Engineer Dallas Goecker attends meetings, jokes with colleagues and roams the office building just like other employees at his company in Silicon Valley.
It looks just like iRobot's Roomba vacuuming machine, except the new circular roaming vacuum cleaner from Sharp Corp. is trilingual, and even knows a hip humorous dialect.
The Massachusetts company that makes a robotic vacuum cleaner is introducing a tiny new robot designed to perform one of the more unpleasant household tasks: washing the bathroom floor.