News.com has done an excellent interview with iRobot’s
Colin Angle. About Roomba, Angle says the “… company has shipped 1.2
million Roombas”, and that, “… we’ll be announcing an API of sorts
for it.” That confirms our earlier post about it.
On the "dissing Japan"
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://community.robotshop.com/blog/show/interview-with-colin-angle-of-irobot