Joe Jones, CTO Joe Jones invents practical robots. A robotics visionary with 24 years in the field, Joe's pivotal talent is his ability to match technology to task. His flair for seeing problems in a new light often leads to breakthrough insights. Joe champions the view that robots must return value that exceeds their cost by performing useful tasks autonomously. The iRobot Roomba vacuuming robot, invented by Joe together with Paul Sandin, is an exemplar of this view. With over two million units sold, Roomba is the world's first widely adopted consumer robot. Author of three books, including the classic, Mobile Robots: Inspiration to Implementation, Joe works to make robots accessible to fledgling roboticists both young and old. His books are available in five languages. Joe, a graduate of MIT (BS 1975, MS 1978), served for nine years as a Research Engineer at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab and worked as Senior Roboticist at iRobot corporation for nearly 15 years. He currently holds nine domestic and several foreign patents.