iRobot secures licensing agreement for University of Washington's Seagliders
| June 12, 2008 |  View for printing |
University of Washington record-holding, ocean-observing robots that operate at sea for months at a time -- traveling thousands of miles at the behest of operators on land directing activities via a satellite phone network -- will be commercially produced by iRobot under a licensing agreement announced this week.
iRobot has secured rights to the Seaglider vehicle and technology with an agreement through UW TechTransfer. iRobot is a U.S. company that makes behavior-based robots for the consumer market and the military that are able to do a range for tasks from cleaning floors to disarming explosives.
Sandra Hines shines@u.washington.edu
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