff, but what that stuff is and whether it's likely to stay there. when it knows where it is, it needs to know what are the obstacles in its way, where is it free space, is it going to crash if it tries to go through a certain space? the next level of spatial intelligence is knowing how the world around you is shaped just from a geometry point of v...

Capture with a camera. we're able to access that spatial information, but using very low cost processes and silicon. this vacuum robot is running new software developed by slamcore, which builds up a map using vision instead of lidar. this allows the software to more intelligently work out notjust how far it is from stuff, but what that stuff is and whether it's likely to stay there. when it knows where it is, it needs to know what are the obstacles in its way, where is it free space, is it going to crash if it tries to go through a certain space? the next level of spatial intelligence is know...

The problem with lidar is if you want high performance, they're extremely expensive, can be thousands of dollars. so that's not going to cut it for commercial products at all in the consumer space. but then, the low—cost ones, which you see on many of the consumer products out there just are very unreliable. they degrade over time and they also capture a tiny amount of spatial information compared to the amount of information you capture with a camera. we're able to access that spatial information, but using very low—cost processes and silicon. this vacuum robot is running new software dev...