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Colin Angle, Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, iRobot Corporation
from Financial Executives International - Boston
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Wednesday, March 19, 2008, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Under Angle's leadership, iRobot has joined forces with exceptional strategic partners – including The Clorox Company, The Boeing Company – to create new and innovative robot solutions that build on decades of leading expertise from each partner's respective industry.
In iRobot's early days, Angle and his team designed the behavior-controlled rovers for NASA that led to the Sojourner exploring Mars in 1997. Angle's team won the NASA Group Achievement Award for its accomplishments, and his name is inscribed inside the case of the Mars exploration rover, Spirit, now on display at NASA.
Before co-founding iRobot in 1990, Angle was president of Artificial Creatures Inc., a robot design firm that ultimately become part of iRobot. Earlier in his career, Angle worked for three years at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, where he first teamed with iRobot co-founders Rodney Brooks and Helen Greiner. Angle's master thesis at MIT introduced "Genghis," a six-legged autonomous walking robot that was later installed at the Smithsonian Air and Science Museum in Washington, D.C.
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