{"id":82835,"date":"2026-05-11T08:08:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:08:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82835"},"modified":"2026-05-11T08:08:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T12:08:20","slug":"man-who-invented-roomba-moves-into-household-demon-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/man-who-invented-roomba-moves-into-household-demon-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Man Who Invented Roomba Moves Into Household Demon Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Futurism<\/em>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/roomba-inventor-moves-into-demon-market.jpg?quality=85&amp;w=1152\" alt=\"A woman in a white sleeveless top and maroon leggings is doing a downward dog yoga pose on a mat indoors. Beside her there is a large, cream-colored robotic creature with black eyes and a soft, plush-like texture, positioned similarly on the floor. The background includes a red chair and a softly lit room.\" width=\"323\" height=\"215\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Colin Angle, the inventor of the iconic Roomba automated vacuum, is back with another robot that hangs around the house. This time it\u2019s not a roaming vacuum cleaner, though, but a furry \u2014 and eerily lifelike, if not creepy \u2014 companion called a \u201cFamiliar.\u201d With a name of such supernatural connotations, and with its uncanny appearance, it\u2019s hard not to see it as a demonic mockery of an actual flesh and blood pet, superficially cute as it may be.<\/p>\n<p>Angle co-founded iRobot, the company that builds the autonomous robot vacuum cleaners, in 1990. In 2024, he stepped down as CEO after a deal to sell the company to Amazon fell through. Since then, Angle cofounded Familiar Machines &amp; Magic, which plans to start selling Familiars next year at the earliest, Angle said. Deviating from much of the AI and robotics industry, the company decided from its inception that it wouldn\u2019t pursue humanoid robots.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1778486900\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Man Who Invented Roomba Moves Into Household Demon Market\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Futurism: Colin Angle, the inventor of the iconic Roomba automated vacuum, is back with another robot that hangs around.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82835"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82836,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82835\/revisions\/82836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}