Robot vacuum maker Neato Robotics sucks up $12.2M

April 19, 2012 12:24 PM Sarah Mitroff
Sarah Mitroff

Vroom, vroom. Neato Robotics has just snagged $12.2 million in fourth round funding for its robot vacuum cleaner.

We all thought the future would be full of robots doing our house work for us. Well in the case of vacuuming, …

The age of personal robots is at hand (video)

August 21, 2011 9:00 AM Dean Takahashi
Dean Takahashi

If the past 50 years saw the rise of industrial robots, the next 50 will be about the age of personal robots.

That’s the view of Steve Cousins (pictured above), chief executive of Willow Garage, the Menlo Park, Calif.-based maker …