🔬 Corporate#99 Bedford, MA, USA· Est. 1990
iRobot — R&D (Roomba & Defense)
Creator of Roomba — the world's best-selling robot with 40M+ units sold. iRobot also pioneered military ground robots (PackBot) used in Iraq/Afghanistan for IED disposal.
home cleaning robotsdefense robotsautonomous navigationSLAMmapping
Notable achievements
40M+ Roomba units sold, PackBot military robot (IED disposal in Iraq/Afghanistan), Braava mopping robot, acquired by Amazon ($1.7B attempt, blocked), Colin Angle founding.
Notable work
Roomba j9+PackBotBraava
Recent publications
All papers →Matched by this lab's specialties (keyword overlap + direct affiliation)
PERCEPTION
Open access
Autonomous Frontier-Based Exploration with VLM Guidance
Aarush Aitha, Avideh Zakhor
2026