Colin Angle: iRobot

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Lex Fridman

Philosophy, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 19 September 2019

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Colin Angle is the CEO and co-founder of iRobot, a robotics company that for 29 years has been creating robots that operate successfully in the real world, not as a demo or on a scale of dozens, but on a scale of thousands and millions. As of this year, iRobot has sold more than 25 million robots to consumers, including the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot, the Braava floor mopping robot, and soon the Terra lawn mowing robot. 25 million robots successfully operating autonomously in people’s homes to me is an incredible accomplishment of science, engineering, logistics, and all kinds of

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0:00.0	The following is a conversation with Colin Angle.
0:02.6	He's the CEO and co-founder of iRobot, a robotics company that for 29 years has been creating
0:08.8	robots that operate successfully in the real world.
0:12.7	Not as a demo are on a scale of dozens, but on a scale of thousands and millions.
0:18.9	As of this year, iRobot has sold more than 25 million robots to consumers, including
0:26.1	the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot, the Bravo floor-mopping robot, and soon the Terra lawn-mowing
0:32.4	robot.
0:33.9	29 million robots successfully operating autonomously in real people's homes.
0:39.7	To me is an incredible accomplishment of science, engineering, logistics, and all kinds
0:46.0	of general entrepreneurial innovation.
0:49.0	Most robotics companies fail.
0:51.3	iRobot has survived and succeeded for 29 years.
0:56.8	I spent all day at iRobot, including a long tour and conversation with Colin about the
1:01.6	history of iRobot, and then sat down for this podcast conversation that would have been
1:07.2	much longer if I didn't spend all day learning about and playing with the various robots
1:12.2	in the company's history.
1:13.9	I'll release the video of the tour separately.
1:17.6	Colin, iRobot, its founding team, its current team, and its mission has been and continues
1:24.3	to be an inspiration to me and thousands of engineers who are working hard to create
1:29.2	AI systems that help real people.
1:33.1	This is the Artificial Intelligence Podcast.
1:35.7	If you enjoy it, subscribe on YouTube, give it 5 stars on iTunes, support it on Patreon,
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