Researchers hacked a robotic vacuum cleaner to record speech and music remotely – Tech Xplore

A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as microphones.
The researchersincluding Nirupam Roy, an assistant professor in the University of Maryland’s Department of Computer Sciencecollected information from the laser-based navigation system in a popular vacuum robot and applied signal processing and deep learning techniques to recover speech and identify television programs playing in the same room as the device.
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