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"…
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This is a shout out to all my students from the Duke TIP 2005 Robotics class! These guys just spent the last three weeks spending 7 hours a day building robots. That's hard core. Congratz are also in order for the originator of the curriculum, and my co-instructor, Ken Boone. We spent the …
I first found out about the Leaf Project about a one month ago when John Edwards showed off his newly constructed base for a robot built on the open source Leaf Project - A robotics project using artificial intelligence and vision. I later contacted John via e-mail to get his input on the project.…
Update: iRobot is going to relase the "hacking kit" sometime in November I was flipping through Business 2.0 and came across this about the Roomba: Ever wish you could dispatch a robot to grab you a beer? That day might soon be here, thanks to an as-yet-unannounced decision by iRobot. In e…
