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Colin Angle: iRobot

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How to Drive the Cost of a Robot

The cost of the robot had a lot to do with the amount of time it took to build it. Moore's Law continues to work the cell phone industry and the mobile industry is giving us better and better tools that can run on embedded computers. We avoided putting lasers on our robots to do navigation. And instead spent years researching how to do vision-based navigation, because you could just see where these technology trends were going.

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