For My Birthday

I want a robot vacuum cleaner that goes around the room by itself, saying "Warning! Warning! Alien Approaching!"

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I do it for the toys: OK, it's not like they gave me a robot vacuum cleaner because of the blog, but I spent some of the money I got paid for blogging on this. It helped that there was a talk by Colin Angle of iRobot on campus a while back, talking about the history of the company, as part of the…
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