21st Century Innovative Technologies and Developments as also discoveries, curiosity ( insolite)...

Amazon kauft Roomba-Hersteller für 1,7 Milliarden Dollar
Amazon steigt in den Markt der Saugroboter ein und konnte sich dafür einen der größten Player der Szene sichern. Der Deal könnte den Markt für Haushaltsrobotik auf den Kopf stellen.

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Amazon

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Roomba

Root Robotics acquired by iRobot to bring coding education to classrooms worldwide

Today, iRobot Corp. announced its acquisition of Root Robotics, Inc., whose educational Root coding robot got its start as a summer research project at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University in 2011. Since then, it has developed into a robust learning tool that is being used in over 500 schools to teach children how to code in an engaging, intuitive way. iRobot plans to incorporate the Root robot into its growing portfolio of educational robot products, and continue the work of scaling up production and expanding Root’s programming content that began when Root Robotics was founded by former Wyss Institute members in 2017.

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Robotics

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=iRobot

Amazon is buying robot vacuum cleaner company iRobot in a deal valued at approximately $1.7 billion.  

iRobot is best known for the Roomba, the autonomous vacuum cleaner that finds its way around household obstacles to vacuum floors completely on its own. It also makes robot mop devices, too.

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Acquisitions

https://www.scoop.it/topic/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Amazon

That's what Ava Robotics, a spinoff of iRobot focusing on collaborative mobile robots for everyday life, says its newly unveiled product offers.

The flagship robot, suitably named Ava, is a roving video conferencing machine designed to beam off-site workers into offices in a more embodied, collaborative way than dial-in or traditional video conferencing.

The company is picking up where iRobot left off with its original telepresence machine, the Ava 500. In 2013, iRobot rolled out the Ava 500 in partnership with Cisco, and for a while, it was considered the cream of the crop in a growing field of telepresence devices.

With a nearly $70,000 price tag, however, the relevance of the Ava 500 has waned with the arrival of cheaper options with similar feature sets.

Learn more / En savoir plus / Mehr erfahren:

https://www.scoop.it/t/21st-century-innovative-technologies-and-developments/?&tag=Robotics