家用機(jī)器人Roomba進(jìn)化史

????2002年，Roomba誕生

????縱橫軍用機(jī)器人領(lǐng)域十多年后，iRobot推出了第一款家用機(jī)器人Roomba。Roomba是一款全自動智能型真空吸塵器，不過它并不是iRobot的首創(chuàng)。瑞典公司伊萊克斯（Electrolux）早在2001年就推出了類似的產(chǎn)品Trilobite。截至2004年，Roomba的銷量已經(jīng)超過一百萬臺。雖然未經(jīng)證實，但估計媒體將Roomba比作《摩登家庭》中的機(jī)器人羅茜（Rosie the Robot ）也不下百萬次了。

????2002: The Roomba is introduced

????After more than a decade of offering military products, iRobot debuts its first domestic robot -- the Roomba. The Roomba is an autonomous robotic vacuum cleaner, though it is not the first: The Electrolux Trilobite hit the market a year before. By 2004, a million Roombas had been sold. It is suspected, though not confirmed, than an equal number of Rosie the Robot references had been made by the media.