Roomba Robot Vacuum Cleaner
name: label: maker
content: iRobot Corporation
notes: label: Description
content: 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.
label: Description
content: 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.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
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content: Work and Industry: Mechanisms
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content: Industry & Manufacturing
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of Roger Connor
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2013.0158.01
label: catalog number
content: 2013.0158.01
label: accession number
content: 2013.0158
objectType: label: Object Name
content: vacuum cleaner, robot
label: Object Name
content: vacuum cleaner
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: plastic (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: grey (overall color)
label: Physical Description
content: metal (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: rubber (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: black (overall color)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in x 13 1/2 in; 7.62 cm x 34.29 cm