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 ...

October 13, 2010: The U.S. Army is buying better software for its PackBot 510/FasTac remotely controlled robots. Increasingly, it's the software, not the basic design or accessories, that are the most ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

As Danger Room reports, iRobot's currently working hard to churn out the bots that'll form the so-called "robot surge" the Army has planned, but the company did recently take the time to show off the ...