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Colin Angle, born in 1967, is an accomplished entrepreneur and executive with extensive experience in the field of artificial intelligence. He is renowned for his leadership in robotics and AI, having held significant roles in several well-known companies.

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“In the end, robots do things that people can do. So there is a cost above which you can hire somebody to do it, and that bounds the opportunity.”

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“When we built Roomba, we explicitly designed it to not have a face. We didn't want to think it was cute, we wanted people to take it seriously so we gave it more of an industrial look. People personified their Roomba anyway. Over 80 percent of people name their robot. We did nothing to encourage people to do that but they do it anyway.”

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“In the beginning of Roomba, we all took turns answering the support line. Once, a woman called and explained that her robot had a defective motor. I said, 'Send it back. We'll send you a new one.' She said, 'No - I'm not sending you Rosie.'”

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“Building robot versions of people is very expensive.”

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“Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.”

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“When I was building robots in the early 1990s, the problems of voice recognition, image understanding, VOIP, even touchscreen technologies - these were robotics problems.”

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“In the original 'Star Wars' movie, there is a small toaster-sized and shaped robot on the Death Star that guides Stormtroopers to where they need to go. I always liked that robot because I could imagine how to build it - and it served a real purpose.”

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“I think, people are generally willing to imagine robots of all shapes, as humanoid robots are not practical.”

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“The utility of the robot needs to come first. It's business model over technology.”

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“That's exciting because to create new value in the robot space quickly, you need to stand on the shoulders of other technological developments.”

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“The answer is navigation, manipulation, and implementation of more sophisticated intelligence. The idea that a robot will become more aware of its environment, that telling it to "go to the kitchen" means something - navigation and understanding of the environment is a robot problem. Those are the technological frontiers of the robotics industry.”

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“There are so many opportunities to make a bad decision in building a robot company on top of all the normal ways that entrepreneurs screw up that it is incredibly difficult to truly create value because it is so cost-sensitive.”

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“Around the late 1990s, I'd become convinced that one of the killer applications of robotics came from connecting robots to the Internet. The idea of solving generalized artificial intelligence was still far away, but heck, I could rent brains by hiring operators. iRobot was the name of the company and one of our most ambitious projects, iRobot LE.”

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“I believe one day nano-robots will play an important role in medicine.”

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“The ideal vacuum cleaner would be one you never see. It needs to not just be a cool gadget, but a product that cleans your floor correctly. I can imagine people having a cupboard full of robots that only come out when you need them to fulfil a specific purpose.”

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“The way that the robotics market is going to grow, at least in the home, is that we'll have a number of different special purpose robots.”

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Born: 1967
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