As chairman, CEO and founder of iRobot, Colin Angle is an industry pioneer and one of the world’s leading authorities on practical robots.

A robot builder from MIT who wanted to change the world by making practical robotics a mainstream reality, Colin envisions a world where intelligent and and purpose-first robots help people do more. As a visionary at the forefront of the growing home robot industry, today Colin serves as chairman of the board and chief executive officer of the iconic consumer robot company he founded in 1990: iRobot. He is an industry pioneer and one of the world’s leading authorities on practical robots.

Under Colin’s leadership, iRobot has grown from a MIT startup to become the global leader in consumer robots, with over $1.09 billion in revenue and 1,000 employees worldwide. In 2002, iRobot established the home robot category with the creation of the award-winning Roomba robot vacuum. The company’s product line, including the Roomba, Braava robot mop and Terra robot mower, have made practical home robots a reality. Today, iRobot is the most successful consumer robot company in history, with more than 25 million sold worldwide.

Not content to just mop, vacuum and clean floors, iRobot is bringing ingenious intelligence into homes around the world, designing an ecosystem of robots that work together and enable other systems in the smart home to more seamlessly work together, freeing people to simply live.

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