September 10, 2009: The U.S. Army is buying another 486 PackBot 510/FasTac remotely controlled robots. Weighing 53 pounds, and 16 inches (406mm) wide, 27 inches (686mm) long and 16 inches high, it has ...

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 ...

The iRobot Packbot 510 equipped with the User Assist Package. Robots are becoming increasingly important on the battlefield as both a way to save lives and to reduce costs in certain scenarios. The ...

Demand for robotics continues to grow as iRobot reports winning $19 million in new orders in one week. The company, based in Bedford, Mass., announced this week it won a $5.1 million order from the ...

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 ...

iRobot today announced it has delivered 2,000 PackBot robots to the U.S. military, public safety organizations and a variety of international customers. Born out of an initial research initiative with ...

Northrop Grumman recently launched its new CUTLASS bomb disposal unmanned ground vehicle. Should iRobot and its fleet of ordinance-disposing PackBots be worried? Our CUTLASS vehicle is setting new ...

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 ...

U.S. Army will pay $35.3 million for robots to help solders scope out and clear dangerous areas from safe distance. Lance Whitney is a freelance technology writer and trainer and a former IT ...

February 8, 2007 That good-for-nothing son of yours who wasted all those hours playing mindless video games might have been building some valuable skill sets after all. IRobot’s newly announced iRobot ...

BEDFORD, Mass., May 7 (UPI) -- The U.S. Army has placed an order for iRobot Corp.'s PackBot 510s as part of an indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. Massachusetts-based iRobot received ...

June 22, 2011: After more than six years of development, the U.S. Army is issuing 48 production model XM1216 SUGV (Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle) robots to a combat unit. SUGV is the next generation ...