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September 1, 2016

iRobot CEO thinks way beyond Roomba

  • Colin Angle is reviving iRobot's original 1990 goal: building the kind of useful, everyday robots we've spent generations imagining in books and movies.
    • By MATT O'BRIEN
    Associated Press reporter

    iRobot
    Colin Angle said he never imagined when he co-founded the company 26 years ago that it would change the way the world views vacuuming.

    BEDFORD, Mass. — The clash this year over the future of iRobot pitted visionary robotics against the retail success of the company's Roombas, the circular-shaped domestic helpers that have cleaned millions of living rooms around the world.


     
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