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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looks like the Army is getting its wee mobile robots. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) this week gave the iRobot Corp. a contract to build LANdroids — wireless, mobile devices ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alan D. Christiansen calls his robots Moe, Larry and Curly, and they are ungainly creatures, much like their Three Stooges namesakes. But what they're designed to do is anything but slapstick. In a ...

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 ...