2025-11-12 23:25

Dear undersigned, I recently stumbled over this post on reddit from two years ago: www.reddit.com/r/NeatoRobotics/s/ho9TLQ9UQz

The user claims to have successfully installed a Vorwerk Kobold firmware on a Neato BotVac.
This is very interesting, since it's a sign that Neato's vacuum robots are technically very close to Vorwerk's robots.

That shed's a very bad light on Vorwerk: Instead of keeping "two cloud services" alive, they could also just patch the Neatos to work on the Vorwerk cloud. But obviously they prefer to waste the Neatos - in order to generate new sales?

Please do share the petition and this news - we need to get the pressure up on this topic!

P.S.: I clearly do NOT recommend to install the Vorwerk firmware. The author of the post states that a connection cannot be established afterwards. But I am sure Vorwerk could easily provide a modified firmware that allows the Neatos to register with the Vorwerk cloud. It's a matter of will.