IRobot gets $286M Army robotics contract
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IRobot Corp. won a $286 million contract to supply the U.S. Army with bomb-disarming robots, wresting the deal from a smaller rival that iRobot claimed stole its trade secrets.
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Defense contractor Northrop Grumman  Corp  is teaming up with Oshkosh Truck Corp  in a  bid to supply military vehicles in a contract that could be  worth billions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported on  Tuesday.
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Science Applications International Corp  has won a one-year contract valued at up to $1.05 billion to provide maintenance, repair and operations supplies to the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, the Pentagon said on Monday.
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KBR , a former unit of  Halliburton Co. , Dyncorp International Inc.  and  Fluor Corp.  were awarded parts of a U.S. Army contract  with a combined potential value of up to $150 billion to  provide services to the military in the Middle East.
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IRobot Corp. of Burlington, the company made famous by its Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, is now offering a $130 automated sweeper called Dirt Dog that's programmed to track down heavy dirt -- the kind on garage or basement floors. Think of it as a shop vacuum -- without the vacuum.
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ManTech International Corp. of Fairfax won a $19.3 million contract to provide engineering and technical services to Brooke Army Medical Center at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio.
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The space agency taps Lockheed Martin and MD Robotics to build robotic technology it may use to repair the ailing Hubble Space Telescope. By Amit Asaravala.
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The U.S. military confirmed yesterday that it awarded the largest security contract in Iraq to a private British firm, Aegis Defence Services, in a deal worth up to $475 million over two years.
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The robot army is coming, and it's well armed. Wired tours the military robotics labs of the Space and Naval Warfare System Center, which is part junkyard, part high-tech weapons laboratory.
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By Hiawatha Bray, The Boston Globe  Sep. 13--IRobot Corp. of Burlington, the company made famous by its  Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, is now offering a $130 automated sweeper  called Dirt Dog that's programmed to track down heavy dirt -- the kind on  garage or basement floors.
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The rain is turning to snow on a blustery January morning, and all the men gathered in a parking lot here surely would prefer to be inside. But the weather couldn't matter less to the robotic sharpshooter they are here to watch as it splashes through puddles, the barrel of its machine gun pointing the way like Pinocchio's nose. The Army is preparing to send 18 of these remote-controlled robotic warriors to fight in Iraq beginning in March or April.
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Hewlett-Packard Co.  on Tuesday said it  received a 10-year contract from the U.S. Army to provide  personal computers and other computer peripherals.
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The federal government has approved plans to deploy a robot developed to help stroke victims gain control of arm muscles.
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Unscrewing the inscrutable DARPA*, the mad-as-a-bottle-of-crisps Pentagon warboffinry operation, has struck again - this time awarding a $13m contract to the University of Southern California to develop technology which will ensure that imported integrated circuits (ICs) used by the US military are trustworthy.â¦
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IRobot Corp , a maker of vacuums  and bomb defusers, said on Thursday it has developed a device  for cleaning gutters on homes and a Web-controlled robot with a  video phone.
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IBM has won a long-term contract from Honeywell worth several hundred million dollars, its largest military/aerospace engineering contract since IBM exited the field a decade ago, it said on Monday.
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RoboCops and robot soldiers got a little closer to reality Thursday as a maker of floor-cleaning automatons teamed up with a stun-gun manufacturer to arm track-wheeled 'bots for the police and the Pentagon.