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PC Magazine
December 14, 2005
Lance Ulanoff |
iRobot Scooba Floor Washing Robot This robot mop makes easy work of the dirtiest floor, but you'll pay handily and wait a while for it to get its work done.   |
PC Magazine
August 22, 2007
Brian Bennett |
iRobot Roomba 560 The latest Roomba takes a while to get the job done, but it boasts a slew of new features and improvements. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004 |
A Chat With Roomba Man The surprise success of iRobot's Roomba vacuum cleaner marked the arrival of mobile robotic appliances. Yet the company's CEO and co-founder is cautious about the future of more advanced humanoid robots. |
PC World
November 2005
Daniel Tynan |
Looking for a Few Good Bots: Robots for Work and Play The present and future of automated household machines programmed to do your bidding. |
Fast Company
Robb Todd |
iRobot's New Roomba Is A Cartographer And Has Its Own App (Finally) At first glance, it might seem a little underwhelming to the vacuumers of the world that the latest product from iRobot, the Roomba 980, boasts internal mapping as a key new feature. |
The Motley Fool
September 28, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
iRobot Pokes Its Head Out of the Gutter A robot to clean gutters could provide a needed boost to iRobot, helping it's stock recover some of the ground it recently gave up when it lost a major battle to supply military robots to the U.S. Army. |
The Motley Fool
May 23, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
2 Million Suckers Sold The consumer robotics specialist iRobot hits a big milestone with its vacuum-cleaning automatons. Investors, this is the ideal time to snap up a stake in the company at a relative bargain. |
Popular Mechanics
October 2007
Erik Sofge |
Roomba 560 Sets Up Virtual Walls for Robo-Cleaning The new Roomba 560 is not only a harder worker than its forebears, but it's more focused, thanks to two Virtual Wall Lighthouses that regulate when the bot can cross open doorways. |
The Motley Fool
October 4, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
iRobot's Emotional Appeal People's personal attachment to their Roomba vacuums bodes well for iRobot's future prospects. |
Entrepreneur
April 2003
April Y. Pennington |
Mechanically Inclined These entrepreneurial robophiles take their business where no man has gone before. |
PC Magazine
April 18, 2007
Erik Rhey |
Q&A: iRobot Co-Founder Helen Greiner The co-founder and chairman of the board for iRobot talks about the future of helper robots, the PackBot in war zones, and women in technology. |
The Motley Fool
September 14, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
iRobot Goes to the Dogs The consumer robotics specialist gets down and dirty with its new workshop automaton. The stock's languished trading provides a sharp contrast to the dynamic company that continues to grow sales on the consumer front. |
Inc.
July 1, 2003
Leigh Buchanan |
Death to Cool For years, iRobot designed stuff cool enough for the Sci-Fi Channel, but its new product sells on the Home Shopping Network. Here's how a boutique high-tech firm broke out by reinventing itself as an appliance company. |
The Motley Fool
June 21, 2011
Dan Radovsky |
Attack of the Killer Appliances! iRobot is an up-and-comer in the growth industry of police and military tactical robots. |
| Knowledge@Wharton |
The New Age of Service Robots: From Fighting Fires to Serving Beer R2-D2 and Rosie the robot maid may be coming soon to a home, or nursing home, near you. Thanks to advances in computing and navigation technology, robots -- including sophisticated robot toys and appliances -- are now being developed to serve people directly. |
The Motley Fool
August 9, 2010
Dave Mock |
3 Reasons to Sell iRobot Today Not everyone is on the buy side. |
BusinessWeek
September 5, 2005
Robert Barker |
A Robot That Could Hit A Wall iRobot, the makers of vacuum-robot Roomba, will soon release Scooba, an all-in-one house cleaning robot. iRobot is also preparing an IPO, though it's hard to determine what the company's true valuation should be. |
BusinessWeek
July 19, 2004 |
Ready To Buy A Home Robot? For a glimpse into the future, BusinessWeek checked out some of the most intriguing robotic developments -- things your digital home could grow to love. |
Home Toys
June 2002
Galaasen & Hengl |
Robotic Technology Has Arrived With the increased use of microchips in equipment such as appliances, heating and cooling systems, entertainment systems, fire and burglar alarms and the general trend towards home automation, advanced personal robotics naturally follows. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2012
Celia Gorman |
Is Slime Mold Smarter Than a Roomba? The humble protozoan glop can do some amazing things |
The Motley Fool
February 16, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Best Small Cap: iRobot In the spirit of the Winter Olympics, here are stock challenges from the publication's writers: iRobot is eking out a marginal profit at present, but that will likely change in the coming years. Investors, take note. |
CIO
August 27, 2008
Kristin Burnham |
5 Things iRobot President Helen Greiner Has Learned About Innovation Helen Greiner is president and co-founder of iRobot, a company that invents military and household robots. Innovation, she says, is the essence of her business. |
Home Toys
December 2004 |
Next Generation of Central Vacuums offers Wet and Dry Cleaning. Built-in central vacuums are now a standard feature with many home builders. Through studies and experience, central vacuums have proven to remove more soil and dust from a home then traditional upright or canister vacuums. |
PC Magazine
October 10, 2007 |
25 Years of PC Magazine: Year Twenty-One 2002 The events of the computer industry in 2002. |
Popular Mechanics
January 10, 2008
Erik Sofge |
Robot Paradox: Automated Gizmos Are Ready for Home--Are We? Robotics for your home. |
IndustryWeek
June 1, 2008
John Teresko |
A Robot that Can Smile or Frown MIT debuts Nexi, a robot with facial expressions. |
PC Magazine
September 13, 2006
Sebastian Rupley |
Bomb-sniffing Bot First came the Roomba vacuum cleaner. Now we have iRobot's PackBot EOD (short for explosive-ordnance disposal)... Now virtual surgery and soon a virtual human... |
The Motley Fool
August 29, 2005
Tom Taulli |
iRobot Marches on Wall Street The iRobot IPO will be a big test. Will investors take a flier on a money-losing company? |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2011
David Schneider |
Robot Gift Ideas These robotics kits can liven up the holidays -- and give a kid a taste of robotics engineering |
This Old House
Michelle Brunner |
Must-Know Tips for Dust-Busting A cleaning expert dishes the dirt on project cleanup. |
This Old House
Wilson Rothman |
Smart Home Gifts and Gadgets Just what you need: A floor-mopping robot, wireless music networks, cell-phone/home-phone convergence, and a microwave that can read. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2006
Tim Scannell |
The Next Battlefront For Robots Military robots may be at the front lines, but researchers are now looking at ways to use them to improve medicine and elder lifestyles. |
The Motley Fool
October 23, 2008
Anders Bylund |
The Rise of the Robots The maker of military and household helper robots has just raised guidance -- while almost everyone else is cutting theirs. |
InternetNews
December 12, 2006
Andy Patrizio |
Microsoft Launches Robotics Developer Kit Microsoft is introducing the Microsoft Robotics Studio SDK. It is designed to provide a simple, common platform for building software to drive any kind of robot. |
PC Magazine
November 2, 2004
Daniel S. Evans |
Jetsonize Your Home High tech gadgets for your home: The AOS iSeePet is a combination webcam and pet feeder... Sony AIBO dog-like robot... Aquabot Turbo T2 will scrub, vacuum, and filter algae from most residential pools... etc. |
Technology Research News
April 7, 2004
Kimberly Patch |
Robot guided by its voice Researchers generally help robots navigate by giving them the sense of sight. A simpler approach is based on another human trait: listening to the sound of one's own voice. It also helps if the walls have ears. |
The Motley Fool
April 20, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
Dueling Fools: iRobot Bull Investors, in the end, iRobot is too smart to fail. It's rich in patents, brainpower, and relevance in the consumer and military markets. Even if the numbers don't seem all that impressive, like all great technologies, good things come to those who wait. |
The Motley Fool
August 1, 2006
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
iRobot Pleases Humans The consumer robotics specialist hits the button to make mere mortals nod in approval. Investors seem to be waiting for profitability to expand the way it's supposed to next year. |
The Motley Fool
January 29, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
iRobot Is the Bomb Yes, the company finds itself trading for less than its $24 IPO price, but as long as there are bombs worth disarming and dirty floors worth cleaning, it's really just a matter of time before humans see more merit in iRobot. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2007
Steven Cherry |
Robots, Incorporated Microsoft's best and brightest are quietly trying to bring robotics into the mainstream. Good robotics programming is far harder than writing a typical application for personal computers. |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Guizzo & Ackerman |
How Rethink Robotics Built Its New Baxter Robot Worker Rodney Brooks's new start-up wants to spark a factory revolution with a low-cost, user-friendly robot |
The Motley Fool
August 30, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Bill Gates Wants to Read Your Mind Computers may soon be able to respond to brain waves. If nothing else, this new technology should give Microsoft investors some interesting food for thought. |
Entrepreneur
January 2008
Amanda C. Kooser |
Rise of the Robots Robots are well on their way from the pages of science fiction to your front door. In fact, advanced humanoid robots could be a part of our everyday life as early as 10 years from now. |
The Motley Fool
April 27, 2007
Jack Uldrich |
Growing Robots From the Ground Up Patient, long-term investors are encouraged to stay abreast of trends in the robotics field because as people become more comfortable with robots, the field will grow up fast. |
BusinessWeek
March 3, 2011
Brian Bremner |
Service Robots: Rise of the Machines (Again) U.S. companies chase the fast-growing market for service bots |
The Motley Fool
July 27, 2006
Anders Bylund |
Meet Microsoft's Mr. Roboto Will we all want to thank the Redmond giant for revolutionizing robotics someday soon? This stock might be worth a look. |
PC Magazine
January 29, 2004
Sebastian Rupley |
Racy Robots Military aircraft inspired the slick-looking designs for a new line of robots from start-up company White Box Robotics. Unlike the predetermined features in most robots, White Box's robots will be designed to let each owner choose what his robot will do. |
The Motley Fool
March 16, 2007
Rick Aristotle Munarriz |
iRobot vs. New Oriental Education: iRobot In honor of the annual NCAA College Basketball Tournament, a.k.a. March Madness -- here is "Stock Madness 2007." If iRobot's aim is true, this stock is a bargain at today's levels. |
PC Magazine
May 20, 2009
Lance Ulanoff |
The Future of Robots: Prepare to Be Underwhelmed Still waiting for that ultimate robot companion? Don't hold your breath. |
The Motley Fool
April 28, 2011
Rich Smith |
iRobot Blows a Gasket It looks like iRobot shareholders have vacuumed up all the profits they're likely to get for a while. |
