Most other cleaning robots are geared towards commercial applications for large buildings, rather than home robots.
Home Robots is expected to grow roughly 20 percent this year and comprise 90 percent of total company revenue.
FORBES: iRobot Shares Slide; Q1 Outlook Misses Street Estimates
More than 8 million of the company's home robots have been sold worldwide, helping people find smarter ways to clean.
ENGADGET: iRobot flaunts the Mirra 530 pool cleaning robot, sends the Looj 330 abroad
"Mirra 530 features the latest in pool cleaning technology and an easy-to-use design, bringing yet another state-of-the art solution to iRobot's line of home robots, " said Jeff Beck, chief operating officer at iRobot.
ENGADGET: iRobot flaunts the Mirra 530 pool cleaning robot, sends the Looj 330 abroad
The company is seeing strong demand for both its Roomba and Scooba lines of home cleaning robots, as well as its military robots.
FORBES: iRobot: No Dangers Here, Will Robinson; Q4 Tops Estimates
Older kids can participate in the FIRST Technical Challenge with home build robots, and high school teams build larger robots from scratch for the FIRST Robotics Challenge (FRC).
Last month, Japan's ministry of trade and industry announced a set of safety guidelines for home and office robots.
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?
FORBES: CES: iRobot's Telepresence Bot, Ava, Has Emotions [Video]
His company, Anybots, aims to produce general-purpose robots for home use.
Startups nurtured in the Verizon family include a company providing robots for home health monitoring and a company connecting all the devices in a home for remote access and control.
Inside a sheltered greenhouse, however, robots feel more at home.
There is also a home version of one of the most famous robots in recent history - R2D2.
The long-term goal is to build robots that will make people more productive at home and at work, just as personal computers do today, Wyrobek says.
FORBES: Personal Robot For Sale. Needs Some Training. $400,000 To Good Home [Video].
It is a menagerie of home-constructed machines including boats, planes, architectural constructions, and prize-winning robots.
"Robots will be practically everywhere in the near future: assisting the elderly, in home care, as personal and security service providers, and they will circulate within a networked environment of communicating devices in the home and work place, " said Ohad Shvueli, Vice President, Commercial markets, Primesense.
应用推荐