Q Robotics Emerges from Stealth Mode, Tries To Go One Step Beyond Roomba. Gregory T.
Huang7/30/08 The future of robotics lies in… arranging potted plants? Surprising, but it just might be true. Tonight at the MIT Enterprise Forum of Cambridge, a small company called Q Robotics, based in Groton, MA, gave its first public presentation on the technology it has been developing for the past year and a half. Founded by iRobot veterans Joe Jones and Paul Sandin, co-inventors of the Roomba vacuuming robot, Q Robotics’ project has been shrouded in secrecy. Anthropology & Design, 2008. Social Networking with Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration. Don Norman's jnd.org / Technology First, Needs Last. Note: This is a pre-publication version of my article published as part of my bi-monthly column in the ACM CHI magazine, Interactions .
The final, published version is available on the Interactions website: interactions.acm.org , Interactions, volume 17, issue 2 . I urge you to read the entire magazine -- subscribe.