How Roomba Got Its Vacuum

Adapted from Dancing With Roomba, written by Joe Jones, who was iRobot’s first full-time employee and the original designer of the Roomba robot vacuum.After developing a prototype robot that was effective at cleaning both hard floors and carpets using a relatively simple carpet-sweeping mechanism, iRobot vice president Winston Tao and the iRobot marketing team have organized a focus group so that Roomba’s engineers can witness the reaction of potential first customers.One pleasant mi