‘It’s a cage match’: Beleaguered iRobot founder says the biggest reason why the Roomba-maker failed was because of growing Chinese competition

The marketplace was not a level playing field,” Colin Angle said, noting China has incentives and discounts for consumers who ...

MIT roboticist calls out Elon Musk for 'pure fantasy' vision of humanoid robot assistants: '[They] will be long gone and mostly conveniently forgotten'

"A lot of money will have disappeared, spent on trying to squeeze performance, any performance, from today’s humanoid robots.
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The Roomba failed because it just kind of sucked

Opinion Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are trumped by accountancy's First Law of Finance: you must make money. iRobot, the company behind the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, is in Chapter 11 bankruptcy, ...
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Psychic leads hit-and-run victim's son, CPD to clue about crash

Tanja Safforld cut across a gas station lot, taking a shortcut to the store. She never made it across the busy South Side ...
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Airbrush basics: How to properly hold your airbrush

Holding the Airbrush I offer tips and advice for developing a good, solid and comfortable grip when holding the airbrush. I ...
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How CNET Tests Robot Vacuums

CNET has been testing robot vacuums for years, but we're always refining our testing procedures. Here's the process we use to evaluate robot vacuums for cleaning, navigation performance, obstacle ...
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Our Exclusive Lab Data Shows Which Robot Vacuums Combine Cleaning Power With Good Object Avoidance (It's Not Many)

Robot vacuums have steadily improved their cleaning performance and object avoidance over the years, but during our testing at CNET Labs, we discovered an odd trade-off.