iRobot Receives Award for DARPA LANdroids Program
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iRobot Corp have today announced that it has received an award under the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) LANdroids program.
It is said that iRobot will develop a new portable communications relay robot that is small, inexpensive, intelligent and robust. The new effort takes advantage of the company’s extensive experience in mobile robot design and production.
The goal of the DARPA LANdroids program is to develop technologies to enable the war fighter operating in dense urban environments to rapidly deploy and maintain a vital communications infrastructure.
This robot will be small enough that a single dismounted war fighter can carry multiple robots, inexpensive to the point of being disposable, robust enough to allow the war fighter to drop and throw them into position, and smart enough to autonomously detect and avoid obstacles while navigating in the urban environment.
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