That's mainly what the built-in "AI camera" feature is for. Technically I don't need it - I don't have pets, I don't leave stuff lying around on the floor, and I usually make it to the toilet on time.

I am curious though if I can model a dog turd out of something and have the robot recognize it properly....

Now you could probably attach a raspberry pi with a camera and a coral tpu to a cheaper robot, spend a week trying to get the TPU to work with its dependency hell (or use one of those cameras with object detection built in), and then probably not have much more control other than to pause the robot just in time. That might end up costing more than just to upgrade to a robot with poop detection that can automatically circumnavigate them.

Maybe just stop shitting on the carpet.

Spat my tea out on that comment!

Old habits die hard

Put a diaper on it!

My vacuum has often lost various parts around the apartment whenever it got caught on something, but so far it has never shat on the floor. It is quite a fancy one so that's expected.

I found this just yesterday! I'm sure one could build something better with recent models, but I think the approach is solid.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWZu3rnj-kQ