Did You Know? I, Robot Didn’t Actually Start Off as an Isaac Asimov Adaptation

iRobot on Instagram: "We’ve got our eyes on the comments. Everyone tell The Cleaning Lad it did a good job! (And pass some compliments to your own hardworking Roomba® robot while you’re at it!)"

With iRobot in the news, it's worth remembering just how revolutionary the company was in bringing robotics into our homes. As part of the Massachusetts Tech Pioneers Oral History Project, we spoke with two people who were there when Roomba became a reality: Helen Greiner and Joe Jones. Helen, along with Massachusetts Institute of Technology CSAIL MIT partners Colin Angle and Rodney Brooks began iRobot as a small scrappy startup, building robots in Angle's living room at first. In these quick ex