Rodney Brooks talk @ TED … some 10 years ago!
Most likely a Roomba 530. Recharge base on top, transformer on top left. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
It is a very interesting talk that Rodney Brooks gave at TED in 2003 about Robots and the upcoming “revolution”.
Check it out if you have some minutes to spare :: http://www.ted.com/talks/rodney_brooks_on_robots.html
There has been some massive advancements in these 1o years, some of them spearheaded & fueled by the military (needs/budgets).
I owned a Roomba and it was fun to watch it do it’s cleaning round, but I did find it very dumb/lacking.
