<![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence - Gizmodo Comments]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> the real question concerning this whole "i" business is: who cares?

spec24

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @mhlaxp:

silly, silly. "clear things up definitively," you say! Do your research! This is from the iRobot company profile on Yahoo Finance:
"The company was founded in 1990. It was formerly known as IS Robotics, Inc. and changed its name to IS Robotics Corporation in 1994. Further, the company changed its name to iRobot Corporation in 2000. iRobot Corporation is headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts."
So Apple put the "i" in front of their product before iRobot did. However, iRobot is obviously playing off of Asimov's iRobot, not Apple's "i".

brothhunter

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @SeventhExile: Ahh... good old RIT... my alma mater...

memories.....

ideaman2020

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @Luizzle: @bluebuilder: OK kids, first off, there are NO armed robots without a human in the loop, at least not in the US military. Second, the article about a SWORDS bot moving uncommanded a) was retracted as being almost completely false and b) the system never "went berzerk" as you claim Luizzle. The SWORDS bots are still deployed. Go reread the articles, get your facts straight.
And finally, the few incidents of uncommanded motion were years ago during testing, and have never occurred on models in the field. Does anyone believe that every product is 100% perfect BEFORE release? Do you think car companies crash test vehicles for fun, or is it maybe to find dangerous flaws before they're sold?

jtheletter

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> damn I can't write anymore..

grammar is what I is most are not good at apparently..

we should really get a delete comment button going sometime..

SeventhExile

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @ideaman2020:
Ha now its the individual employee that works for both.
3 of my friends, myself included just were just offered a co-op with FisherPrice designing toys. At the same time we will be working on department of defense research at RIT.

SeventhExile

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> Sounds like the early days of Microsoft and Apple.

dirk1965

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @Luizzle:
That only matters for armed robots without a "human in the loop."

Most of iRobot's offerings are directly controlled by a human. So it does matter, actually.

bluebuilder

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> Not that any of this matters anymore now that the one robot went berzerk and started waving its gun around..

Luizzle

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> Ah screw iRobot, Robot FX may have stolen their plans but they built a better robot for half the cost. Now there is going to be more solders without robots to help them disarm bombs in the field. All thanks to iRobot.

mikecoscia

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> To clear things up definitively:

iRobot was founded in 1991. Apple's first iProduct, the iMac, launched in 1998, and iPod was copywritten in 2003, and gained by Apple in 2005. Around this time, sources day, Steve Jobs could be seen running around shouting "me too!"

mhlaxp

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @GizMadone:

Apple fanboy alert! You think Apple invented the letter 'i'?

Branding that way was around a long time before Apple copied it.

bluebuilder

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @GizMadone:
Dude, iRobot was around WAAAAAAAYYYYYY before the iPod. Apple didn't invent the letter "i" FFS!


Candyman

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @Xavoc: Shhh. He's ranting! Let the man cleanse his soul.

m4ximusprim3

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @GizMadone: If you think of a (cooler?) more interesting one that will catch peoples attention (it caught yours, even if it was bad attention) than please tell the world because it annoys me too, but it is an easy marketing idea

takemetoyourtoaster

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> @GizMadone: As opposed to it being a play on Asimov's "I Robot"??

Xavoc

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> FFS, when will the i-prefix die?

With the obvious exception of Apple (the original), placing an "i" in front of a product's name is no longer cool. Instead, it screams of "me-too" marketing and a total lack of originality.

GizMadone

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> Great read...interesting sub plots in the story I did not know about before...

outinthedark

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> I think this could be settled only one way.

ROBOT WARS!

[en.wikipedia.org]

grayskyz

]]> <![CDATA[iRobot, Corporate Sabotage, Stolen Plans and Destroyed Evidence]]> Was anyone else creeped out by the sentence "In those days, the company was ... designing toys for Hasbro and doing research for Darpa."?

ideaman2020

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