The best known is the Roomba, made by iRobot, an American company which has sold more than 3m of the frisbee-sized vacuuming robots.

而这当中最著名的，要数iRobot公司出品的Roomba了，这家公司已经售出300多万台这种飞盘大小的真空吸尘器。

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“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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Lightning--or rather, lint--didn't strike until 2002, when Irobot debuted the Roomba.

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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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But no worries, none of the three robovacuums I tried out--the Karcher RC3000 RoboCleaner , the Electrolux Trilobite and the Roomba Discovery from iRobot --are on the verge of giving an old-fashioned upright a run for its money.

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