The Roomba is a robotic vacuum cleaner made by iRobot Corporation. The Roomba robot was first released in 2002 with updates and new models released every year since. The name "Roomba" is a portmanteau of "room" and "rumba". Maybe because of the way it dances around the room as it works. As of January 2008, over 3 million units had been sold.
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 ROOMBA ROBOT - Bing News Updated : Robotic Rat to the Rescue - Science Now To test whether this accumulation of evidence model might help robo-rodents better interpret sensory information from their whiskers, Lepora's team attached whiskers to a Roomba, a small, round robotic vacuum that can move independently around rooms. Publ.Date : 2012-01-24T23:57:59Z Can a robot improvise comedy? - Click2Houston.com In one, four iCreate robots -- Roomba vacuum cleaner-type machines -- were put through the paces of Samuel Beckett's play "Quad." It's a wordless, scripted piece that focuses on movement, but there's enough randomness in the staging for the ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-06T13:26:57Z Robot Nurses, Robot Doctors - Big Think Toyota has recently displayed its idea for robotic nurses and powerful exoskeletons are enabling the paralyzed to walk. By combining the navigation technology iRobot developed for the Roomba, "medical telepresence robots may not just be a staple ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-04T16:21:07Z XBox-Controlled Military Robot Can Lift 150 Pounds [VIDEO] - YAHOO! The domesticated Roomba may be iRobot's most well-known creation, but it's not the company's only popular robot. The PackBot is a much smaller machine that American military troops carry like a backpack before deploying for tasks such as neutralizing ... Publ.Date : 2012-02-08T04:20:33Z This Week In Bots: Roboplayers, Robodancers, Robowarriors, And The Delicate Ethics Of Robosex - Fast Company Would you love your Roomba more if it had rat-like whiskers? How about if it saved people's lives in post-disaster situations? Yeah, us too. Teaching robots to play sports is a clever way to advance the science of robotic movements, environment sensing ... Publ.Date : 2012-01-26T23:55:37Z Increase Search Engine Traffic |
