Finally iRobot has unveiled their new project, funded by the U.S. Army’s Small Business Innovation and Research (SBIR) program and code named Sentinel, featuring intelligent navigation capabilities that facilitate the robots to reach a predetermined target without any help or interference from an operator, prevailing over obstacles and other challenges along the way. The new [...]
iRobot has already released some great robots that include Scooba that is a floor-mopping robot and Roomba that is a carpet cleaning Robot. Their latest creation includes Create that will be shown to public at CES-2007. This new creation from iRobot has the same design as the other robots from the company. It too comes [...]
The military will begin using an explosive-sniffing robot that will allow soldiers to better detect roadside bombs. iRobot is fulfilling its first order of 100 Packbots for the US military. These robots are equipped with the new ICx Fido explosive detectors. Well, roadside bombs have led to 70 percent of U.S. casualties in Iraq. At [...]
Boeing and iRobot Corp. have joined hands to build up a novel, next-generation small unmanned ground vehicle (SUGV) for militia, civilian and commercial usage. Weighing less than 30 pounds, the SUGV Early is much smaller than those Packbots, which are currently deployed in Iraq and Afghanistan to detect mines and dig out roadside and car [...]
The co-founder and chairman of iRobot , Helen Greiner doesn’t want to open her cards about expansion of their robotic family. iRobot is public corporation based in Burlington that designs robots for businesses, homes, and the military. iRobot became popular with its product Roomba, an autonomous home vacuum cleaner. Answering to questions in a game [...]
Imagine having a robot to do all your household chores while you sit and catch up on talk with your friends. Well iRobot of Roomba fame has announced that they will be launching their range of consumer robots very soon. iRobot is well known for its range of cleaning robots. iRobot’s USP has always been [...]