household robots

While the machine uprising may not be upon us just yet, a group of University of Washington researchers has conducted a study on the various threats to security and privacy that household robots currently on the market could introduce to our homes. While their findings found little to fear in the way of an I, Robot-esque revolt, it turns out common household robots can open a home to various security and privacy threats, mostly via web-enabled features that are supposed to make the robots more useful.

Let Scooba loose, and it will not only vacuum but also squirt, scrub, squeegee, and suck your floor drya first for household robots. By condensing the device's components, iRobot kept the bot to the size of a 3.5-inch-high dinner plate. $400