iRobot
US robotics company that produces autonomous robots, including the Roomba vacuum and PackBot military and disaster-response robots.
2 milestones
iRobot Roomba Launch
In September 2002, iRobot Corporation released the Roomba, a disc-shaped autonomous vacuum cleaner priced at USD 199. The product demonstrated that a reactive, behaviour-based robot could navigate unstructured domestic environments without maps, bringing autonomous robotics into mainstream consumer households.
iRobot PackBot Deployed at World Trade Center Disaster Site
In September 2001, iRobot Corporation deployed PackBot ground robots to search the rubble of the World Trade Center following the 11 September attacks, representing one of the first operational uses of an autonomous mobile robot in a disaster-response mission.