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The iRobot Government & Industrial Robots
Division Research Group performs cutting-edge
robotics research, funneling the resulting technologies into
iRobot product lines that cover a wide variety of mission profiles.
Division Research Group performs cutting-edge
robotics research, funneling the resulting technologies into
iRobot product lines that cover a wide variety of mission profiles.
The Research Group
continually develops state-of-the-art robots by:
continually develops state-of-the-art robots by:
- Pursuing R&D opportunities with leading academic research institutions,
businesses and other technology innovators - Leveraging experience as a systems integrator to put together best-in-class teams of partners from a wide range of technology areas
- Meeting the advanced needs of sponsors with integrated robotic solutions
- Providing a direct path to commercialization for innovations resulting
from research initiatives
To make our robots smarter, easier to use and more capable, the Research Group focuses on four Core Technology Areas.
| mobile robots are used today in a many-to-one relationship, requiring two | |
| soldiers to operate one robot. the future of mobile robots is true force | |
| multiplication: one soldier in a secure location directing the actions of | |
| multiple unmanned systems in a fully-networked and collaborative | environment, including air-ground-sea collaborative autonomy. |  |
| while teleoperated robots need a person to control every move, | |
| semi-autonomous operations enable robots to think and act intelligently. | |
| research group projects cover a number of areas, including | |
| perception for robot autonomy, autonomous behaviors and | autonomous navigation. | |
| some technologies expand the boundaries of mobile robots, | |
| others leave those boundaries behind. these projects use basic | |
| scientific research to provide new technologies that | |
| revolutionize mobile robots. | |
| human-robot interaction (hri) is a broad area of study covering robot | |
| command and control, how information is presented to the user and how | |
| data from one unmanned system fuses into the situational awareness | |
| of the overall mission. several research group projects | |
| focus on multi-robot control and natural hri. | |
