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iRobot built over 100 models of dog poop to train Roomba's visual AI

2021-09-10 00:00:00

Apparently Roomba owners who also own dogs have long encountered a problem: If the dog poops on the floor, their helpful robot vacuum rides right over it and smears it across the living room.

So iRobot decided to build a visual-detection model to help Roombas recognize, and avoid, dog poop.

According to iRobot's promo video, and this story in Techcrunch, this involved building over 100 physical models of dog poop and sending employees home to photograph them on their houses' floors:
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