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BURLINGTON, Mass., Aug. 7 (UPI) -- iRobot Corp has won $17.5 million in orders for its iRobot PackBot systems for the U.S. armed forces.
"The U.S. Army Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training, and Instrumentation on behalf of the Robotic Systems Joint Project Office at Redstone Arsenal, Ala., and the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) both placed orders for iRobot’s combat-proven military robots. iRobot expects to complete delivery by the end of January 2008," the company said in a statement last month.
"The initial PEO STRI contract was awarded under the Naval Air Systems Command’s (NAVAIR) contracting authority. PEO STRI has recently established its own contracting authority, and this contract was transitioned under that authority," it said.
"PEO STRI placed an order valued at more than $8.6 million for 14 iRobot PackBot robots with ICx Fido Kit and five iRobot PackBot EOD robots, plus spare parts. The PackBot robots will ship with iRobot’s new game-style hand controllers for faster training and easier operation in the field," the company said.
"This order brings the total PEO STRI orders to date to approximately $36 million. Under the terms of the existing Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (IDIQ) contract, PEO STRI could order up to the full $64.3 million value in robots, spare parts, training and repair services," it said.
"We see growing enthusiasm from our military customers for our reliable, life-saving PackBot robots,” said Vice Admiral Joe Dyer (U.S. Navy, Ret.), president of iRobot Government and Industrial Robots. “We will continue our efforts to improve our battle-proven technologies with innovations like PackBot’s new game-style hand controller, which takes advantage of hours of training our young men and women have logged with computer games, making them pre-trained PackBot operators.”
iRobot said it had so far built and sent to its customers "more than 1,000 PackBot robots to a broad range of military and civilian customers worldwide."
"The robots have performed tens of thousands of missions in Iraq and Afghanistan and are credited with saving soldiers’ lives," the company said.
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