IRobot cut off one big chain that refused to switch to more prominent, specialized displays.
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"It's interesting to watch patients deal with it, " says Jeff Beck, chief operating office of iRobot.
Now, in the comparative comfort of its lab back home, iRobot is fine-tuning all those adjustments.
After the acquisition, Paolo Pirjanian, CEO of Evolution Robotics, will join iRobot as its Chief Technology Officer.
The ConnectR takes a whole new angle for iRobot, offering telepresence instead of the usual drudgery removal.
IRobot sold essentially the same version in different colors to every chain, which only encouraged them to discount heavily.
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RP-VITA is a joint effort between two industry leaders, iRobot and InTouch Health.
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Unfortunately for iRobot holders, peace is breaking out in the Middle East.
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And iRobot's beady laser eyes and limited animation make it look friendly -- a trait its makers fully intended.
Perhaps most important, iRobot added new models at higher prices with features like a HEPA filter, scheduling and room-by-room navigation.
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That link on SPARK takes you to the iRobot site dedicated to educational efforts for elementary school up to college.
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IRobot's manager of marketing, Cristina Addessa, argues that robots like the Looj tap into a shift toward aging gizmo buyers.
The military side of Irobot, run by Vice Admiral Joseph Dyer (ret.), is now the same size as the vacuum-cleaner business.
Without the military contracts for recon robots, iRobot might not have survived.
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For more than two decades, iRobot has led the global robot industry.
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"I was inspired to go into this field by seeing 'Star Wars' and the R2-D2 character, " said Helen Greiner, co-founder of iRobot.
Not least, she says iRobot is on track to achieve its three-year goals of mid-to-high teens revenue growth and mid-to-high adjusted EBITDA margin.
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Why is iRobot, purveyor of the Roomba and Scooba home-cleaning robots, making a three-to-five-foot tall robot with an Apple iPad for a head?
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IRobot is currently testing ConnectR, a surveillance bot similar to Rovio that lets consumers check in on elderly parents, among other watchful tasks.
Rovio and iRobot's ConnectR start to hint at the third stage of robotics: small, mobile robots with all the capabilities of a PC.
Some people have devoted their lives to developing robots, such as Colin Angle and Helen Greiner, who founded iRobot with their academic adviser, Rodney Brooks.
After the close yesterday, iRobot (IRBT) posted better-than-expected Q4 results.
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Lightning--or rather, lint--didn't strike until 2002, when Irobot debuted the Roomba.
The robot combines the latest in autonomous navigation and mobility technologies developed by iRobot with state-of-the-art telemedicine and electronic health record integration developed by InTouch Health.
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So Tom Frost, an iRobot engineer at the scene, built a makeshift network of radio repeaters by scavenging old Soviet trucks that littered Bagram Air Base.
And instead of a drag on the bottom line, Roomba has subsidized the development of what Angle hopes is the next big step for iRobot: health care.
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Robotics manufacture iRobot, which manufactures cleaning robots such as the Roomba, Looj and Scooba, announced today that it has acquired Evolution Robotics, which manufactures the Mint cleaning robot.
Looks like iRobot just violated the first law.
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