History in pics: Testing prototype Roomba's in 1982. It would take two decades until they could be made small enough to clean under a couch.
@SwiftOnSecurity looks like they were testing it to validate its interaction with washing machines in this picture for some reason?

@glyph @SwiftOnSecurity

before they had the internet to work with they had to roll their own protocols for what we now know as “internet of things”

at least these seem to recognize the S in IoT stands for security