I own a HEXA robot, I was a kick starter and paid a price for it.

When I first purchased the robot it never required phone GPS. And that now if you disable it at any point it disconnects you from the robot. It sits gaining dust because I wish not to use an IOS app with GPS enabled for no reason.

Questioning support to why this is required they said "people are happy with GPS on" and that was that.

I look at it sadly because it runs Linux, has full root access and so much potential. But, I just don't like the fact that could be potentially tracking GPS coords back to HQ.