Roomba创始人携AI宠物机器人回归

Colin Angle is making another attempt to bring robotics into everyday homes, this time with an AI-powered companion designed to behave more like a pet than a machine. Unveiled at Future of Everything conference, the prototype—called Familiar—uses generative AI to respond to speech, learn behavior over time, and interact with users in a way that feels more organic than previous consumer robots. The concept marks a shift from functional robotics, like vacuum cleaners, toward emotional and social interaction. Angle spent more than two decades building iRobot into a household name with Roomba. Now, the goal is different: not cleaning floors, but creating a robot people might bond with. …