
Imagine a still room in a London flat, the sudden whirring sound of a robot vacuum. Inside, there is a tiny camera that records every corner. A Spanish software engineer, Sammy Azdoufal, found himself able to see through not just his own unit but thousands of devices located around the globe.
Azdoufal had wanted to do something new with his DJI Romo vacuum cleaner. He experimented to get the device to react to a PlayStation 5 controller using artificial intelligence.