Domestic robot vacuum (Roomba)
Robot aspirador doméstico (Roomba)
- Date
- 2002 · confidence high
- Place
- iRobot, Bedford, Massachusetts, United States
- Credited to
- iRobot (Colin Angle, Helen Greiner, Rodney Brooks)
- Field
- Tools
What it is
The first commercially successful home robot, an autonomous vacuum cleaner with simple sensors and reactive behaviour. It brought robotics into millions of homes.
What it led to
- Autonomous appliances and the connected home
- The mapping of homes by robots and the resulting privacy concerns
- Service robots in hospitals and warehouses
Built on
- Vacuum cleaner1901–1908
- reactive robotics (Brooks)
- infrared sensors
- rechargeable battery
Made possible
- service robots
- robotic lawnmower