Colin Angle
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| Public | |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: IRBT S&P 600 Component |
| Industry | Robots |
| Founded | 1990 |
| Founder | Rodney Brooks, Colin Angle and Helen Greiner |
| Headquarters | Bedford, Massachusetts, U.S.A |
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Key people
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Rodney Brooks, Founder Colin Angle, Founder/CEO/Chairman Helen Greiner, Founder |
| Products |
Domestic robots Military robots |
| Revenue |
 660.6 million USD (2016) |
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57.6 million USD (2016) |
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41.9 million USD (2016) |
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| Total assets | US$507.9 million (2016) |
| Total equity | US$389 million (2016) |
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Number of employees
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528 (2014) |
| Website | www |
iRobot Corporation is an American advanced technology company founded in 1990 by three MIT graduates who designed robots for space exploration and military defense.Incorporated in Delaware, the company designs and builds consumer robots for inside and outside of the home, including a range of autonomous home vacuum cleaners (Roomba), floor moppers (Braava), and other autonomous cleaning solutions.
iRobot was founded in 1990 by Rodney Brooks, Colin Angle and Helen Greiner after working in MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab.
iRobot has sold more than 8 million home robots, and has deployed more than 5,000 defense & security robots, as of 2012.
In addition to deployment as bomb-disposal units with the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, PackBots have been used to gather data in dangerous conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster site, and an IRobot Seaglider detected underwater pools of oil after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
iRobot has been criticized for attempting unregulated use of 6240-6740 MHz band, and asking for an FCC exemption to do so. This band is for use for the lawn mowing robot without needing to use an electronic fence as a boundary marker, instead by using radio beacons. The band falls into a band reserved for radio astronomy use, thus interfering with radio telescope observations of methanol's 6.66852 GHz emissions.
In February 2016, iRobot announced that it would sell its military robotics business to Arlington Capital Partners, in order to focus more on the consumer market.
Roomba is an automated vacuum cleaning robot first released in 2002. Roomba is powered by a rechargeable battery, and many models are available with a docking station to which the Roomba should return to recharge at the end of its cleaning cycle. They work in conjunction with accessories that use both IR and RF.
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