Object Details
- iRobot Corporation
- Description
- This mobile robot for vacuuming floors is a first-generation Roomba, a widely successful domestic robot. On the market beginning in 2002, the Roomba is a product of the firm iRobot, founded in Burlington, Mass., in 1990 by MIT roboticists Colin Angle, Helen Greiner and Rodney Brooks. A team of eight designed the robot, and the basic patent is 6,883,201.
- The battery-operated Roomba rolls on wheels and reacts to its environment with the aid of sensors and computer processing. When it bumps into an obstacle or detects an infrared beam, a boundary line it does not cross emitted by a separate “virtual wall” unit, the robot will change direction randomly.
- Location
- Currently not on view
- Credit Line
- Gift of Roger Connor
- ID Number
- 2013.0158.01
- catalog number
- 2013.0158.01
- accession number
- 2013.0158
- Object Name
- vacuum cleaner, robot
- vacuum cleaner
- Physical Description
- plastic (overall material)
- grey (overall color)
- metal (overall material)
- rubber (overall material)
- black (overall color)
- Measurements
- overall: 3 in x 13 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 34.29 cm
- See more items in
- Work and Industry: Mechanisms
- Industry & Manufacturing
- National Museum of American History
- Record ID
- nmah_1448432
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/ng49ca746ad-d02b-704b-e053-15f76fa0b4fa
