After the acquisition, Paolo Pirjanian, CEO of Evolution Robotics, will join iRobot as its Chief Technology Officer.

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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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According to Evolution Robotics' chief executive, Paolo Pirjanian, who oversaw the development of Mint's software algorithms, tasks that come easiest to humans tend to be the most difficult for robots.

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Saad Khan is a Partner at investment firm CMEA Capital and leads their seed initiative and crowd-sourcing investments in companies like Pixazza, Blekko, Jobvite and Evolution Robotics.

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