Assistant Secretary of the Navy visits iRobot
BURLINGTON, Mass. - June 6, 2006 - Dr. Delores M. Etter, Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition, visited iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) headquarters in Burlington, Mass., today to learn more about the company’s military robots and see some prototypes and payloads that are being integrated into the robots. Etter (center), along with Roger Smith (left), Deputy Assistant Secretary for the Navy, Littoral and Mine Warfare Programs, view the iRobot PackBot® in action.
A leading developer of behavior-based robots, iRobot has delivered more than 500 PackBot robots worldwide. These robots have performed tens of thousands of missions around the world and are credited with saving scores of soldiers’ lives.
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