iRobot helps out the Military by keeping them safe

I got a note this morning from my friend Alli from Mrs. Fussypants about her trip to the iRobot Summit and the That’s Ingenious Challenge!  You can read Alli’s post and get the details about the contest here

We used to have an iRobot Roomba when we lived in Virginia. When SGT Daddy bought it a couple of years ago, i wasn’t crazy about it, to be honest. I thought it was so small and with all the dog hair in our house, we would have to stop a lot to empty it and restart it again. After using it awhile, I began to like it. It was almost a “set it and forget it ” type of thing!  I really loved it for our kitchen area.. it was truly the perfect size.

Unfortunately, it only lasted a year due to  the size of our living room, the amount of dog hair in our home and the fact our dog Ranger would ponce on it like it was a mouse or something.  (Ranger is our 65 lb. Lab, so you can imagine) That little thing took quite a beating!!

When I was reading about iRobot’s That Ingenious Challenge , I was really surprised to hear about their connection to the military. They created some of their robots(Packbots)  to help the military deal with explosive devices. How cool is that!!

Here is one of them… his nickname is Scooby Doo.

Scooby didn’t make it either when an device he was examining exploded. He took the risk so one of our soldiers didn’t have too. Awesome huh??

(pictures courtesy of irobot.com & Alli Worthington ~ Mrs. Fussypants.com )

Tagged as: iRobot, Military Bliss, Mrs. Fussypants, Tammy Munson, That's Ingenious Challenge