iRobot Seaglider Ready to Deploy
We own a Roomba, which is a robot vacuum cleaner made by iRobot. It looks like a cross between an overgrown hockey puck and a squashed R2D2 from Star Wars. It softly whirs and occasionally beeps as it crisscrosses the floor vacuuming, until it eventually runs low on power, at which point it heads back to its charging station, to be ready to vacuum again. (We love our Roomba. )
IRobot builds more that robot vacuum cleaners, of course. Right now three iRobot Seagliders are in service monitoring the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Here is how Colin Angle, Chairman and CEO of iRobot describes the devices:
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