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The Motley Fool February 25, 2008 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: Sales Slip at Limited Brands In advance of the fashion retailer's earnings, analysts expect to see a drop in both sales and profits.
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The Motley Fool July 20, 2007 Billy Fisher	Sales Surge at Intuitive Surgical Huge demand for Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci robotic surgical system leads to an 84% increase in operating income and a huge jump in stock price.
The Motley Fool February 18, 2010 Rich Smith	iRobot Sweeps the Street $0.20 in Q4 earnings crush Street estimates by a margin of 25%.
The Motley Fool August 16, 2007 Rich Smith	Fool on the Street: iRobot Is Mutating The news out of iRobot's recent second-quarter earnings report was not entirely good. Thanks to a drawdown (and discounting) in inventories of domestic-servant robots -- Roombas and their ilk -- margins declined significantly.
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The Motley Fool August 20, 2007 Rich Smith	iRobot Gets a Bar Card The robot maker has no choice but to go after an ex-employee it claims infringed on its patents. What will it mean to investors?
The Motley Fool August 9, 2010 Dave Mock	3 Reasons to Sell iRobot Today Not everyone is on the buy side.
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.
The Motley Fool March 3, 2006 Rich Smith	Foolish Forecast: How Optimal Are These Robots? Optimal's stock has been on a tear over the past year, more than tripling the S&P's 6.5% gain. But there is more here than meets the eye. Investor, take note.
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The Motley Fool September 10, 2008 Rich Smith	iRobot: All Gas, No Brakes Two significant new announcements from iRobot.
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.
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.
Entrepreneur April 2003 April Y. Pennington	Mechanically Inclined These entrepreneurial robophiles take their business where no man has gone before.
The Motley Fool December 5, 2011 Navneet Bajaj	Why I'm Putting iRobot on My Watchlist This stock deserves a look.
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 July 20, 2010 Jim Mueller	Buy, Sell, or Hold Intuitive Surgical? Coming into the quarterly earnings, what should investors do regarding Intuitive Surgical? Here's a quick look at some arguments for the three possibilities.
The Motley Fool February 13, 2007 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Fall of the iRobot The consumer and tactical robotics specialist loses the quarterly battle. Military robots are neat lifesavers, but that's rarely enough to propel a stock higher.
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.
The Motley Fool January 20, 2012 Seth Jayson	Intuitive Surgical Beats Up on Analysts Yet Again For the quarter ended Dec. 31, Intuitive Surgical beat expectations on revenues and beat expectations on earnings per share.
The Motley Fool October 15, 2010 Brian Richards	Here's How Intuitive Surgical Makes Money A very simple look at the surgical robot maker's business model.
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The Motley Fool September 18, 2007 Jack Uldrich	iRobot Loses a Battle Shares fall following news that a major contract to supply lightweight tactical robots to the U.S. Army was awarded to a rival. Investors, take note.
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.
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The Motley Fool October 19, 2007 Billy Fisher	Defying Intuition at Intuitive Surgical Another round of good quarterly results brings another boost in surgical robot maker Intuitive Surgical's stock price. Investors, take note.
The Motley Fool May 22, 2008 Rich Smith	Fool on the Street: It Cleans, It Kills, It's iRobot Listen in as CEO Colin Angle tells you all about iRobot in the company's recent conference call..
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The Motley Fool October 27, 2006 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Attack of the iRobot The consumer robotics specialist has a blowout quarter but tempers its enthusiasm. There are so many cool things and products brewing at iRobot that it still makes perfect sense as a long-term investment for growth-stock fans.
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The Motley Fool June 2, 2006 Tim Beyers	Mr. Roboto Enlists A $64 million contract from the Navy couldn't come at a better time for iRobot. Investors, take note.
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 October 16, 2008 Brian Orelli	Foolish Forecast: Robots on the Cheap Intuitive Surgical releases earnings in a few hours. Here are some premonitions to tide you over as you anxiously wait the news.
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The Motley Fool November 12, 2008 Rich Smith	Lolly, Lolly, Lolly, Get Your Robots Here! iRobot is getting serious about retail. How serious? It's setting up shops in the mall.
The Motley Fool May 1, 2008 Rich Smith	iRobot: More Tricks Than Treats iRobot announces a new CEO and a big quarterly loss due to trouble at key customer Linens 'n Things.
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The Motley Fool November 23, 2005 Rick Munarriz	Daily Double: Intuitive Surgical While growth investors may not balk at paying 69 times this year's profits for a dynamic growth company like Intuitive Surgical, they may think twice if a bottom line dip prices the company at nearly 80 times forward earnings.
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.
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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.
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