Hacked robot vacuums hurl racial slurs at shocked owners, who react with ‘fear, disgust’

These vacuums had no filter. U.S. homeowners were shocked when their Chinese-made robot vacuums were hijacked and rewired to bombard them with racial slurs. The racist hack attack affected Ecovacs Deebot X2s — a brand that’s manufactured in China — across several American cities, per ABC News Australia. Minnesota lawyer Daniel Swenson said he was watching TV in May when his robo-vacuum started to emit sounds that initially “sounded like a broken-up radio signal or something,” he told the outlet. “You could hear snippets of maybe a voice,” recalled the...