December 13, 2007 Known for an array of intelligent machines from home helpers to military aides, iRobot has just announced an upgrade to its PackBot with the addition of a Mapping Kit. They new ...

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 ...

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 ...

The PackBot — iRobot's military droid — has special oblong paddles that help it flip over. The Navigator, built by Robotic FX, used a similar mechanism. * Photo: Rainer Hosch * Jameel Ahed says he ...

The company’s Warrior and PackBot military robots are carrying out inspections and other duties at a nuclear power plant in South Carolina. Last fall, operator Progress Energy purchased one Warrior ...

AI thrives on data but feeding it the right data is harder than it seems. As enterprises scale their AI initiatives, they face the challenge of managing diverse data pipelines, ensuring proximity to ...

While many of us may ooh and ahh at the new iPhone apps reaching the consumer level, a pair from the University of South Florida has coded a native iPhone application that can operate iRobot’s Packbot ...

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 ...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT), a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, announced that three of the company’s robots have been purchased by Progress ...

The new iRobot Warrior 700 robot looks like the (much) bigger brother of the company’s PackBot. In fact the Warrior is a much larger, more powerful platform designed to deliver, well, PackBots (among ...

A Bedford company made the robot used in last week’s manhunt for Boston Marathon bombing suspects Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. The iRobot 510 PackBot was used by law enforcement to investigate a ...

iRobot is most famous for its line of consumer robots designed to vacuum and wash your floors, but the company also has a second business providing tough-as-nails robots to police and military. These ...