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Briefing
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- Smart Home Collaboration – Vacuum robot company iRobot and search giant Google have partnered to better integrate iRobot’s products to Google Home, Google’s smart speaker
- Sample Applications – Include letting users say “Hey Google, clean the kitchen” to enable iRobot’s Roomba i7+ to clean specific room, or allow Google Home to identify and control lights in kitchen
- Data Collection – Roomba i7+ vacuum cleaner collects indoor floor maps of rooms and their assigned names as given by user to customize cleaning experience, which are then sent to iRobot’s servers via Wi-Fi but low-resolution images of homes stay on device
- Limited Google Access – Google does not receive information on layout or areas of home, except for names customers assign to rooms
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Accelerator
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Sector
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Consumer Durables, Information Technology
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Organization
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Google Inc., iRobot Corp.
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Source
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"iRobot and Google collaborate to advance the next-generation smart home,"
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Vincent, J., "Google wants to improve your smart home with iRobot’s room maps",
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Fingas, J., "Google and iRobot team up to better map your home",
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Pendlebury, T., "iRobot is working with Google to improve smart devices",
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AcceleratingBiz analysis
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Original Publication Date
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October 31, 2018
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