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Colin Angle

It's going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

— Colin Angle intelligence

Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.

— Colin Angle intelligence

When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.

— Colin Angle understanding

The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.

— Colin Angle purpose

At the World Cup, there is a constant risk that you might find a bag or some object that has been left behind, and no one is quite sure what it is. To bring in a full bomb-disposal team for each item can be very time-consuming. The PackBot can go over rough terrain, climb stairs, pick things up, and also be operated from a safe distance.

— Colin Angle time

I learned to canoe at summer camp and thought I'd pursue Olympic whitewater canoeing. In my senior year of high school, I instead decided to attend M.I.T. I like to say I've had only two jobs in my life: whitewater canoeing instructor and wilderness guide in college, and C.E.O. of iRobot.

— Colin Angle life

My very clear vision for the ideal Roomba is one you never see and you never touch. Our research priorities are explicitly focused on the Roomba of the future that will deliver on the promise of automatically cleaning your floor.

— Colin Angle future

The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.

— Colin Angle war

When my daughter was 3, she was eating Cheerios and spilled some on the table. So she swiped them onto the floor. I said, 'Darcy, what are you doing?' She said: 'Don't worry, Daddy, the robot will get it.' I didn't know whether to be horrified or proud. It was this idea that homes take care of themselves and robots are part of that.

— Colin Angle art

Building robot versions of people is very expensive.

— Colin Angle people

Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.

— Colin Angle idea

I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.

— Colin Angle believe

I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.

— Colin Angle passion

I thought boxes were the best toy. When my parents got a new car, I ran to my mother and said, 'Did it come in a box?'

— Colin Angle thought

If you want to make a serious, rugged, reliable robot, you can start with the Create platform and just build stuff on top of it.

— Colin Angle art

In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.

— Colin Angle people

People are fascinated by robots because they're machines that can mimic life.

— Colin Angle life

The name iRobot comes from 'Internet-connected robot.'

— Colin Angle internet

At MIT, in Professor Rodney Brooks' lab, I was involved in a project, led by Anita Flynn, to build robots using techniques similar to those used in building silicon chips. We got some silicon micro-machined motors to move a bit, but this didn't lead to an actual product.

— Colin Angle sin

Building a robot that has legs and walks around is a very expensive proposition. Mother Nature has created many wonderful things, but one thing we do have that nature doesn't is the wheel, a continuous rotating joint, and tracks, so we need to make use of inventions to make things simpler.

— Colin Angle nature

Did Google need to make robot cars in order to make Streetview work? Absolutely not. It's the equivalent of saying you need a walking robot in order to push an upright vacuum cleaner. It's gratuitous robotics!

— Colin Angle work

I was focused on building things from an early age. When I was about 3, our toilet broke, and my mother was ready to call the plumber. I told her I would fix it and asked her to get my Richard Scarry book 'How Things Work in Busytown.' Between the picture of a toilet and the text she read to me explaining how the parts worked, I fixed it.

— Colin Angle art

If you ask the typical two- or three-year-old or a teenager what a robot is, they will think about a humanoid that does my homework for me or walks the dog. When I go and talk to kids and pull out the Roomba, it's not this big 'Wow!' moment.

— Colin Angle work

In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'

— Colin Angle man

In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it - and it served a real purpose.

— Colin Angle purpose

Its going to be interesting to see how society deals with artificial intelligence, but it will definitely be cool.

— Colin Angle intelligence

The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to go to the kitchen means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.

— Colin Angle intelligence

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