iRobot Wins $3.75M Army Contract to Develop Warrior Robot

Robotics, Defense, Contracts Wade Roush wrote: Bedford, MA-based iRobot said today that the U.S. Army’s Tank-Automotive Research, Development and Engineering Center (TARDEC) will pay the company $3.75 million to build and deliver two “Warrior 700″ robots (pictured here.) The Warrior, which has been under development for more than two years, is designed to serve as the big brother of iRobot’s popular Packbot device, which is already widely used for bomb-sniffing and other hazardous situations
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