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iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA

We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]

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Staying Home: Booming Success With Home Robots And Anticipated Cuts To Military Spending Has iRobot Looking To Shift Priorities

Hard economic times? Don’t tell that to iRobot. The maker of Roomba and Packbot just posted record earnings for the [...]

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iRobot Teams Up With Google – AVA Pedestal Robot With Tablet For A Head (video)

Finally Android tablets are going to be able to live up to their names. At the recent Google I/O conference, [...]

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iRobot’s AVA Has an iPAD for a Head

Faced with an intellectual problem you just can’t handle? Why not swap out your head for a different one? Oh, [...]

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PBS Discusses Kurzweil, The Singularity, and Bio-ethics

The Religion and Ethics News Weekly program on PBS recently interviewed Ray Kurzweil about his predictions for how humanity will [...]

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Will iRobot Produce the Healthcare Robot of the Future? I Have My Doubts. (video)

Colin Angle’s presentation at TEDMED this past year has me wondering about the future of home healthcare. According to the [...]

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iRobot Announces Healthcare Bot

TEDMED 2009 just passed and with it came some news about the future of robotics and healthcare. iRobot (Nasdaq: IRBT), [...]

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