EcoVax Divot X2S.
Amid a series of incidents in which Chinese-made robot vacuum cleaners hurl racist abuse at people, foreign media reports said the cause was "hacking."
According to the New York Post on the 17th (local time), a Chinese-made Ecovacs Debot X2s robot cleaner made abusive or racist remarks during operation.
Daniel Swenson, a Minnesota lawyer, told the New York Post, "While watching TV in May, I heard a 'sound like a broken radio signal' in a robot vacuum cleaner, and someone's voice seemed to be heard quietly."
Later, when I looked at the vacuum cleaner app, I found that someone hacked the live camera feed and remote control function of the automatic dust cleaner.
Swenson added, "I reset the password and rebooted it because it seemed to be a machine error, and from then on, sexual or racist abuse started pouring out from the vacuum cleaner, starting with 'F*CK'."
In Texas, similar cases have been reported that households using the same model of robot vacuum cleaner heard abusive language from robot vacuum cleaners. There was a case in Los Angeles of chasing and threatening family members and dogs.
It is not known how many products were hacked or who the hacker was, the New York Post reported.
Users have called for an investigation, raising the possibility that hackers may have diverted security devices to control cameras and microphones.
EcoVax said it had fixed the defect and would upgrade the device in November.
Reporter Lee Yu Na from Digital News Team.
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