The AP has a nice profile piece on Helen Greiner, one of the co-founders of iRobot, who is coincidentally also launching their next wave of home robots, the floor-mopping Scooba. While we know just about everything we need to about iRobot's current offering (the Roomba, mostly, along with the PackBot military bot), there is a tantalizing hint about their next military unit, a "semiautonomous battlefield vehicle" being co-developed by John Deere.












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