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>What we want is a robot that *cleans it up* not one
>that avoids it:
> |
> | The new Roomba uses AI to avoid smearing dog poop all over
> | your house
> | ...
> | Angle said iRobot spent years building a library of
> | pictures of poop, real and faux. The company began, he
> | said, by buying "all the realistic gag poop you can buy on
> | the internet," then branched out into making hundreds of
> | Play-doh poop models, which it painted brown and
> | photographed in different lighting and from different
> | angles. He thinks every iRobot employee with a pet has had
> | that animal's waste photographed from multiple angles.
> | ...
><https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/09/tech/roomba-ai-avoids-dog-poop/index.html>
>
> --bks
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