My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.
Colin AngleAround the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.
Colin AngleIts going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.
Colin AngleHollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.
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