The 42-pound robot can carry payloads equal to its own weight at speeds up to 6 mph, operating on a single battery for a full day. One PackBot is designed to detect enemy snipers using a ...

At today’s 22nd National Space Symposium, the iRobot PackBot® Tactical Mobile Robot will be inducted into the 2006 Space Technology Hall of Fame. iRobot Corp. (NASDAQ:IRBT – News), along with ...

"I really look at PackBot as the F-18 of ground robots," said Dyer, the former head of Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) and current chair of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel.

The robotics industry is not big enough to drive technological innovation on its own, so it relies on electronics used in similar platforms Commercial computer hardware is the key to building a ...

Thousands of U.S. soldiers have been killed, injured or permanently crippled because of small explosive devices in Iraq and Afghanistan, turning the simplest job in the field into a life-threatening ...