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Tag Archives: roomba
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 [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity
Tagged colin angle, home robots, house robots, irobot, Packbot, roomba
2 Comments
iRobot Unveils Smarter Roomba and Smaller Scooba (video)
iRobot is proud to announce some new additions to their family. The reigning champions of robot vacuuming are looking to [...]
Neato’s Robot Vacuum Cleaned My Home, Yours Could Be Next (video)
Unlike most robot invaders, Neato‘s XV-11 didn’t leave my house a flaming wreck. That’s probably because it’s a vacuum. The [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Robots
Tagged domestic robots, household robots, Neato Robotics, robot vacuum, roomba, SLAM, XV-11
22 Comments
Samsung To Launch New Robot Vacuum in Europe…but it’s no Neato (video)
Samsung’s newest robot vacuum, the Navibot, looks and acts like an improved Roomba. It sports the same round shape but [...]
iRobot Swabs the Deck of the USS Freedom
Some of the newest robots to join the US Navy aren’t spy planes or attack drones, they’re house cleaners. According [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged Chief Miles O'Brien, CS3 Scooba Stevens, irobot, ITSN Unger, non mission critical roles, roomba, Scooba, US Navy, USS Freedom
2 Comments
Suck it up! Neato Is Ready to Kick Robot Vacuum Butt
It’s been more than seven years since iRobot introduced the world to the Roomba robotic vacuum. Seven years without fundamental [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged irobot, Neato, Neato Robotics, patrick de neale, robot vacuum, roomba, simultaneous localization and mapping, SLAM, XV-11
35 Comments
Woomba – A Robot Just For Women (Video)
Update: did not realize hulu doesn’t work for international viewers. Go here if the hulu video below does not work [...]