Colin Angle: iRobot

Colin Angle is the CEO and co-founder of iRobot, a robotics
company that for 29 years has been creating robots that operate
successfully in the real world, not as a demo or on a scale of
dozens, but on a scale of thousands and millions. As of this
year, iRobot has sold more than 25 million robots to consumers,
including the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot, the Braava floor
mopping robot, and soon the Terra lawn mowing robot. 25 million
robots successfully operating autonomously in people’s homes to
me is an incredible accomplishment of science, engineering,
logistics, and all kinds of entrepreneurial innovation. This
conversation is part of the Artificial Intelligence
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