"Colin Angle" (born 1967) is co-founder, chief executive officer and chairman of the board of iRobot/iRobot Corporation, maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaning robot and the PackBot military robot. He holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and a Master of Science in computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He appeared in the film 21 (2008 film)/21, which starred Jim Sturgess and Kate Bosworth.

In iRobot's early days, Angle and his team designed the behavior-controlled rovers for NASA that led to the Sojourner (rover)/Sojourner exploring Mars in 1997. Angle’s team won the NASA Group Achievement Award for its accomplishments, and his name is inscribed inside the case of Spirit rover/Spirit, the Mars exploration rover on display at NASA.

Before co-founding iRobot in 1990, Angle was president of Artificial Creatures Inc. Earlier in his career, Angle worked at MIT’s MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory/Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he first teamed with iRobot co-founders Helen Greiner and Rodney Brooks. Angle’s master thesis at MIT produced Genghis, a six-legged autonomous walking robot that has been displayed at the National Air and Space Museum/Smithsonian National Air and Science Museum in Washington, D.C.

More Colin Angle on Wikipedia.

We felt that if we could do it at the right price, the cleaning robot would be embraced by the masses.

376

The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things.

228

There is strong synergy with consumer electronics. The core of a robot could ultimately be a cell phone.

146

It's wildly impractical to do so in any real sense.

134