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Government Product Backlog
Our government product backlog consists of written orders or contracts to purchase our products received
from our government customers. Total backlog of product sales to government customers as of December 31,
2005 amounted to approximately $10.9 million, with all orders scheduled for shipment within nine months.
We did not maintain detailed backlog data as of the end of the comparable prior year period primarily because
the volume of orders that we received prior to January 1, 2005 was not sufficient to result in significant
backlog. We do not have long-term contracts with non-government customers, and purchases from our non-
government customers generally occur on an order-by-order basis, which can be terminated or modified at any
time by these customers. In addition, our funded research and development contracts may be cancelled or
delayed at any time without significant, if any, penalty. As a result, we believe that backlog with respect to
product sales to our non-government customers and funded research and development is not meaningful.
There can be no assurance that any of our backlog will result in revenue.
Employees
As of December 31, 2005, we had 276 full-time employees located in the United States and abroad, of
whom 142 are in research and development, 46 are in operations, 24 are in sales and marketing and 64 are in
general and administration. We believe that we have a good relationship with our employees.
Available Information
We were incorporated in California in August 1990 under the name IS Robotics, Inc. and reincorporated
as IS Robotics Corporation in Massachusetts in June 1994. We reincorporated in Delaware as iRobot
Corporation in December 2000. We conduct operations and maintain a number of subsidiaries in the United
States and abroad, including operations in Hong Kong and India. We also maintain iRobot Securities
Corporation, a Massachusetts securities corporation, to invest our cash balances on a short-term basis. Our
website address is www.irobot.com. Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q,
Current Report on Form 8-K and amendments to those reports filed or furnished pursuant to Section 13(a) or
15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 are available through the investor relations page of our internet
website as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the
Securities and Exchange Commission.
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