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 AngleWe learned that very few people care how you accomplish something. Instead, these people care more about whether you create value for your end user.
Colin AngleThe 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.
Colin AngleWhen we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute, we wanted people to take it seriously so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that but they do it anyway.
Colin Angle