Even the little Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner morphed into a programmable robot called Create and made the list.

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And when you're all done, you've created a programmable robot that can follow trails, avoid obstacles and react to changes in light.

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Trower's second stage of robotic development includes simple, single-purpose robotic devices like the Roomba or Looj, along with toy robots like WowWee's Robosapien or Lego Mindstorms, a set of programmable robot-building pieces.

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Essentially a robotic invention kit, Mindstorms comes complete with a programmable CPU, motors, primitive inter-robot networking, sensors and a software development suite.

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