A regular guy over in Spain tried to hack his own vacuum cleaning robot, but instead he accidentally hacked into 7,000 different vacuum robots, giving him direct access to the live video feeds within people's homes across 24 different countries.

Basically, he discovered a back door within these Chinese robots, which meant that

if you happen to have one of these vacuums in your home, he, as well as anyone else who knew about

this special feature, could literally see inside of your home through the camera lens that was

at the very top of the unit. Let's go through the details of this case together because even

though, I mean, beyond this particular

brand of robot, it also exposes the broader risk of outfitting our homes with all these

different smart devices that are constantly listening in, monitoring, as well as physically

watching us. We assume that there's no human on the other end, but more and more anecdotal cases are showing us that there are.

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So to start with, the overview of how this robot takeover happened in the first place,

it came across

my desk in the form of an article within Popular Science magazine. It was titled,

Man Accidentally Gains Control of 7,000 Robot Vacuums. If you happen to want to read that

full original account, I will link that article down in the description box below. Now, the robot in question here is a DGI brand Romo vacuum robot.

Now D.JI is a popular Chinese brand known for their civilian drones.

But recently, they began to manufacture these autonomous home vacuums as well.

And they're not cheap. They retail for about $2,000. And the way that they work is they

basically collect data from around your house, creating a virtual map of the floor plan in order to clean it.

Quote, like other robot vacuums, it's equipped with a range of sensors that help it navigate its surroundings and detect obstacles.

In order for the romo, or really any modern autonomous vacuum, to function,

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