Joseph Jones is cofounder and CTO of Harvest Automation, Inc. His primary interest is the practical application of robotic technology to real-world problems. Prior to forming Harvest, Mr. Jones was a senior roboticist with iRobot Corporation. There he proposed and helped develop the Roomba floor cleaning robot. Before joining iRobot Mr. Jones served on the research staff at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (now CSAIL). A graduate of MIT and author of three books on robotics he holds over 30 US patents.

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