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Re:Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Y... by brandensilva on Monday December 15, 2025 @02:18PM (#46279036)
I figured this would happen given how crap Roombas have been since they fired or lost all their engineering talent years ago.

So I went with a roborock since it is superior but completely blocked it from ever communicating outside my home.

Works great, there are plenty of ways to modify roborock vacuums and load up other software even.

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Re:Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Y... by jamesrr39 on Monday December 15, 2025 @04:16PM (#46280777)
> modify roborock vacuums and load up other software even.

Can you provide more info/got any links? I would love to try some open source software on it

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Re:Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Y... by fredfilz on Tuesday December 16, 2025 @06:06PM (#46295957)
Lol was thinking the same. Btw if you're into sensors, keen to chat. I'm the founder of crewline.ai, just raised our seed and are bringing on a couple key founding engineering hires.
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