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0:09Certainly the dream was, let's be honest, we were promised robots.
0:14We humans were promised robots.
0:17Yes, we were going to build robots.
0:19And everyone asked for a robot vacuum cleaner from the very first day.
0:24Wait, when you would meet people, they'd say, oh, when is Rosie, like from the Jetsons, going to be in my house?
0:31When are you going to clean my floor?
0:41Welcome to How I Built This, a show about innovators, entrepreneurs, idealists, and the stories behind the movements they built.
0:53I'm Guy Roz, and on the show today, how Colin Engel set out to make robots part of our daily lives and brought us one of the most iconic home helpers ever, the Roomba.
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