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 ...

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 ...

BEDFORD, Mass., Sept. 9 (UPI) --Nearly two dozen robotic reconnoitering systems are to be provided to the Canadian Department of National Defense by Massachusetts-headquartered iRobot Corp. The 20 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Brazil will host both Pope Francis and the FIFA World Cup in 2014, and the 2016 Olympic Games will be held in Rio de Janeiro, leading the government to invest in additional security. The Brazilian ...

iRobot Corporation has received an order totaling $5.8 million under its current xBot contract with the U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI). This ...