Robots to Get Boss Upgrades From: Wired News - 03/15/2004 By: Mark Baard Attendees at this week's Emerging Robotic Technologies and Applications Conference attested that next-generation robots will not just have military applications, but entertainment and caregiver applications as well. IRobot co-founder Rodney Brooks, whose company invented the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, opined that engineers should start developing robots that can assist the elderly, predicting that tomorrow's major robot applications will focus on the growing populations of the aged in Japan, Europe, and the United States. http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,62622,00.html