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7/18/2008 4:00 PM

iRobot Corp (IRBT)

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The Company provides robots that enable people to complete complex tasks in a better way.

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Burlington (1), Robots (4), Micro Cap (4824), Massachusetts (16), Military Contracts (7), Products for Nerds (6), Founder CEO (24), IPO in 2005 (12), Appliances (13)
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iRobot Corp At A Glance

Current Price: $12.50
Last Trade Time: 7/18/2008 4:00 PM
Open: $12.69
Previous Close: $12.62
Daily Range: $12.03 - $12.91
52-Week Range: $11.29 - $24.30
Volume: 115,927
Market Cap: $310.16M
P/E Ratio: 28.68
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Avatar costanostra (< 20) Submitted: 5/29/08 3:07 PM

If robots can travel to Mar's, we're probably going to be living with alot more of them on Earth in the near future.

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Avatar icon149 (99.77) Submitted: 3/20/08 12:22 PM

Increasing competition from respectable electronic companys like samsung... PE far to high for any bad news.

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Avatar DorMill (34.36) Submitted: 7/01/08 6:50 PM : Underperform Start Price: $13.22 IRBT Score: 3.20

This stock should be doing better than it is what with military contracts and domestic uses for robots. I expect it to wiggle around but not really do much.

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Avatar Bunsy1399 (< 20) Submitted: 6/23/08 6:21 PM : Outperform Start Price: $13.20 IRBT Score: -1.40

Well worth the watch as this company has a firm foot hold in both the retail market and military as well. They are well suited to take the lead in military hardware for supplying robots to take on the harsh condition of combat and to take our solders out of harms way. On the consumer side, they can takle the dull and mind numbing tasks associated with housework to allow the average household time to enjoy.

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Avatar paykh (47.44) Submitted: 6/21/08 9:36 PM : Outperform Start Price: $13.76 IRBT Score: -4.58

Growing contract with the military organization and research organization.

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Avatar deccles02 (49.47) Submitted: 6/19/08 12:57 PM : Outperform Start Price: $13.16 IRBT Score: 1.07

The Company provides robots that enable people to complete complex tasks in a better way.

iRobot today (June 19) won a $3.3 million contract to build a shape-shifting, flexible robot for dangerous or hard to reach combat duties.

The robot is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s(DARPA) Chemical Robots (ChemBots)program that seeks to build soft, flexible, mobile objects that can identify and maneuver through openings smaller than their static structural dimensions; reconstitute size, shape, and features while delivering a meaningful payloads or performing significant tasks, DARPA said. DARPA notes too that ChemBotsrepresent the convergence of soft materials chemistry and robotics to create a fundamentally new class of soft meso-scale robots.

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Avatar AgeOfRobots (< 20) Submitted: 6/11/08 3:10 PM : Outperform Start Price: $13.14 IRBT Score: 1.65

This is a long term consumer robotics play that is to be held for more than a decade. Consumer robotics is a nascent industry just as the personal computer was decades ago.





The Roomba is but the ancestor of what will be increasingly more advanced personal robots, and I believe that in time, iRobot will be the "Apple" of consumer robotics. Until then, the company will continue to enjoy steady business from the Department of Defense all the while improving its craft.





This is where the "vision thing" comes into play...

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TrackJimCramer 82.55 01/29/07 Underperform 3W $18.58-32.72%-11.26%+21.46

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