We temporarily interrupt the regular broadcast of this blog with a special public service announcement. There seems to be some confusion out there about the term “robot”. A robot such as Roomba is an autonomous physical device, that is, one that makes its decisions based solely on its internal state and sensory history and is not controlled remotely. Therefore, all those devices that you see in those Battlebots shows (of course the show producers would like to pretend otherwise, as a show with a
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If you find yourself loving or hating iRobot customer service, you really are loving or hating The Jay Group, iRobot’s invisible partner on the other end of the phone line. Tags: iRobot, robot
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Meet Roboty. That’s what NG named him. She was very disappointed when he came out of the box looking like a flying saucer. Not like what she thinks a robot would typically look like. She asked S to shut her bedroom door last night so the robot wouldn’t come in while she was sleeping. Roboty has been busting his ass for us all day. Poor guy is taking a well deserved nap. Bowie was chasing Roboty around pressing his buttons like it was the best game of tag in the world. NG took to imitating Rob
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