'Amazon wants to have its hands everywhere.'
"Amazon wants to have its hands everywhere."After Amazon's $1.7 billion acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot, the beloved automated vacuums now belong to Jeff Bezos, who probably wasn't being motivated by a passion for clean floors.
Rather, purchasing Roomba offers Amazon a very different opportunity: getting a detailed map of your home,All of Amazon's pre-existing wealth of smart home devices, though convenient, have the capacity to relay information about users back to Amazon — which can tellAnd now, having acquired data-laden Roombas — advanced versions of which are equipped with mapping technologies and cameras — Amazon will be able to get an even more in-depth picture of households everywhere.
"You can learn the behaviors of a household based on their patterns," Brad Russell, who tracks smart home products for researcher Parks Associates Inc, told. "One of the most foundational things is occupancy. There's a lot they could do with that."
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