The Roomba robot vacuum, developed by iRobot, has sold over 2 million units to date and made it into the top 20 selling items on Amazon.com’s home-and-garden section this past week. Joel Garreau of the Washington Post discusses how most Roomba owners name their robot vacuum and consider it a member of their family. Garreau concludes:
“This is the year for a lot of mainstream American families that our robots emotionally became one of us.”
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