After leaving the MIT extraterrestrial labs, the three entrepreneurs focused their business on extraterrestrial exploration,introducing the Genghis for robotic researchers in 1990.In 1998,the founders shifted their focus onto military tactile robots and consumer robots after landing a pivotal contract with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Project Agency(DARPA).
This contract provided the funding for necessary R&D to develop new technologies. As a direct result, iRobot delivered the PacBot to the government in 2001 to assist in the search at the NYC World Trade Center.In 2010,thousands of PacBots were serving the country on the war front.