The best-known manufacturer of autonomous vacuums declared bankruptcy this week, and no one should be surprised.

From disaster zones, to oil spills, to the Great Pyramids of Giza, iRobot has taken its robot everywhere in its 35 years.

The iRobot PackBot performs bomb disposal and other dangerous missions for troops and first responders. (Photo: Business Wire) An initial $3 million order under the contract for spares has also been ...

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 ...

The 35-year-old company behind the robotic vacuum Roomba, iRobot (IRBT), has filed for a pre-packaged Chapter 11 bankruptcy, ...

Most of us who are familiar with the iRobot name probably know the company for its line of robotic vacuum cleaners. The little vacuum cleaners are pretty cool and not too long ago some people grafted ...

April 24, 2007 The remarkable success of robots in Iraq and Afghanistan is now well documented. UAVs have proven invaluable at every level and robotic ground systems, primarily iRobot’s Packbot, have ...

The folks at iRobot (yeah, the same guys that make the Roomba) are ready to send their new PackBot 510 out to battle. The PackBot is a bomb-disposing robot used out in the field where it’s too ...

iRobot developed the Create robot as s development platform for people interested in using the Roomba chassis to create their own robots. This robot consists of the chassis (minus the vacuum cleaner ...

Robot’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy has sparked intense reactions, with opinions on regulation, innovation, manufacturing, and ...

iRobot has more than 6,000 defense and security robots deployed worldwide, with its machines in Japan helping clean up the Fukushima nuclear meltdown and in war zones detecting and disposing of ...