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 ...

Robots that played a role in Iraq could keep enterprise employees out of danger in the future ...

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 ...

The two contracts span nearly the full portfolio of Flir Defense’s unmanned ground systems – from the six-pound throwable FirstLook to the man-portable PackBot, relied on by the U.S. military for bomb ...

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 ...