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#News(General) [ via IoTForIndiaGroup ]
In 1990, fresh out of MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab, Colin Angle co-founded iRobot, a company best known for that friendly little robot vacuum the Roomba. In the early years, Roomba was unprofitable, and the majority of iRobot’s profits actually came in from military and defense contracts. That changed over time, and in 2016 iRobot divested itself its military and defense work to focus on robots for the home. Angle talked to Intelligencer about how he made the decision to divest from military projects, the difficulty in finding a new home for the defense division, and how his decision to focus completely on the Roomba means there’s now a robot vacuum that can empty itself.
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