iRobot Lands $22M in Army Contracts

Gregory T. Huang5/23/08

iRobot, based in Bedford, MA, announced it has received orders totaling some $22 million from the U.S. Army. The orders are from two separate contracts. The first ($16 million) calls for iRobot to deliver more than 200 robots to the infantry by October 31, while the second ($6.3 million) is for another set of military bots to be delivered by the end of September.

Gregory T. Huang is Xconomy's National IT Editor and the Editor of Xconomy Boston. You can e-mail him at gthuang@xconomy.com, call him at 617-252-7323, or follow him on Twitter at @gthuang.