At today’s 22nd National Space Symposium, the iRobot PackBot® Tactical Mobile Robot will be inducted into the 2006 Space Technology Hall of Fame. iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ:IRBT – News), along with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Older models of the iRobot military-grade inventions don't fade away. Instead, they get reassigned to a still-useful purpose as scouts for contaminated areas. In a software-driven world, it's easy to ...

Who says the military is not into games? When we last told you about the iRobot Packbot, it had barely taken off as a prototype that could fly with a parafoil system. The USDE has been busy and is now ...

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 ...

Following on the heels of a $13.5 million deal with the Navy earlier this week, iRobot Corp. has landed $5.1 million from the U.S. Army for its PackBot robot. Under the order, the eleventh under a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cue the "Skynet" conspiracy theories: Robots are beginning to team up and work together -- and the U.S. government is helping them do it. In what DefenseOne.com is calling "the next level in ...