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- IRobotSoft (zip)
- IRobot is the Internet-robot engine for Web automation and Web computing. Completely automatic Web recording. Create your own IRobot Web agents to automate everything on the Web. Support Web data integration and computation. Batch form submissions. Share your Web experience with your friends. IRobot is all you need for Web...
- Tags: iRobot Corp., Web, Channel Management, Marketing
- Software downloads 2008-01-17
- Photos: Cracking open the iRobot Roomba
- Follow along as TechRepublic's fearless Scott Wolf exposes the insides of an early-model Roomba. by CNET News.com
- Tags: iRobot Corp., iRobot Roomba, Photograph, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-10-17
- Photos: iRobot phones home, cleans gutters
- Two vastly different robots unveiled at DigitalLife offer practicality and Jetsons frivolity for the home. by CNET News.com
- Tags: iRobot Corp., Phone, Photograph, Home, Robots, Telecom & Utilities, Emerging Technologies, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-09-27
- News to know: Vista in your living room; Microsoft ditches anti-Linux site; SAP
- Notable headlines:Ed Bott: Vista Media Center takes over the living room. Gallery right: Using Windows Vista as a home theater hub.David Berlind's Tech Shakedown #6: Could Kodak site's Vista incompatibilities be a sign of something else?Dan Farber: SAP's cautious Web 2.0 imagineering. Dennis Howlett: SAPs 429 page lecture: who's learning...
- Tags: Ticker, Microsoft Windows Vista, SAP AG, Microsoft Corp., Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-08-26
- iRobot's Angle on the future: More profit
- iRobot's Angle on the future: More profitLove My RoombaI've been using a Roomba for a while, and love it. It's not, unfortunately, a replacement for a "real" vacuum, but it's great for keeping things clean between the times when I can get out the Oreck.Its algorithms for covering the entire...
- Tags: Robots, iRobot Roomba, iRobot Corp.
- Discussion threads 2007-08-23
- Photos: iRobot's new 'robust' Roomba
- New Roomba 500 series vacuuming robot gets corners and takes direction without sucking in rug fringe or loose wires.On Wednesday, iRobot plans to release a new generation of vacuuming robots to the public.CNET News.com got a chance to test out iRobot''s new Roomba 500 series ahead of time and got...
- Tags: Robots, photograph, iRobot Corp., iRobot Roomba, subsystem, robot, Roomba 500, modularity, dust, dirt, homeowner, firmware, staff writer, incarnation, C, CEO, battery, Web
- Image galleries 2007-08-21
- Photos: Unmanned vehicles take to air, land and sea
- Unmanned vehicles allow military, researchers to explore dangerous areas without putting people in harm's way.Sleek robotic aircraft may have been the scene-stealers at this year''s Association for Unmanned Vehicles International AUVSI show, but land vehicles are also playing an important role in military operations. This ruggedized PackBot, made by iRobot,...
- Tags: photograph, Unmanned Vehicle, helicopter, catapult, aircraft, iRobot Corp., BAE Systems Plc., Northrop Grumman Corp., researcher, MLB, zoom, Lockheed Martin Corp., U.S. Army, complement, camera, Mountain View, Iraq, robot, display, monitoring, government, image, Sony Corp., pho
- Image galleries 2007-08-09
- Birth of RoboCop? iRobot sells taser-wielding robots to police, Pentagon
- Birth of RoboCop? iRobot sells taser-wielding robots to police, PentagonRoomba with an attitude..."Lift your feet, [b]NOW![/b]"
- Tags: Robots, Robocop, iRobot Corp., Pentagon, robot
- Discussion threads 2007-07-11
- Birth of RoboCop? iRobot sells taser-wielding robots to police, Pentagon
- Although RoboCops aren't walking the neighborhood beat yet, one vacuum cleaner manufacturer has joined forced with a stun-gun manufacturer to develop robots for police forces and the Pentagon, reports the Associated PressiRobot Corp. is hoping that soldiers and law enforcement will embrace the idea of a taser-wielding robot as a...
- Tags: Defense, Law enforcement
- Blog posts 2007-07-06
- Create your own robot
- Watch an iRobot concoction in actionFrom CES 2007: Bryan Adams, an iRobot senior researcher, gives CNET News.com's Michael Kanellos a demo of the iRobot Create, which lets users hack the popular hardware and program their own robot. Watch an example of what the robot is capable of as it attempts...
- Tags: iRobot Corp., robot
- Videos 2007-01-12
- Robots on the loose at CES
- At the gadget fest in Las Vegas, iRobot's newest bot scoots and hoists, WowWee's Panda chats and Robo Elvis looks good in leather.
- Tags: iRobot Corp., fest, bot, robot, Las Vegas, Consumer Electronics Show
- Image galleries 2007-01-11
- Photos: Creating a customized iRobot
- iRobot is releasing the iRobot Create, a programmable robot for entertainment and education.
- Tags: iRobot Corp., education, robot, entertainment
- Image galleries 2007-01-07
- iRobot readies for war--and the household
- iRobot readies for war--and the householdlike the movie "I, Robot"the personal servant robots, which did everything... we're just on our way.I think I'll stick to the version which doesn't upgrade all the time automatically, just so that I don't need to worry about the robot revolution.
- Tags: Robots, robot, iRobot Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-11-29
- irobotsoft (exe)
- iRobot is both a visual platform to create Internet robots, and a general Internet robot execution engine. Using iRobot, you can create your own robots to navigate Web sites, fill forms, extract Web data and even compute scientific data online. Your don't need to have programming skills to create your...
- Tags: iRobot Corp., Programming, Robots, Emerging Technologies
- Software downloads 2006-06-20
- Navy buying $26m of PackBot robots
- 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 will deliver an additional 213 iRobot PackBot Man Transportable Robotic Systems MTRS for use in Iraq and...
- Tags: robot
- Blog posts 2006-03-31
- Cleaning up at CES--Scooba the thinking mop
- iRobot goes beyond the vacuum cleanerAt the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, we see the new electronic mop. CNET's Tom Merritt is floored by what the Scooba can do.
- Tags: Scooba
- Videos 2006-01-07
- iRobot unveils sniper detector
- iRobot unveils sniper detectorBut the question ishow will it perform when the snipers are at 500-1000 meters? I qualified at 1250 meters with the M50 single shot sniping rifle. Many of the top military snipers world wide are capable of this and much better ranges.So how would this iRobot fare...
- Tags: Workforce management, iRobot Corp., training
- Discussion threads 2005-10-04
- Photo: Robotic sniper detector
- With remote-controlled sensor system, iRobot's PackBot can help soldiers find enemy shooters.
- Tags: iRobot Corp., soldier, photograph
- Image galleries 2005-10-04
- Photo: Robotic sniper detector
- With remote-controlled sensor system, iRobot's PackBot can help soldiers find enemy shooters.
- Tags: iRobot Corp., soldier, photograph
- Image galleries 2005-10-04
- Can Roomba maker iRobot clean up on Wall Street?
- Can Roomba maker iRobot clean up on Wall Street?Early stage, time to get into Robotics stock playI saw this company and their founders in a demo at a Technology Council presentation, they are off to a good start. The idea that "dull jobs" are target markets for their next...
- Tags: Robots, iRobot Roomba, robot, iRobot Corp., job
- Discussion threads 2005-07-27
BNET Industries
- iRobot Corp.
- iRobot develops technology incorporating advanced concepts in navigation, mobility, manipulation and artificial intelligence to build robots. Co.'s Roomba floor vacuuming robot and Scooba floor washing...
- iRobot Corp. company page on BNET »
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