Smashing cereal into the office carpet, he would unleash the Roomba on the mess.
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The Roomba's tune is heroic, John Phillips Sousa, a battle charge, which seems appropriate.
The company has sold 2 million Roomba cleaners and, since Christmas, thousands of soap-bearing Scooba moppers.
When it finishes cleaning, the Roomba finds its way back to its charging cradle.
The Roomba uses a more powerful version of the artificial intelligence in Angle's original Genghis bug-bot.
For example, a connected Roomba might post a status saying that its bin is full.
Even the little Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner morphed into a programmable robot called Create and made the list.
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The robots were the Roomba, a disc-shaped autonomous vacuum cleaner, and four anthropoid machines of varying degrees of humanness.
The Roomba-like design, which we first saw in November 2011, is the result of a collaboration with Complubot.
Her company makes the Roomba, a robot vacuum cleaner, but it has also already developed two robots for the battlefield.
Just a few inches high, the Frisbee-size Roomba rolls drunkenly across your floor, bumping into walls and chairs seemingly at random.
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From its lowly beginnings in housework (think: Roomba), robotics are fast tracking up the ladder of importance in everyday lives.
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The Roomba knows where it has already cleaned, adjusts vacuuming technique based on particles it encounters, and even detects and avoids stairs.
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They also manufacture the now famous Roomba that automatically vacuums your home.
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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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Building on technology used in the Roomba, the RP-VITA can travel autonomously to a specific room or even follow a patient, rerouting based on obstacles.
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Lightning--or rather, lint--didn't strike until 2002, when Irobot debuted the Roomba.
And instead of a drag on the bottom line, Roomba has subsidized the development of what Angle hopes is the next big step for iRobot: health care.
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More importantly, Hector, unlike so many other robotic projects that emerge from labs or universities, is proving that commercialization to mass market is feasible beyond a Roomba.
Roomba is what happens when robo-wizardry collides with practical needs.
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.
And I was having a little trouble concentrating by that time anyway, what with casting nervous glances at my Roomba and mentally fitting my living-room windows for reinforced steel safety shutters.
The device, which resembles a Roomba vacuum cleaner, attaches itself to a pane, maps out its perimeter and proceeds to clean the surface, playing a tinny tune when the work is completed.
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.
The standout product here is the HOM-BOT, a sort of souped-up Roomba, that not only can direct itself, but also comes with some interesting data and camera visualization tools you can access through your smartphone.
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These robots--whether designed to cut your grass or merely to keep you entertained--are luxury items, and with the exception of the relatively inexpensive Roomba robotic vacuum, they are owned mainly by hobbyists and high-end gadget enthusiasts.
Chief amongst them is the Wireless Command Center, an oblong remote control useable from anywhere in the home that lets users steer the Roomba, send it back to its base, schedule a cleaning and adjust its clock.
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The present generation of factory robots is akin to early mainframe computers in offices, reckons Rodney Brooks, a co-founder of iRobot, an American firm whose products include the Roomba, a robotic vacuum-cleaner, as well as military robots.
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