Interview with Helen Greiner of iRobotPosted 3 Aug 2004 at 23:20 UTC by steve 
Phillip Torrone sent us a link to his recent interview
with Helen Greiner, the chairman and cofounder of iRobot Corporation.
The article includes photos of the new Roomba Discovery and the
Linux-based PackBot. There's also a cool photo of the debris
remaining from PackBot #129, which was killed in action in Iraq
earlier this year while on a bomb disposal mission. Helen's prediction
is that we are 100 years from seeing general purpose humanoid robots.
Less intelligent, task-specific robots, on the other hand, are here
today and will continue to improve rapidly.
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