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Colin Angle Biography

iRobot Corporation is an American advanced technology company founded in 1990 by three MIT graduates who designed robots for space exploration and military defense. Incorporated in Delaware, the company designs and builds consumer robots for inside and outside of the home, including a range of autonomous home vacuum cleaners (Roomba), floor moppers (Braava), and other autonomous cleaning devices.

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When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute; we wanted people to take it seriously, so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that, but they do it anyway.

Built, Cute, Encourage, Names, Robot, Thinking

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.

Home, Numbers, Special, Way

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one. ' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie. '

Lines, Motor, Robot, Robots, Support, Took

One of the big things coming out of healthcare reform is a thing called the Community Living Assistance Services and Supports Act (CLASS) which is a mechanism to reimburse people staying at home for technology and services that allow them to stay at home.

Act, Community, Community Living, Home, Reimburse, Technology

We learned that very few people care how you accomplish something. Instead, these people care more about whether you create value for your end user.

Care, Create, Ends, People, Value

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

Hollywood, Ideas, Mechanical, Robots

I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.

Believe, Day, Medicine, Play, Role

The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.

Cupboard, Needs, People, Purpose, Robots, Vacuums

There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.

Decision, Difficult, Entrepreneur, Opportunities, Opportunity, Top

My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.

Focused, Priorities, Promise, Touch, Vision

The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.

Actual, Cool, Difficult, Moving Forward, Taken, Technology

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

Cost, Opportunity, People, Robots, Somebody

At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

Distance, Operated, Risk, Rough, Team, World

"Star Wars" was the right movie for me. I watched the MSE-6 droid leading the stormtroopers where they needed to go when they were under attack, and that got my attention much more so than C-3PO and R2-D2 because we could actually build that.

Actually, Attention, Movie, Stars, War, Watched

I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown. ' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

Age, Book, Fix, Fixed, Mother, Work

Its going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

Artificial Intelligence, Being Cool, Definitely, Interesting, See

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

Building, Expensive, People, Robots, Versions