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One of the reactors. we just heard a problem with conditions fogged up the cameras on the bots today, but their work is critical in determining if and when humans may be able to return to the damaged parts of that plant. those robots were donated to japan by i-robot. and joining me now from boston is i-robot chief operating officer, joseph dire. joseph, glad you re with us. first, tell me, are the problems that the robots experienced today serious? well, you know, randi, we don t have any information as of today. we don t believe so. and we have a full set of spares and capability aboard to keep the robots working. they re very, very reliable systems, so we re confident they ll continue to perform. tell us about the technology that s being used, and how these robots work. well, the robots that we have in japan are the are very similar, in many cases the same. of over 4,000 robots that we have in service with u.s. ....
all right. the answer to the pfizer question of the day, roger moore. who knew? i ll tell you who knew, jean krause from frederick, maryland. imagine a world where robots could deliver your mail, clean your house and even go to combat with you. this dream is turning into a reality. we re checking out robots shaping out the future with i robots c.e.o. colin angle. good morning to you. good morning. good to be here. we ll be talking about the three robots you bought. you went to school at m.i.t. that was your project as an undergraduate, right? this was my undergraduate thesis and it was the first robot that we commercialized when we started the company back in 1990. what is that thing good for? well, it s a complex robot. it walks, it climbs over difficult terrain. it was an example about how an intelligent small robot could actually have better mobility than a much larger robot. if you re trying to do ....
Exploration on other planets or difficult terrain, why not send something small. what did this do? i assume you re operating it by remote control. no, it s completely autonomous. you turn it on. it learns about its environment. it walks. it steps up and climbs like an insect. so from there, you went to i the i robot rumba, we have one of these at our house. very effective in picking up our dog s hair and going under the couches and stuff like that. that was a practical application for your robot technology. right. in order to scale the business, we had to find applications where robots would appeal to more people and everybody wants their floors clean. and so we developed this robot which is a powerful vacuum cleaner on the bottom with a brush for getting all the way up to the edge and low profile to go under things and hit a button, this sucker goes off and cleans the floor. it works well. you recently announced this week you received $14 million to for the u.s. army, ....
What will you do for them? well, that contract is to put new software on to our bomb disposal and sub-v robots. that s what we re looking at in the video. this is the little guy, a little easier to carry and those robots are being used by our soldiers to go diffuse those roadside bombs, to go into the caves in afghanistan which are incredibly dangerous in front of our soldiers. this is so fascinating. so before they would go close, they would send in this robot? right. and so they drive it in. and the robot would be able to send back video images and it could picks things up and move things. so when the soldiers go into the building or into the cave, they d have full understanding of what they re getting into ahead of time. sure, the eyes and ears ahead of time and we saw a moment ago, it looked like a local police department was using this as well. yes. where are we going from here, colin sm this was 20 years ago. ....
Right? this is current day. where are we going in the next 10 years? well, probably despite having a rumba, you still have to do things around the home. darn! ok. how about a dog walker? when are you going to come up with a dog walker? we re looking at applications which we don t like to do in order to maintain our home and have to do often and that intersection says we should build a robot to do that. great to talk with you. colin angle, c.e.o. of i robot. great to see you. i am impressed. very nice. straight ahead on our program for this thursday, christine o donnell was prepared to defend herself against her opponent chris coons but she didn t expect to be attacked by both moderators. michelle malkin weighs in on this on the other side of a brief time-out. then he tried to fix the failing schools in chicago by getting rid of 1300 of the lowest performing teachers. sounds like a pretty good idea. right? not to the unions and now the c.e.o. of schoo ....