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 ...

U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan will have a faster, smarter and stronger robot to assist them with their missions, according to officials at iRobot Corp., which has tailored a model specifically for ...

Thousands of U.S. soldiers have been killed, injured or permanently crippled because of small explosive devices in Iraq and Afghanistan, turning the simplest job in the field into a life-threatening ...

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 ...

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 ...

The U.S. Army today awarded iRobot Corp. a $200 million contract that calls for iRobot to supply the Army with military robots and spare parts as well as training and other services over the next five ...

I was in Nashville for a couple days this week attending Deltek's annual Insights conference.Deltek took over the Opryland complex with 4,000 attendees. It was an impressive sight to see that many ...

Taking men and women out of the so-called kill-chain was a primary goal during the war in Iraq. The idea was to reduce risk by replacing people in certain situations with machines that could gather ...

Then: a veritable 'petting zoo' of 7,000 unique robots, each slightly different to operate and expensive to maintain. Now: the challenge of getting all the functions of those 7,000 on just three main ...

The robotics industry is not big enough to drive technological innovation on its own, so it relies on electronics used in similar platforms Commercial computer hardware is the key to building a ...