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.
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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