Tag Archives: Roomba

There are already plenty of devices without a steering wheel! Think about the old Roomba, the autonomous vacuum cleaner introduced back in 2002 by iRobot. Well, it bumped on chairs and walls but that was not a big deal. Upon bumping it backtracked and changed its direction: no problem! Subsequent …

There is an interesting article on Spectrum discussing the paradigm shift undertaken by iRobot in their new software generation for their vacuum cleaners, the Roomba. The discussion really rung a bell since we have been discussing the interplay of autonomous systems with people at the FDC and back in 2018 …

If you want to see what an autonomous system can be don’t look any further than the new Roomba. Its model S9+ has all the defining characteristics of an autonomous, smart, system. I have been impressed by Roomba from its very first “edition” back in 2002. I should say I …

Learning technologies have been focussing on human beings and how to improve human learning. Significant advances have been made in the last decades leveraging computer and internet power compounded with the availability of more and more flexible, and ubiquitous, devices. This evolution will continue as more understanding on learning processes …

Production processing (not all of them but a growing number) are evolving in the direction of autonomous systems looking out for opportunity to deliver and ready to change their offer to meet the potential market. The designer remains a very important piece in this but the separation that used to …

It is no news at all that data are important and that we are flooded by data. Actually, it is exactly because it is no news that the ever increasing sources of data fall below our perception and that is a problem. Take something like a vacuum cleaner. The Roomba, …

Joe Jones was one of the researchers in the team that invented Roomba, actually Joe was the one providing the vision of a robot that was simple enough and affordable enough to be used in a home as vacuum cleaner. Roomba is probably one of the most successful robot ever, …