How Labrador and iRobot Create Domestic Robots That Really Help

Evan Ackerman pairs Mike Dooley, CEO and co-founder of Labrador Systems, with Chris Jones, CTO of iRobot. With the Roomba, iRobot created the first commercially successful domestic robot, and Labrador Systems is developing the Retriever, a semi-autonomous mobile table intended to help people live more independently. They quiz each about the challenges of bringing robots from the laboratory to the unpredictable environments of people's homes and making sure manufacturers are meeting actual user needs. 

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Evan Ackerman

What is Chatbot?

What kind of things do the people building the future of robots talk about when they're alone? IEEE Spectrum editor Evan Ackerman knows the robotics beat like no other journalist today: In Chatbot, he pairs up some of the world's best experts to ask each other the kind of questions no one else can.