iRobot, developers of military robots and the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, have been building robots for more than 23 years. In 2012 they reported having sold 8 million home robots and more than 5,000 iRobot unmanned ground vehicles worldwide. For all of these robotic devices iRobot h

When I started studying robotics what was out there included industrial behemoths from companies like Cincinnati-Milacron. These were evolved numerical control devices, successors to tool and die equipment and paper tape controllers, used for manufacturing everything from screws to au