December 13, 2007 Known for an array of intelligent machines from home helpers to military aides, iRobot has just announced an upgrade to its PackBot with the addition of a Mapping Kit. They new ...

April 18, 2007: The U.S. Army is moving up the deployment of its new infantry robot, the SUGV (Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle). This is a smaller version of the PackBot, which is made by iRobot ...

WASHINGTON, Feb. 23 (UPI) -- Almost three years into the Iraq conflict and four into the Afghanistan war, the phrase "improvised explosive devices" has become one that is met with hesitation. This is ...

iRobot's 510 PackBot on display at the annual Association of the US Army conference at Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., on Monday, October 12, 2015. The next generation of ...

While many of us may ooh and ahh at the new iPhone apps reaching the consumer level, a pair from the University of South Florida has coded a native iPhone application that can operate iRobot’s Packbot ...

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 ...

The company’s Warrior and PackBot military robots are carrying out inspections and other duties at a nuclear power plant in South Carolina. Last fall, operator Progress Energy purchased one Warrior ...

BEDFORD, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ: IRBT), a leader in delivering robotic technology-based solutions, announced that three of the company’s robots have been purchased by Progress ...

As Danger Room reports, iRobot's currently working hard to churn out the bots that'll form the so-called "robot surge" the Army has planned, but the company did recently take the time to show off the ...

Naval Sea Systems Command just announced a $26m buy of bomb disposal robots from iRobot, the company that makes the Roomba home vacuum robot, Defense Industry Daily reports. Under the terms, iRobot ...

In the black, early hours of Friday, April 19th, a pair of robots rolled up to a dark Honda Civic parked in the middle of the street in Watertown, Massachusetts. The windows had been shot out. It had ...