gizmodo.com - 8/8/2009
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Meet the offspring of iRobot, and Transformers creator Hasbro. No, really. Back in 2000, the two companies teamed up on a project to create a baby doll that had emotionally expressive animatronic facial expressions. One look at this pic could explain why the project was later discontinued. [ ...
iRobot's military Ember bots are tiny treaded hotspots
engadget.com 5/19/2009 —
Remember the LANDroids initiative, which resulted in iRobot scoring a $2.5 million contract to create tiny, miniaturized bots that could crawl through battlefields and your nightmares? The company is showing off the early fruits of that contract, ...
iRobot Warrior 700 designed to deliver... more robots
gizmag.com 8/27/2009 — The new iRobot Warrior 700 robot looks like the (much) bigger brother of the company’s popular PackBot. In fact the Warrior is a much larger, more powerful platform designed to deliver, well, PackBots (among other missions). The Warrior 700 ...
iRobot shape-shifting ChemBot is back, and it's bad (video)
engadget.com 10/15/2009 —
As you know, when iRobot isn't hard at work developing some adorable automated vacuum cleaners , it has a quite lucrative sideline in DARPA-funded research projects . On that front, it looks like we finally have some results to report back on ...
iRobot creates new business unit for healthcare robotics
engadget.com 11/6/2009 — Well, it doesn't have a Roomba that will check up on your vitals just yet, but it looks like iRobot is betting on healthcare robotics in a fairly big way, with it taking advantage of the recent TEDMED conference to announce that it's forming a new business unit focused solely on the still ...
Q&A: iRobot taps into its Warrior spirit
news.cnet.com 4/15/2009 — Corrections were made to this interview. See below for details.
The PackBot robot has made a name for itself in dangerous places like Iraq, but the future may belong to both its bigger and smaller siblings.
U.S. military forces have long made ...
Video: iRobot Rolls Out One-Pound Machine, Ready to Swarm
wired.com 5/19/2009 — iRobot has built over 2,000 machines for the military. Most of ‘em are 50 pounds plus, and more than three feet long. But, lately, the company has been working on an itty-bitty version of its Packbot reconnaissance machine — one that weighs less than ...
iRobot Project Goes Up And Down Stairs
botjunkie.com 4/15/2009 — Writing by Evan Ackerman on Wednesday, 15 of April , 2009 at 5:31 am Here’s another glimpse inside the minds over at iRobot… It’s a robot that was designed to “efficiently climb up and down full-height stairs.” I’m not exactly sure what they mean by ...