Just a little late for the Robots in care: roundup item last month, iRobot’s CEO and co-founder Colin Angle muses on the potential for care robots. The thrust of it bears out what we indicated in the introduction to the roundup – that these developments are “driven by the idea that the only way to cope with the ‘scary forthcoming crisis’ of older people numbers is to create robots to look after them. However, when you look at the robotics scene, you have to ask why one would want to spend hundreds of thousands, if not millions, developing robots to do care tasks that can mostly be done much more cheaply and unobtrusively by existing technology.” Boston Business Journal: iRobot sees future in boomers’ infirmities