We have some history, iRobot and I, or at least Roomba, the first consumer-grade, commercially viable robot vacuum, and I do. So when I read the news that iRobot was so cash-strapped it might have to cease operations, a wave a sadness washed over me.
Perhaps this feeling was intensified because the news arrived as I was finishing Joseph L. Jones' new book Dancing with Roomba. Jones, one of iRobot's earliest employees and an original engineer behind Roomba (an MIT Scientist, the robot vacuum was basically Jones' and a colleague's idea).
