PALO ALTO, California -- Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of the company behind the Roomba vacuum robot, is preparing to bring warehouse robots to Japan in a bid to capture demand from companies grappling with a severe labor crunch.
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Rodney Brooks founded iRobot before moving on to launch Robust.AI. (Photo by Rei Nakafuji)
PALO ALTO, California -- Rodney Brooks, the co-founder of the company behind the Roomba vacuum robot, is preparing to bring warehouse robots to Japan in a bid to capture demand from companies grappling with a severe labor crunch.