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 ...

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 ...

Cue the "Skynet" conspiracy theories: Robots are beginning to team up and work together -- and the U.S. government is helping them do it. iRobot's PackBot now has its own private air force, thanks to ...

So if you have an army and use robots to head into dangerous ground you might want to take a look at this. iRobot’s Sentinel is an applied research project that allows multiple robots to be controlled ...

BURLINGTON, Mass., June 28, 2007 – iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT) today announced a strategic alliance with TASER International, Inc. to develop new robots that can remotely engage, incapacitate and ...

Bedford-based iRobot Corp. has landed $13.5 million from the U.S. Navy for its PackBot robots, which enable soldiers to identify and disable explosives from a safe distance. Under the deal, any branch ...

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 ...

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 ...

TEL AVIV (MarketWatch) -- iRobot, the Burlington, Mass., provider of robots that perform dull, dirty or dangerous tasks, said it filed a suit charging one of its former employees and a company he ...

The NYPD is shelling out nearly $400,000 for a remote controlled Wall-E look-alike robot that can roll into danger — so cops don’t have to. The PackBot 525 — built by Massachusetts-based defense ...

Retired Vice Adm. Joseph Dyer, executive vice president and general manager of iRobot, envisions the number of missions undertaken by the company's PackBot multiplying as robots become more important ...