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Colin Angle on Why Home Robots Failed Before and Why AI Changes Everything
Home robots have been promised for decades.
Most of them did not fail because the ambition was too small. They failed because the technology was not yet good enough to understand people, adapt to real homes, or earn a place in daily life.
In this episode of Automated, Brian Heater speaks with Colin Angle, founder and CEO of Familiar Machines & Magic and co-founder of iRobot, about why this moment in robotics feels fundamentally different.
After helping define consumer robotics with Roomba, Colin is now focused on a new category of robot built not just to perform tasks, but to understand…
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