iRobot Corporation is an American advanced technology company founded in 1990 by three MIT graduates who designed robots for space exploration and military defense. Incorporated in Delaware, the company designed and built consumer robots for inside and outside the home, including autonomous home vacuum cleaners (Roomba), floor craftsmen (Braava), and other autonomous cleaning devices.
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Histori
iRobot was founded in 1990 by Rodney Brooks, Colin Angle and Helen Greiner after working at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
- In 1998, the company received a DARPA research contract that led to the development of PackBot.
- In September 2002, iRobot launched the home robot superior, Roomba, which sold a million units in 2004.
- iRobot started trading on NASDAQ in November 2005, with the IRBT ticker symbol.
- On September 17, 2012, iRobot announced it has acquired Evolution Robotics, the maker of the automatic floor Mint.
iRobot has sold more than 8 million home robots, and has deployed more than 5,000 defense & robot security, by 2012.
In addition to placement as a bomb disposal unit with the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, PackBots has been used to collect data in hazardous conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster site, and an Seaglider IRobot detects an underwater oil pool after Deepwater Horizon oil spills.
iRobot has been criticized for trying to use the unregulated 6240-6740 MHz ribbon, and requested the FCC's release to do so. The band is used to cut grass robots without the need to use electronic fences as a boundary marker, not by using radio beacons. The band fell into the band provided for the use of radio astronomy, thus disrupting the observations of radio telescopes from methanol emissions of 6.66852Ã, GHz.
In February 2016, iRobot announced that it would sell its military robotics business to Arlington Capital Partners, to focus more on the consumer market.
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Home robot
Roomba
Roomba is the first automatic vacuum cleaner robot released in 2002. Roomba is powered by rechargeable batteries, and many models are available with docking stations where Roomba has to recharge at the end of its cleaning cycle. They work together with accessories that use IR and RF.
The company deliberately allows customers to hack the robot because they want people to experiment and improve the product. APIs for serials have been published and serial ports are made easily accessible to make modifications easy to do.
Braava
Braava is an iRobot Floor Floor Robot, designed to work on all hard surfaces. Braava uses a disposable cleaning cloth or microfiber for wet and/or dry cleaning. This design is known as Mint until 2013. It was developed by Evolution Robotics, which was acquired by iRobot in 2012.
Create
Create is a hobby robot, released in 2007. Create users offer the possibility of altering or adapting robotic functions through experiments with basic robotics elements as well as by adding sensors, grippers, wireless connections, computers, or other hardware.
Mirra
Mirra is a pool cleaning robot released in 2013. Mirra cleans the floor and pool walls of large and small debris. This is Verro's successor.
In Development
Robotic Lawn Mower
- In recent developments, iRobot has recently received FCC approval to move forward with their plans to commercialize and build robotic lawnmowers capable of using wireless technology, similar to their Roomba robots
Products stopped
Scooba
Scooba is an iRobot floor washer robot. This product became available commercially in limited quantities by the end of 2005 before the complete product release in 2006. The initial model requires a special non-bleach cleaning solution or white vinegar to wash hard floors. The newer units can use plain water. Several versions are marketed. iRobot gradually erases Scooba's product line by supporting the Braava floor machete in 2016.
Dog Shit (char)
Dirt Dog is designed for use in workshops and released in 2006. This product takes small items such as nuts, bolts, dirt, and debris from a similar workshop or floor. This unit can be used on hard floors, store carpets and industrial floor surfaces. The Dirt Dog was suspended at the end of 2010.
Jade My True Baby
My Real Baby is a robot toy that is marketed by iRobot from the year 2000 and is produced in partnership with the Hasbro toy manufacturer. It's no longer in production. This product, which is meant to look like a human baby, uses animatronic facial expressions and is developed from an expressive and emotionally responsive robot developed by the iRobot company called "IT."
ConnectR
Connect R was made in 2010 and then discontinued.
Verro
Verro is a pool cleaning robot released in April 2007.
Looj
Looj is a dirt-cleaning robot released in September 2007, and based on an autonomous version created for the science project created by Lucas Garrow in 2004 (Garrow was a finalist in 2004 The Discovery Channel of Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC)). Looj is not an autonomous robot, but a remote patterned robot that is patterned after a toy tank with auger mounted on the front. The robot fits inside most of the ditch to clean up the debris trapped inside it, like the leaves and pine needles. It has a long footprint on its side that allows it to move inside the gutter. Auger pulls and lifts almost all the debris inside the gutter by throwing it sideways into the air. Looj also has a removable grip/remote that is used to carry and operate the robot. It was discontinued in 2017.
Military robot and policing
Airarm is a inflatable arm robot developed by iRobot. The inflatable arm uses the pump to expand the arm. Because arms use strings and actuators, no motor is used in the joints.
FirstLook
FirstLook is a small spy robot weighing 5.2 lb (2.4 kg) with a top speed of 3.8 mph (6.1 km/h) and a line of sight range of 200 m (219 yd). It has a visible digital and infrared camera and sensor to collect and transmit pictures of buildings, caves, or other locations. He can participate in the disposal of explosive weapons by carrying 2.5-liter (1.1 kg) C4 explosives to IEDs. This robot has the ability to unite the feed network of other robots to extend the range of the sensor. FirstLook has a CBRN and semi-autonomous detector, which means it can perform tasks such as correction only and flip itself without direct intervention. 100 purchased by JIEDDO in March 2012 and the Pentagon has ordered hundreds more.
Medical Robot
RP-VITA
- RP-VITA, or Virtual Remote Presence Independent Telemedicine Assistant, is a medical robot manufactured in conjunction with InTouch Health. The robot will connect to the cloud and have access to the patient's medical record, and will also be able to install diagnostic devices such as stethoscopes, otoscopes, and ultrasound.
Research robots and dual role
Ranger
- Ranger is a human portable UUV that supports technology development related to mine warfare, expeditionary warfare, domestic defense, underwater surveillance/surveillance and other missions. Ranger is also suitable for marine research and commercial applications related to search and survey.
Seaglider
- Seaglider is a long-term dual-role undersea autonomous vehicle that enters production under an exclusive manufacturing agreement from the University of Washington. Capable of operating for months over thousands of miles with one battery charge, the Seagliders network provides naval scientists and intelligence with a cost-effective, real-time access to oceanographic measurements. The Seaglider is also used in military applications where more are usually set up as unmanned underwater vehicles.
See also
- Artificial Intelligence
- Autonomous research robot
- DARPA
- Domestic robot
- House automation
- List of vacuum cleaners
- Neato Robotics
- Robot
- Roomba
- Scooba
- Swarm intelligence
References
External links
- Official website
- A visit to iRobot and an interview with Joe Dyer. The Sunday Times 31 May 2009, Mark Harris
- An interview with Helen Greiner, one of the founders of iRobot
- Irobot Reviews
- The New York Times article on military robots includes the iRobot botbot
- iRobot on antisniper devices
- iRobot 310 SUGV
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