{"id":13883,"date":"2021-08-10T05:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-08-10T05:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/?p=13883"},"modified":"2021-08-10T05:52:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-10T05:52:41","slug":"with-alexa-integration-and-mapping-irobot-aims-to-make-roomba-the-center-of-the-smart-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/with-alexa-integration-and-mapping-irobot-aims-to-make-roomba-the-center-of-the-smart-home\/","title":{"rendered":"With Alexa integration and mapping, iRobot aims to make Roomba the center of the smart home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to TechCrunch, iRobot CEO Colin Angle\u00a0has been repeating for some time now that the next step in the evolution of the company\u2019s hit Roomba vacuum is becoming\u00a0a connective tissue for the smart home. This morning\u2019s announcement from the company takes it a couple of steps closer to that dream, introducing Alexa voice integration and advances to the robotic vacuum\u2019s mapping system that lay the groundwork for future smart home upgrades.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"iRobot\u2019s Roomba gets dirt maps and Alexa integration\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YJjDu_RVWts?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to TechCrunch, iRobot CEO Colin Angle\u00a0has been repeating for some time now that the next step in the evolution of the company\u2019s hit Roomba vacuum is becoming\u00a0a connective tissue for the smart home. This morning\u2019s announcement from the company takes it a couple of steps closer to that dream, introducing Alexa voice integration and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13884,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[85,40],"tags":[99,54,100,101],"class_list":["post-13883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-information","category-tips-and-tricks","tag-alexa","tag-interactive-interiors","tag-irobot","tag-roomba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13883"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13950,"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13883\/revisions\/13950"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interactiveinteriors-av.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}