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 ...
iRobot has emerged as a leader in the robotics field, from home-cleaning robots to military-outfitted bomb-disposal robots. The robotics solution provider showed off its new uPoint Multi-Robot Control ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
We look back at some of the many robots that iRobot developed in addition to the Roomba over the past 35 years.
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 ...
U.S. Army will pay $35.3 million for robots to help solders scope out and clear dangerous areas from safe distance. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...