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- Cleaning up at CES--Scooba the thinking mop
- iRobot goes beyond the vacuum cleanerAt the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we see the new electronic mop. CNET's Tom Merritt is floored by what the Scooba can do.
- Tags: Scooba
- Videos 2006-01-07
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- Could robots become the open source hardware target?
- Could robots become the open source hardware target?OSS on Robots is Already HereRobots that are used to defuse IEDs in Iraq and Afghanistan already run Linux:http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=109That's right the same company that brought you the Roomba is the exclusive contractor of SUGV Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle robots to the military.http://www.irobot.com/sp.cfm?pageid=219Hay were...
- Tags: Robots, robot, hardware, UP System, Bug Labs, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-03-07
- IRobotSoft (zip)
- IRobot is the Internet-robot engine for Web automation and Web computing. Completely automatic Web recording. Create your own IRobot Web agents to automate everything on the Web. Support Web data integration and computation. Batch form submissions. Share your Web experience with your friends. IRobot is all you need for Web...
- Tags: iRobot Corp., Web, Channel Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-01-17
- Paul Saffo: The Seer of Silicon Valley
- In a Super Techies interview, technology forecaster Paul Saffo explains his technique for predicting future technology trends. He also discusses how he got started in the forecasting game and shares his biggest hits and misses. Paul predicted that next big thing to come out of nowhere and astonish consumers will...
- Tags: Robot, Robots, Emerging Technologies, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-12-17
- Photos: Cracking open the iRobot Roomba
- Follow along as TechRepublic's fearless Scott Wolf exposes the insides of an early-model Roomba. by CNET News.com
- Tags: iRobot Corp., iRobot Roomba, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-17
- News to know: XP's stay extended; iBricks; Google; Gateway One
- Notable headlines: Microsoft extends Windows XP's stay. Mary Jo Foley: Is Windows XP too good for Microsoft's own good? George Ou: More facts and less hysteria on Vista, please Jason O'Grady: iPhone firmware 1.1.1 released; breaks everything. Ryan Naraine: Apple patches 10 iPhone...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Gateway Inc., Microsoft Corp., DoubleClick Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Software
- Blog posts 2007-09-28
- Photos: iRobot phones home, cleans gutters
- Two vastly different robots unveiled at DigitalLife offer practicality and Jetsons frivolity for the home. by CNET News.com
- Tags: iRobot Corp., Phone, Photograph, Home, Robots, Telecom & Utilities, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-09-27
- Singularity Summit 2007: iPod of the future
- Rodney Brooks is the Panasonic Professor of Robotics at MIT and CTO of iRobot. From 1997 - 2003 and from 2003 - 2007, respectively, he was Director of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and Director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. He knows a lot about robots, AI...
- Tags: Professor, Apple iPod, Massachusetts Institute Of Technology, Rodney Brooks, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?
- The fate of the human species depends on AI Artificial Intelligence entities far smarter than us and who aren't prone to wipe out or enslave us. That is one of the topics to be discussed by luminaries in the AI world at the Singularity Summit 2007 held at the Palace...
- Tags: Artificial Intelligence, Intelligence, Dan Farber
- Blog posts 2007-09-08
- Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?
- Can 'friendly' AI save humans from irrelevance or extinction?Message has been deleted.IMHO this is distant futureI doubt I'll see this type of intelligence in my lifetime. We're still a long ways off from understanding our own intelligence, much less designing a machine that surpasses it.Sure, we may have machines that...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Robots, irrelevance, computer, extinction, mankind
- Discussion threads 2007-08-24
- iRobot's Angle on the future: More profit
- iRobot's Angle on the future: More profitLove My RoombaI've been using a Roomba for a while, and love it. It's not, unfortunately, a replacement for a "real" vacuum, but it's great for keeping things clean between the times when I can get out the Oreck.Its algorithms for covering the entire...
- Tags: Robots, iRobot Roomba, iRobot Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Photos: iRobot's new 'robust' Roomba
- New Roomba 500 series vacuuming robot gets corners and takes direction without sucking in rug fringe or loose wires.On Wednesday, iRobot plans to release a new generation of vacuuming robots to the public.CNET News.com got a chance to test out iRobot''s new Roomba 500 series ahead of time and got...
- Tags: Robots, photograph, iRobot Corp., iRobot Roomba, subsystem, robot, Roomba 500, modularity, dust, dirt, homeowner, firmware, staff writer, incarnation, C, CEO, battery, Web
- Image galleries 2007-08-21
- Photos: Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea
- Unmanned vehicles allow military, researchers to explore dangerous areas without putting people in harm's way.Sleek robotic aircraft may have been the scene-stealers at this year''s Association for Unmanned Vehicles International AUVSI show, but land vehicles are also playing an important role in military operations. This ruggedized PackBot, made by iRobot,...
- Tags: photograph, Unmanned Vehicle, helicopter, catapult, aircraft, iRobot Corp., BAE Systems Plc., Northrop Grumman Corp., researcher, MLB, zoom, Lockheed Martin Corp., U.S. Army, complement, camera, Mountain View, Iraq, robot, display, monitoring, government, image, Sony Corp., pho
- Image galleries 2007-08-09
- Birth of RoboCop? iRobot sells taser-wielding robots to police, Pentagon
- Birth of RoboCop? iRobot sells taser-wielding robots to police, PentagonRoomba with an attitude..."Lift your feet, [b]NOW![/b]"
- Tags: Robots, Robocop, iRobot Corp., Pentagon, robot
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- Birth of RoboCop? iRobot sells taser-wielding robots to police, Pentagon
- Although RoboCops aren't walking the neighborhood beat yet, one vacuum cleaner manufacturer has joined forced with a stun-gun manufacturer to develop robots for police forces and the Pentagon, reports the Associated PressiRobot Corp. is hoping that soldiers and law enforcement will embrace the idea of a taser-wielding robot as a...
- Tags: Defense, Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- ZDNet names next Deputy Testers of the Week to get free tech: Some Sun Spot JDKs
- Wow. Of the three weeks we've been running the Deputy Tester program at ZDNet, this week has by far proven to be the most difficult one in terms of picking the winners to receive this week's giveway: two Sun Spot Java Development Kits valued at $550 each.For starters, we only...
- Tags: Wired &, Wireless, Software Infrastructure, Product Giveaways, Hardware Infrastructure, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-08
- Create your own robot
- Watch an iRobot concoction in actionFrom CES 2007: Bryan Adams, an iRobot senior researcher, gives CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos a demo of the iRobot Create, which lets users hack the popular hardware and program their own robot. Watch an example of what the robot is capable of as it attempts...
- Tags: iRobot Corp., robot
- Videos 2007-01-12
- Photos: Creating a customized iRobot
- iRobot is releasing the iRobot Create, a programmable robot for entertainment and education.
- Tags: iRobot Corp., education, robot, entertainment
- Image galleries 2007-01-07
- iRobot readies for war--and the household
- iRobot readies for war--and the householdlike the movie "I, Robot"the personal servant robots, which did everything... we're just on our way.I think I'll stick to the version which doesn't upgrade all the time automatically, just so that I don't need to worry about the robot revolution.
- Tags: Robots, robot, iRobot Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-29
- Photos: Scooba in the house
- CNET News.com reporter Michael Kanellos lets the floor-scrubbing robot loose in his home.
- Tags: robot, Michael Kanellos
- Image galleries 2006-10-31
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