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iRobot Cofounder Helen Greiner Interviewed

Posted by simoniker on from the fresh-princess dept.

ptorrone writes "Engadget has interviewed Helen Greiner, Chairman and CoFounder of iRobot. She talks about the future of home robotics, the new self-docking Roomba Robot Vacuum as well as their other line of robots, the PackBots. iRobot's PackBot unmanned reconnaissance and bomb disposal units (the interview includes a photo of a blown-up PackBot from Iraq). Plus, for the curious, the Packbot is running a Linux OS with iRobot's Aware robot control software."

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  1. What about killbots? by October_30th · · Score: 4, Funny
    the Packbot is running a Linux OS with iRobot's Aware robot control software

    I'm still waiting for a Killbot running a Linux OS.

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  2. Rogue robot hacks slashdot! by Eric(b0mb)Dennis · · Score: 4, Funny

    A rogue AI infected the popular Slashdot news outlet this morning. The infection led to major downtime and a pretty buggy restart.

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  3. Poor Little Thing by grunt107 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The iHorror!!!

    It needs a posthumous purple-hued titanium heart.

  4. Vacuum for nerds with clear floors? by HDlife · · Score: 4, Funny
    I have a Roomba and it is great...but I have to pick up the floor before I use it. It does not like my miles of network, phone, and A/V cables strewn about.

    Now if iRobot came out with an un-Packbot would open the UPS boxes that stream in containing the latest semi-cool gadgets found on Techbargains, and put them away, that would really be cool!

    Even better, it would fill out the rebates and recycle the boxes and packing peanuts!

  5. What you say? by mikeophile · · Score: 4, Funny

    She's invented an autonomous robot that sucks on command?

    Oh, it's a vacuum cleaner.

    Someday, someday...

  6. Hope the Army got the extended warranty by CarrionBird · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't think the store will take that one back.

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  7. cool new Roomba model by jeffehobbs · · Score: 3, Insightful


    iRobot is a cool company; if you need replacement parts for your Roomba, the friendly people on the phone are more than happy to mail them out post-haste to you.

    So the new Roomba models head back to their base to recharge themselves. That's really cool. But can they be put on a timed or daily schedule? That would address the top two questions I got asked about my first-gen Roomba.

    ~jeff