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An Inconvenient Truth About AI

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SLAM is a technique for building maps incrementally as a robot moves around in the world. In 2002, iRobot , a company that I cofounded, introduced the first mass-market autonomous home-cleaning robot, the Roomba, at a price that severely constricted how much AI we could endow it with. The limited AI wasn't a problem, though.