I am thinking of getting a robot vacuum. But I think I read a lot of them send a lot of information about the goings on of your house back to the company. And I want no part of that. Which companies should I avoid or look at. And anything else I should worry about besides the “does it work” part?
Look for older models. Mine just mindlessly runs various patterns and beeps when its stuck or out of power. Nothing else. No app, no floor plan of my appartement, no wifi. For several years now.
If you want app control and an individual vacuum route for your appartement and such things, I guess the data collection is part of the deal. The smarter your electronics are, the more they know about you.
I had a Roomba that was cloud connected (when AWS has an outage, it doesn’t work at all).
It still just mindlessly ran various patterns and beeped when it got stuck, which was all the time. Piece of shit.