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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, which includes federal, state,
local and foreign governments, as of December 27, 2008 and December 29, 2007 amounted to approximately
$8.4 million and $26.1 million, respectively. 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 27, 2008, we had 479 full-time employees located in the United States and abroad, of whom
216 are in research and development, 118 are in operations, 41 are in sales and marketing and 104 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, the United Kingdom, China 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 Reports on Form 10-Q, Current Reports 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 free of charge 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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Form 10-K