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news.cnet.com - 4/15/2009

Q&A: iRobot taps into its Warrior spirit

— news.cnet.com — 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 ... (more) Q&A: iRobot taps into its Warrior spirit

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kokeytechnology.com - 4/23/2009

Vacuum Cleaners: iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum With Virtual Wall

— kokeytechnology.com — What’s the difference between the iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum With Virtual Wall and the previously featured home gadget here that is iRobot Roomba 535 Robotic Vacuum With Lighthouse Technology? There are differences. First, the price of the iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum is under ... (more) Vacuum Cleaners: iRobot Roomba 530 Robotic Vacuum With ...

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iRobot's new bot handles staircases with aplomb
DVICE Atom Feed — ... above shows their latest effort, a stair-climbing robot designed to make it both up and down stairs without slipping or falling. It's all quite impressive, I guess, but doesn't the age of actually mobile robots seem pretty far off? This guy can make his way up and down stairs, sure, but he sure takes his sweet time. I think I could outrun this thing pretty easily if it had it out for me is all that I'm saying. But you know what, maybe that's a good thing. Via Bot Junkie

iRobot's Stair Climbing Robot Prototype
Tech Blog — ... Created by an iRobot engineer for his masters thesis, this robot was "designed to efficiently climb up and down full-height stairs." Though still in the prototype stage, the project does look very promising, especially since it was just a side project. Video after the break. Now, I think it's great that iRobot has all of this exciting R&D; going on, or if not exactly R&D;, at least a lot of people who can get really creative with robots. [via Botjunkie]

Last Week On BotJunkie
OhGizmo! — By Evan Ackerman Last week on BotJunkie, we fired things up with a little dragon robot that finds fires and puffs them out, wished we lived in Japan so that we could buy ourselves a $4200 exoskeleton that boosts your strength 10x, watched an adorable video about strangers helping little cardboard robots on the streets of New York, found that coffee tastes better when served on an R2-D2 coffee table, saw a prototype stair climbing robot from iRobot, watch a robot that communicates with just a pair of eyes, read an ...