“Making sure robots are safe will be critical,” says Colin Angle of iRobot, which has sold over 2m “Roomba” household-vacuuming robots.

“确保机器人对人是安全的，这点至关重要。” 科林·安格强调，他所在的iRobot公司已经售出二百万台家用真空清洁机器人“Roomba”。

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“They represent incredible research and technology that’s then backed into an application” says Colin Angle, the CEO of iRobot, which makes domestic cleaning robots and military models.

“他们仅代表了高深莫测技术研究，距离应用还相当遥远，”从事家庭清洁机器人和军事模型制造的iRobot公司的首席执行官科林如此认为。

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As he mashes the joystick controls, Colin Angle grins like a 6-year-old boy playing with his first radio-controlled car, freshly torn wrapping paper thrown aside.

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Some people have devoted their lives to developing robots, such as Colin Angle and Helen Greiner, who founded iRobot with their academic adviser, Rodney Brooks.

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Its chief creator, Colin Angle, was an undergraduate at MIT when he built his first model, Genghis, the coolest robot ever seen up to that time (it was 1989).

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