Most of us who are familiar with the iRobot name probably know the company for its line of robotic vacuum cleaners. The little vacuum cleaners are pretty cool and not too long ago some people grafted ...

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April 24, 2007 The remarkable success of robots in Iraq and Afghanistan is now well documented. UAVs have proven invaluable at every level and robotic ground systems, primarily iRobot’s Packbot, have ...

The folks at iRobot (yeah, the same guys that make the Roomba) are ready to send their new PackBot 510 out to battle. The PackBot is a bomb-disposing robot used out in the field where it’s too ...

Demand for robotics continues to grow as iRobot reports winning $19 million in new orders in one week. The company, based in Bedford, Mass., announced this week it won a $5.1 million order from the ...

The iRobot Packbot 510 equipped with the User Assist Package. Robots are becoming increasingly important on the battlefield as both a way to save lives and to reduce costs in certain scenarios. The ...

iRobot has more than 6,000 defense and security robots deployed worldwide, with its machines in Japan helping clean up the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and in war zones detecting and disposing of ...

IRobot Corp. reports that it has landed a $2.1 million order from the U.S. Army for spare parts and repairs for the PackBot military robot. The order is the first under the five-year, $200 million ...

Naval Sea Systems Command just announced a $26m buy of bomb disposal robots from iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba home vacuum robot, Defense Industry Daily reports. Under the terms, iRobot ...

For more than three decades, iRobot has been a pioneer in the robotics and consumer electronics industries. It’s no exaggeration to say that our success is almost entirely due to the mission-driven ...

The remains of an iRobot PackBot EOD (explosive ordnance disposal) named ‘Scooby Doo’ that was destroyed on its 19th mission in Iraq. The owner shipped the destroyed robot’s pieces back to the United ...