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iRobot deployed AI-based home mapping and navigation systems across its Wi-Fi-connected Roomba robot vacuums, enabling robots to build and remember floor plans of users' homes, navigate rooms systematically, and allow users to direct cleaning to specific rooms or zones. This capability has been progressively expanded since its introduction in the Roomba 980 in 2015.
Details
The foundational technology, called vSLAM (Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping), uses camera-based landmark recognition to build a spatial map as the robot moves. More recent models use iAdapt 3.0 Navigation with Imprint Smart Maps, storing maps of multiple floors and auto-labeling rooms. The Roomba Combo 10 Max (2024) added machine learning to create complete home maps seven times faster and automatically label room types. Maps are stored in the iRobot Home App and enable room-by-room scheduling, custom clean zones, and keep-out zones.
Products affected
Roomba 980Roomba i-seriesRoomba j-seriesRoomba s-seriesRoomba Combo seriesRoomba Combo 10 MaxBraava jet m6
Sources & Evidence
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Trace Foundation. (2026). iRobot: iRobot deployed AI-based home mapping and navigation systems across its Wi-Fi-connected Roomba robot vacuums, enabling robots to build and remember floor plans of users' homes, navigate rooms systematically, and allow users to direct cleaning to specific rooms or zones. This capability has been progressively expanded since its introduction in the Roomba 980 in 2015 (data as of 2026-07-09) [Data set record]. AI Trace. https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/7f2f6685-2768-4964-a117-d075245bec17. Accessed October 7, 2026.
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- https://www.aitrace.org/r/practice/7f2f6685-2768-4964-a117-d075245bec17
- Data as of
- July 9, 2026
- Last verified
- August 4, 2026
Other practices by iRobot
RecommendationiRobot deployed iRobot OS across its Wi-Fi-connected Roomba and Braava robot products to analyze each user's cleaning history and habits and offer personalized schedule recommendations, suggested clean zones, and keep-out zone proposals through the iRobot Home App. This platform launched publicly in August 2020 as iRobot Genius and was rebranded as iRobot OS in May 2022.Data AnalysisiRobot deployed Enhanced Dirt Detect Technology in the Roomba Combo 10 Max (2024), adding camera-based visual analysis to existing sensor-based dirt detection so the robot can spot dirty floor areas and make multiple cleaning passes in those spots up to eight times more frequently than previous models.OtheriRobot deployed PrecisionVision Navigation, an AI computer vision system, in select Roomba robot vacuums to identify and steer around household obstacles such as pet waste, charging cables, socks, and shoes during cleaning runs. The feature is available on Roomba j-series and Plus 500 models sold globally.
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