Tag archive: iRobot

From the people that brought you the famous and awesome Roomba floor vacuum comes a tiny robot to help you clean those floors that need washing, not vacuuming. The iRobot Scooba 230 ($TBA) is the company's smallest cleaning robot yet at only 6.5 inches in diameter, meaning it is ideal for cleaning around tight spaces like your bathroom's sink and toilet. Because let's face it, if this robot doesn't do it, those areas… Read More

Tablets, TVs, e-readers, smartphones, and 3D glasses are great and all, but let's face it: robots are the future. They're metal, they're shiny, they're creepy, and they're at CES. Before we left the show last week, we took a trip to the Robotics Zone of the South Hall to see what animatronic miracles were conjured up this year. Unfortunately, all the fuss over touch screens and telephones has lead to a serious… Read More

The next generation of military robot won’t be gun-toting, armored, or equipped with explosives. Instead, it will be soft. So says iRobot about the next custom robot it will be engineering for the U.S. military. The company announced Tuesday that it had received a multi-year, $3.3 million contract for the mobile robots from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the U.S. Army Research Office. Their mission: build… Read More

It may not be quite as exciting as the robot wars that play out in movies and television, but a battle between two robot manufacturers is raging now –  in courtrooms. Massachusetts-based iRobot filed suit against Robotic FX back in August for allegedly infringing on trade secrets from iRobot’s PackBot robot, and on Monday, iRobot announced it had secured an injunction in the case that will prevent the Robot FX from using… Read More

Up until now, the consumer robots from Massachusetts-based iRobot have all been relatively mundane service automatons. They could sweep floors, vacuum pools, and the latest could even clean gutters – but none really approached the 21st-century gee-whizz factor we’ve come to expect from robots. They were just sophisticated cleaning tools. That changes somewhat with the new iRobot ConnectR. Although there’s no brilliant Asimov-esque artificial… Read More

If building a BattleBot is a little too violent for your tastes, a new robot-building challenge may just give you a more civil outlet for your constructive impulses. The company that produces the Roomba floor-cleaning robot, iRobot, has teamed up with Tom’s Hardware Guide and Instructables to sponsor a contest, beginning Wednesday, which challenges builders to build their own open-ended creations for a $5,000 prize. Contestants must… Read More