We learned that very few people care how you accomplish something. Instead, these people care more about whether you create value for your end user.

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.

One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home.

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.