Most other cleaning robots are geared towards commercial applications for large buildings, rather than home robots.

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The company is seeing strong demand for both its Roomba and Scooba lines of home cleaning robots, as well as its military robots.

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Why is iRobot, purveyor of the Roomba and Scooba home-cleaning robots, making a three-to-five-foot tall robot with an Apple iPad for a head?

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His firm is best known for its vacuum cleaning robots.

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Robotics manufacture iRobot, which manufactures cleaning robots such as the Roomba, Looj and Scooba, announced today that it has acquired Evolution Robotics, which manufactures the Mint cleaning robot.

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Two cleaning robots are suspended from the end walls.

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His research has resulted in the development of the first self-cleaning, dry adhesive and a number of gecko-like robots, including Stickybot, a mechanized lizard developed by Stanford University engineers that can climb up windows and walls using its own adhesive appendages.

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