WHAT FRESH HELL IS THIS? Google wants to improve your smart home with iRobot’s room maps. “Google and iRobot have announced they’re working together to improve smart home technology using mapping data collected by iRobot’s robot vacuums. The two companies say the aim is to make smart homes ‘more thoughtful’ by leveraging the unique dataset collected by iRobot: maps of customers’ homes.”

For what it’s worth, I have a non-WiFi-enabled Neato Botvac and have been quite happy with it.