Enlarge / The round lens of PrivacyLens captures standard digital video while the square lens senses heat. The heat sensor improves the camera’s ability to spot and remove people from videos.Brenda Ahearn, Michigan Engineering
Roombas can be both convenient and fun, particularly for cats who like to ride on top of the machines as they make their cleaning rounds. But the obstacle-avoidance cameras collect images of the environment—sometimes rather personal images, as was the case in 2020 when images of a young woman on the toilet captured by a Romba leaked to social media after being uploaded to a cloud server.
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