The inventor of the bestselling vacuum cleaner robot has created a bot that cuts weeds. by Elizabeth Woyke November 15, 2016 What do vacuuming, mopping, and weeding have in common? They’re all repetitive household chores that must be done frequently. They’re also all targets for roboticist Joe Jones. Jones invents practical, mobile robots, among them the vacuum-cleaning Roomba and floor-washing Scooba, which he developed at his former employer iRobot. At his new startup, Franklin Robotics,…
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