ABC News, for instance, was able to get full control over one of the robots, including the camera. One victim of this week’s hacks was a Minnesota lawyer named Daniel Swenson.

Robot vacuums in multiple US cities were hacked in the space of a few days, with the attacker physically controlling them and yelling obscenities through their onboard speakers. The affected ...

Assuming it was just a glitch, Swenson reset his password and rebooted the vacuum. The robot quickly started moving again, with its speaker blaring racist slurs loudly in front of Swenson’s son.

ABC News in Australia reports that there were recently multiple instances across the U.S. when owners of Ecovacs vacuums noticed their devices acting unusually. “It sounded like a broken-up ...

Enabling the remote control to pick up puts the app into a camera view from the robot vacuum's viewpoint. From there, you can use the joystick-like touchscreen controls to move the robot and the ...