Did Amazon Buy iRobot To Map Inside Your Home?

According to several articles, Amazon's purchase of iRobot could be to map the inside of your home to let marketers sell more junk because Amazon wants to know more about its customers.

The $1.7 billion purchase of iRobot Corp. by Amazon.com Inc. is a move by the multinational giant to use Roombas to map the interior of homes. Because marketers can simply develop customized ads if they are aware of what is contained in this data type, it is a digital gold mine for Amazon.

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