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iRobot Moves Ahead With New Warrior Platforms

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Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

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By Ann Roosevelt iRobot [IRBT] is moving forward with a larger, powerful and rugged robot, the multi-mission, modular iRobot Warrior 700 that is very different from the more familiar PackBot and Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle (SUGV) also made by the company, according to a company official. "It's important because of its speed, its strength and mobility," Joe Dyer, president of iRobot Government and Industrial Robots, told Defense Daily at the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) annual conference in Washington,…

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