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iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA

We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]

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Roomba Art – Making Beautiful Images While Vacuuming

What do you get when you have a bunch of Roombas, a long exposure camera, and perhaps some extra time [...]

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Staying Home: Booming Success With Home Robots And Anticipated Cuts To Military Spending Has iRobot Looking To Shift Priorities

Hard economic times? Don’t tell that to iRobot. The maker of Roomba and Packbot just posted record earnings for the [...]

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US Military To Request Up To 5,000 New Robots That Fit In Your Rucksack (video)

Often when we think of robots changing how war is fought we conjure images of pilotless hunter-seeker drones destroying targets [...]

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iRobot Teams Up With Google – AVA Pedestal Robot With Tablet For A Head (video)

Finally Android tablets are going to be able to live up to their names. At the recent Google I/O conference, [...]

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iRobot’s Latest Military Bot Is a Pocket-Sized Spy Tank You Can Throw (video)

It takes a lot of courage to run into a firefight. It takes a lot of robotics to not have [...]

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Robots Enter Crippled Japanese Reactor For First Time

The trend to put robots in harm’s way, instead of humans, continues. On April 17th a pair of robots entered [...]

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2000+ Robots in US Ground Forces in Afghanistan

For every 50 US soldiers in Afghanistan, we have about 1 robot, but those numbers are getting better every year. [...]

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iRobot’s AVA Has an iPAD for a Head

Faced with an intellectual problem you just can’t handle? Why not swap out your head for a different one? Oh, [...]

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iRobot Unveils Smarter Roomba and Smaller Scooba (video)

iRobot is proud to announce some new additions to their family. The reigning champions of robot vacuuming are looking to [...]

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iRobot’s Universal Gripper Pours A Drink and Draws Shapes (video)

One of the world’s most versatile robot hands doesn’t look like a hand at all. iRobot’s universal robotic gripper is [...]

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iRobot’s Military Swarm of Wifi Bots Flips Into Action

The army of the future may rely as much on WiFi as they do on weapons. To that end, iRobot [...]

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Will iRobot Produce the Healthcare Robot of the Future? I Have My Doubts. (video)

Colin Angle’s presentation at TEDMED this past year has me wondering about the future of home healthcare. According to the [...]

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Rodney Brooks Leaves MIT, Is Heartland Robotics About To Take Off?

Rodney Brooks is one of the founders of iRobot, and an influential figure in the world of robotics. For the [...]

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Underwater Drones from iRobot Helping Monitor Gulf Oil Spill

Researchers are employing iRobot’s Seaglider unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) to monitor the damage caused in the Gulf of Mexico by [...]

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First Annual National Robotics Week Is in Full Swing in US

It’s time to celebrate! This is the first annual National Robotics Week in the US. From April 10th through the [...]

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Samsung To Launch New Robot Vacuum in Europe…but it’s no Neato (video)

Samsung’s newest robot vacuum, the Navibot, looks and acts like an improved Roomba. It sports the same round shape but [...]

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iRobot Swabs the Deck of the USS Freedom

Some of the newest robots to join the US Navy aren’t spy planes or attack drones, they’re house cleaners. According [...]

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Suck it up! Neato Is Ready to Kick Robot Vacuum Butt

It’s been more than seven years since iRobot introduced the world to the Roomba robotic vacuum. Seven years without fundamental [...]

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Nothing Can Stop the Blob Bot

Like some sort of pulsating alien soccer ball, iRobot‘s blob robot expands and contracts to roll around and creep you [...]

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iRobot Announces Healthcare Bot

TEDMED 2009 just passed and with it came some news about the future of robotics and healthcare. iRobot (Nasdaq: IRBT), [...]

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Rodney Brooks, Co-Founder of iRobot, on to New Company

  What do you do after you’ve climbed a mountain? Climb another one. Rodney Brooks, MIT professor, robotic guru, and [...]

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The Pocket Sized Robotic Scout: a Soldier’s New Best Friend

There are robots to do everything nowadays.  They move pallets, act as a butler and even scoop kitty poo, so [...]

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