Why iRobot's CEO Welcomes Our New Google Robot Overlords

If you were a founder in any industry where Google just snapped up eight of your competitors, and you wanted to remain in that business, you might expect to feel a little nervous. Not Colin Angle

Angle (pictured above) is the founder and CEO of iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba autonomous vacuum cleaner, its cousin the Scoomba, and many more besides. And he is so far beyond thrilled that Google is showing such an interest in the market, he's actively rooting for the big guys

"Google is attempting to do something meaningful," Angle told Mashable while driving through a snowstorm near his headquarters in Bedford, Mass. "The robot industry has suffered from a lack of great, ambitious, fully funded attempts at creating a real business as opposed to interesting demos." Read more...