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Man accidentally gains control of 7,000 robot vacuums

Mack DeGeurin

created: Feb. 21, 2026, 2 p.m. | updated: Feb. 23, 2026, 1:20 a.m.

A software engineer’s earnest effort to steer his new DJI robot vacuum with a video game controller inadvertently granted him a sneak peak into thousands of people’s homes. While building his own remote-control app, Sammy Azdoufal reportedly used an AI coding assistant to help reverse-engineer how the robot communicated with DJI’s remote cloud servers. The DJI Romo. Like other robot vacuums, it’s equipped with a range of sensors that help it navigate its surroundings and detect obstacles. Controlling DJI Romo vacuum with a ps5 controller

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