The Roomba brings the robot into the home

September 2002

iRobot launches the Roomba, an autonomous vacuum cleaner billed as the first practical, affordable home robot. It passes 1 million units in 2004 and 40 million home robots sold in 2021. Housework gets its first mass-market robot.

Source: iRobot

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