iRobot: Colin Angle. How The Roomba Became a Household Icon

Certainly the dream. Was Let's be honest, we were promised robots. We we humans were promised robots. Yes.

We were gonna build robots. And Everyone asked for a robot vacuum cleaner from the very first day. Wait. when you would meet people, they'd say, Oh, when is Rosie like from the Jetsons?

gonna be in my house. When are you gonna clean my floor? Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements. They built. Guy Roz and on the show today, how Colin Engle set out to make robots part of our daily lives.

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