MEET IRobot Create

Irobot Create is from IROBOT Corporation. I think its the only company to have official commercial robotic product called Roomba and some other for research and military use. 
As a point of concern we are just going talk about IROBOT CREATE as it is available for research.
iRobot Create®
Programmable Robot
Create is an affordable mobile robot platform for educators, students and developers - use it to experiment, learn and play! Here's just the beginning of the fun you can have with Create...

Learn the fundamentals of robotics, computer science and engineering

Program behaviors, sounds and movements

Create is preassembled and ready to use right out of the box. Beginners can observe the robot's behavior in any of the 10 demonstration modes or program the robot by downloading scripts with any basic terminal program. Advanced users can write custom software using a variety of methods that take advantage of the robot's "streaming sensor data" mode for more control of the robot. And highly advanced users can write programs for completely autonomous behavior.


Attach sensors, electronics, cameras, grippers and more.


Create is highly flexible robot that can be attached to your netbook and get power of great computation. Not to forget you will get great flexibility on programming SDK 


Webstite for Create is here