{"id":17446,"date":"2015-09-17T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2015-09-18T03:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/roomba-advances-robot-intelligence-with-a-model-that-can-map-your-house-and-remember-where-its-cleaned"},"modified":"2017-06-04T11:39:36","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T18:39:36","slug":"roomba-advances-robot-intelligence-with-a-model-that-can-map-your-house-and-remember-where-its-cleaned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/roomba-advances-robot-intelligence-with-a-model-that-can-map-your-house-and-remember-where-its-cleaned","title":{"rendered":"Roomba advances robot intelligence with a model that can map your house and remember where it\u2019s cleaned"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/roomba-advances-robot-intelligence-with-a-model-that-can-map-your-house-and-remember-where-its-cleaned.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The future of household robots owes a lot to 19th century American explorers Lewis and Clark.<\/p>\n<p>At least, that\u2019s what iRobot CEO Colin Angle told a crowd of reporters at a press event in New York on Sept. 16, introducing the Roomba 980, iRobot\u2019s newest trashcan-lid-shaped vacuuming robot. It may look like every other Roomba the company has released over the past decade or so, but this one has a new trick: It knows how to map out its surroundings and find its way home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRoomba\u2019s mission is to clean, which is not as exciting as Lewis and Clark,\u201d Angle said, \u201cBut nonetheless very important.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/503850\/roomba-advances-robot-intelligence-with-a-model-that-can-map-your-house-and-remember-where-its-cleaned\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The future of household robots owes a lot to 19th century American explorers Lewis and Clark. At least, that\u2019s what iRobot CEO Colin Angle told a crowd of reporters at a press event in New York on Sept. 16, introducing the Roomba 980, iRobot\u2019s newest trashcan-lid-shaped vacuuming robot. It may look like every other Roomba [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":367,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,47,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats","category-neuroscience","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/367"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64178,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17446\/revisions\/64178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}