BURLINGTON, Mass. — Forget R2D2. The next frontier in robotics is a miniature tank that borrows some of the technology behind military bomb-defusing robots — to eject rotting foliage from your gutters ...

Have you been ignoring the aging leaves and muck winter left in your gutters? The debris can lead to serious problems as it decays, degrading the gutters and aging your house as moisture accumulates.

Rosie, the Jetsons' robot, never cleaned the gutters. But yours can. IRobot Corp., the company that brought us the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, recently introduced a gutter-cleaning robot called the ...

Rosie, the Jetsons' robot, never cleaned the gutters. But yours can. iRobot Corp., the company that brought us the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, recently introduced a gutter-cleaning robot called the ...