With futuristic technology helping us in our daily tasks, consumer robots tend to play a prominent role.“ iRobot ” is such an American innovative company that designs and deploys consumer robots to help people perform their day to day tasks easily.
Let’s have a look at how it all started. iRobot is a public corporation, founded in 1990 by “Rodney Brooks”, “Colin Angle” and “Helen Greiner”, three graduates of MIT. Its headquarters is located in Bedford, Massachusetts.
The first ever robot developed by the company was “Genghis” in 1991. Its purpose was to serve as a test platform for researchers. It is currently exhibited at Natural Air and Space Museum (NASM), in Washington DC, USA.
Since the beginning of time, this robotics company has deployed many helpful robots to the market to make people’s daily lives easier. There are many different types of robots available in the market in the present context. Let’s take a look at some of the developed consumer robots.
“Roomba” a robot cleaner, that is designed for you and your home.
It has the ability to sweep the corners of houses which people find hard to reach. It has dual counter-rotating brushes which efficiently removes dirt, dust, and debris from floors. You can have a customized cleaning experience and view the cleaning history.
It can be connected with Amazon Alexa and the Google Assistant and you just have to speak up to get the cleaning done!
“Braava” belongs to the family of mopping robots,
“Cleaner floors. Fresher home. Every day.”
It has a jet spray and a vibrating cleaning head that loosen dirt and stains while Braava pads breakup and lock away dirt.
iRobot “Mirra” is a pool cleaning robot.
“The underwater robot removes the debris you can see and the hidden stuff you cannot”- Forbes. Mirra has a deep cleaning ability that removes all the dirt particles and bacteria as small as two microns. Because of Mirra, pool cleaning never has been easier.
iRobot Looj 330 Gutter Cleaning Robot, it is able to blast away leaves, dirt, and clogs while brushing gutters clean.
It’s skilled in performing difficult and uncomfortable jobs for you. It has two operational modes; Manual mode and Automatic CLEAN mode. The user can select the manual mode and control the robot or just push the CLEAN button and let Looj travel down your gutter on its own where it senses and adapts to debris to provide a more effective cleaning facility.
From the origination of iRobot in 1990 by MIT roboticist, it has grown to become a leading global consumer robot company in the present-day. There have been sales of more than 15 million robots worldwide and more than 25 years of leadership in the robot industry.
Forging a new path entirely of home cleaning, iRobot stays committed to developing new social robots that can save people’s precious time and allow people to engage in their day to day activities in a relaxed manner.