The military side of Irobot, run by Vice Admiral Joseph Dyer (ret.), is now the same size as the vacuum-cleaner business.
He says the New York-based firm paid itself handsome dividends for piling on debt and mismanaging the vacuum-cleaner maker into the dirt.
The present generation of factory robots is akin to early mainframe computers in offices, reckons Rodney Brooks, a co-founder of iRobot, an American firm whose products include the Roomba, a robotic vacuum-cleaner, as well as military robots.
Mr. BAMFORD: No, I think there are key aspects that would indicate that maybe in their vacuum-cleaner approach to eavesdropping, that our communications were picked up or even targeted, for all we know since--now that the court is being gone around, that they could be eavesdropping on us very well in the United States, and there's no check and balance.
The new Honda Odyssey minivan is here and it has a built-in vacuum cleaner.
In other green technology news, Casabella unveiled a stair-climbing vacuum cleaner that is powered by trash.
The robots were the Roomba, a disc-shaped autonomous vacuum cleaner, and four anthropoid machines of varying degrees of humanness.
We get a first glimpse of the tablet (or at least a tablet with a rear-facing camera) at about 10 seconds into the video posted after the break -- it's being held by a man who just used Thinq from his office to remotely feed his dog while watching the whole thing go down from the camera on his HOM-BOT robotic vacuum cleaner.
The 65-year-old entrepreneur is famous for inventing the Dyson bagless vacuum cleaner.
Sometimes private-equity firms do little more than suck up money like a vacuum cleaner and leave someone else holding a big, ol' dusty bag full of debt.
Posthumous remix projects tend to be well-intentioned and awkward, the musical equivalent of those commercials featuring Fred Astaire dancing with a vacuum cleaner.
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