alt Hacker Newsi watched via camera 12 years ago roomba spreading my dogs diarrhea all over living room (thanks god to tile floors). I connected to camera first time in a months just few seconds before roomba took first swipe over the poop. Still remember feelings of paralysis, despair and lack of control.
Despite this i still used roomba everywhere I lived.
latest roomba model actually has "poop detection".
The camera based object (and poop) avoidance actually works pretty well in my Roomba j7+, bought in 2022.
The cloud-based software for everything else has degraded in quality, tjough. I'll probably upgrade to a lidar-equipped competitor model if this continues to get worse after this bancruptcy.