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Founder of one of America’s biggest consumer electronics company iRobot that has filed for bankruptcy ‘shares’ what went wrong: Chinese …

US-based iRobot, which was once considered one of America’s biggest consumer electronics companies, filed for bankruptcy last week. Now, Colin Angle, the co-founder and former CEO of the Roomba robot vacuum maker, has revealed what went wrong for the company. Angle claimed that unfair competition from Chinese companies played a major role in iRobot’s recent…

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Roomba-maker iRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks gives ‘biggest reason’ why humanoid robots cannot be like humans, sends message to Elon Musk

Rodney Brooks, the roboticist who co-founded iRobot, has issued a warning: The vision of humanoid robots as catchall assistants is “pure fantasy thinking”. This comes as investors pour billions into the race to build human-like machines and Tesla CEO Elon Musk envisions that the company’s “Optimus robots will be able to play the piano and…

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