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.

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.

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

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.

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.