From living rooms to battlefields at iRobot (photos)

Another Landroid, this is a much newer prototype that was commissioned by DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. It features an autonomous communications network, and by working in a mobile communications relay node together with several other similar devices, is designed to help keep soldiers tethered to a communications network, even if they're inside buildings or other difficult areas.

Click here to read the related story on iRobot's history and its future. And click here to check out the entire Road Trip 2010 package.

July 15, 2010 4:00 AM PDT

Photo by: Daniel Terdiman/CNET

| Caption by: Daniel Terdiman