Colin Angle

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Hard Fork · Why Roomba Died + Tech Predictions for 2026 + A Hard Forkin’ Xmas Song · 19 Dec 2025 podcast

It was wrong then, it's wrong now.

I mean, does your autonomous driving vehicle have a LiDAR on it?

No.

Why?

Because it is a dead-end technology which gives you no situational awareness of

Well, sure.

Then call it the Roborock-i-robot divide.

And under my leadership, I was playing the Tesla card, which said...

I will put every penny of cogs in the Roomba against better visual understanding, because I believe at the time, this was very publicly stated, the Roomba with a camera could understand what it was doing, could understand whether it was doing a good job or a bad job, and could play a role as the hub of the smart home.

in a way that a robot driven by a LiDAR could not.

And the maps that you make with a camera are more rugged and robust to moving furniture.

And we explicitly decided not to put LiDAR on Roomba because it took away from the COGS that I could put

against CPU and other technologies.

And so this was not a, why did you fail to innovate?

This was a strategy.

So honestly, we got wet mopping wrong.

We built our first mopping robot two years after Roomba.

And we felt like creating an independent mopping solution was the right strategy.

And it gave the best customer benefit.

It did the best job.

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