iRobot Corp set it’s IPO at 4.3M common shares at an estimated price of between $21 and $23 a share. About 3.26 million shares will be available to the public, and 1.04 million shares will be sold by some shareholders.
Sounds like our favorite little company is growing Hopefully they put a […]
I decided to make a section on Scooba competitors. My plan is to provide news about other floor cleaning robots, like the Orazio.
here is the official description of the product, listing features, technical specifications, etc.
It offers five different cleaning programs, which I beleive all have different settings that you can specify.
Continuous Vacuuming
Continuous vacuum cycle, […]
I have to give major props to the folks at GoRobotics. They have two videos uploaded, which were filmed at the RoboNexus convention. A lot of good questions were asked and answered, so I suggest you take a look.
video 1
video 2
For those who aren’t on broadband, here are some quick notes taken from […]
I got an email containing a link to a page with Scooba packaging pictures (thanks William!)
Here is one:
More can be found over at Go Robotics. More pictures are also on flickr
tags: design, packaging
An article over at livescience.com has the basic scooba overview, but also a few neat facts.
Robert Heinlein has the idea for a robot that cleans kitchen floors in his 1956 novel ‘The Door Into Summer’:
What Hired Girl would do… was clean floors . . . any floor, all day long and without supervision… It […]
From MercuryNews:
RoboNexus, a robotics industry conference and expo, will take place at the San Jose McEnry Convention Center, starting Thursday and running through Sunday.
The convention drew more than 10,000 people last year, when it made its U.S. debut, in Santa Clara
iRobot will of course be at the convention, and will be demonstrating their upgraded Roomba […]
Looks like iRobot is about to start a large scale advertising campaign titled “I Love Robots” - good time to showcase their Roomba and Scooba before the Christmas frenzy hits.
From BusinessWire.com:
For the Roomba commercial, real owners were selected from thousands of iRobot customers who responded to a company survey. The nine Roomba owners featured […]