It's a Makers World pt.4
summary
Survey of consumer robots compares working products and flops and names concrete hardware and numbers: grillbot and tele‑operated gutter cleaners exist but don’t scale, communication robots like Gebo haven’t found a use case, navigation yields systematic cleaning versus random bumps, Dyson 360i uses V-SLAM visual simultaneous localization and mapping with a Dyson 360i 360° vision and a high‑speed digital motor, quiet gearing targets Scandinavian homes, the market totals $2 billion 2013 and iRobot sells over $500M annually.
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