DJI’s ROMO 2 brings drone-grade obstacle sensing to the studio floor

Dust is the quiet enemy of every studio. It settles on backdrops, finds its way onto sensors, shows up on a white cyc under a hard key, and turns a clean product shot into twenty minutes of spot removal. DJI has announced the ROMO 2 at IFA, and while a robot vacuum is not obvious Camera Jabber territory, keeping a studio floor clean is a genuinely unglamorous part of the job. Details are on the DJI website. What DJI brings to a vacuum cleaner The reason DJI’s move into robot vacuums is more interesting than it sounds is that the underlying problem is one it has already solved elsewhere. A drone that avoids obstacles autonomously and a vacuum that avoids furniture are doing the same job with the same sensors, and DJI has been refining that for a decade. The ROMO 2 claims millimetre-level obstacle sensing capable of detecting objects...