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Watching a family of Roombas tidy up any space is always a big hit, but in 1949 — long before the sweet little guys were making our floors dust-free — a British neurophysiologist and roboticist named Dr. William Grey Walter invented a mini-gang of early autonomous electronic robots; the Roomba’s…
A new study shows that people emotionally bond with their Roombas, giving names and arbitrary genders to their robotic vacuum cleaners. And gee whiz, they can’t even sleep with these robots!
In animal terms, the Fukitorimushia floor-cleaning robot would be the Roomba’s distant evolutionary ancestor. It wipes instead of vacuums, inches rather than rolls, and generally looks like it wriggled right out of the primordial soup.
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