heading home. exhausted. must shower, call mom, eat, and get in BED! # Roomba keeps just returning to its dock when I tell it to spot-clean. # …I guess it doesn’t feel like cleaning! # Trying to catch up on some of @boundnotgagged’s tweets from earlier, w/ Robert Jensen # @sadieup - My Bionic Eyes (Liz Phair), Eye in the Sky (Alan Parsons Project), and I second @rustytanton’s suggestion of Hungry Eyes # @sadieup - Also, it might be too obscure, but Always Something There To Remind Me was done b
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Home Robot Manufacturer Goes Direct In one of the most unstable economic situations since the 1930’s, and faced with major home electronics dealers like Circuit CIty radically slashing their brick and mortar stored, iRobot Corp has decided to take direct action. The company, which is famous for it’s award winning line of domestic robots including the Roomba, Scooba, Looj, Dirt Dog, and others, opened it’s first direct retail sales outlet on Friday. The new iRobot kiosk is located in the Burli
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When it comes to playing instruments, the only metal in most orchestras is usually, well, the brass section. The Honda Asimo first challenged this when it conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Another step forward in the movement for robots to interact with human functions would the WF4IV, a robot developed by Waseda University. Its primary function is playing the flute, and some might even think it can double tongue (no pun intended) better than most humans. So much for practicing! Rob
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The company’s first retail kiosk, which we noted earlier, is now open at Burlington Mall in Massachusetts, the company announced.What is particularly heartening is that the company indicated that this is the start of a new retail strategy, calling this the “first” retail kiosk. Readers will know I have been agitating for Apple-like stores to demonstrate the utility of robots to a skeptical public (just as Apple stores demonstrate the Mac Os to skeptical PC users) for years.Clip:Visitors to the i
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Do Roombas Dream of Electric Dust Bunnies? Posted by Candace Lindemann in Gear, Housework, Technology | November 7th, 2008 | Comments(5) » We, by which I mean my giant, furry, black cat and I tested out the iRobot Roomba 532 ($350), part of Roomba’s new pet series and this is really an amazing little robot. People love their Roombas (yes, those are Caroling Roombas).  And Roomba love must be contagious because I could not bring myself to type “appliance” instead of robot.  Although I am
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iRobot Receives Additional $3.5 Million Order From US Army Epicos.com (press release), Switzerland - 41 minutes ago iRobot Corp. (Nasdaq: IRBT) today announced it has received an order totaling $3.5 million under a contract with the US Army Program Executive Office for …

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