iRobot

This morning, Amazon and iRobot announced “a definitive merger settlement below which Amazon will purchase iRobot” for US $1.7 billion. The announcement was a shock, to place it mildly, and we’ve barely had an opportunity to digest the…

Today, Clearpath Robotics is opening pre-orders for the newest, fanciest TurtleBot: the TurtleBot 4. Built on top of iRobot’s Create 3 in close partnership with Open Robotics, the TurtleBot 4 is “the next-generation of the world’s most…

This article was first published as "Design case history: the Commodore 64." It appeared in the March 1985 issue of IEEE Spectrum. A PDF version is available on IEEE Xplore. The diagrams and photographs of chips, circuit boards, and…