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of our products may require the issuance of a license by the U.S. Department of State under the Arms Export
Control Act and its implementing Regulations, which licenses are generally harder to obtain and take longer to
obtain than do Export Administration Act licenses.
Our business may require the compliance with state or local laws designed to limit the uses of personal user
information gathered online or require online services to establish privacy policies.
Government and Industrial Product Backlog
Our government and industrial product backlog consists of written orders or contracts to purchase our
products received from our government and industrial customers. Total backlog of product sales to government
and industrial customers, which includes federal, state, local and foreign governments, and non-government
customers, as of December 31, 2011 and January 1, 2011 amounted to approximately $7.6 million and
$23.9 million, respectively. 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 our 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, 2011, we had 619 full-time employees located in the United States and abroad, of
whom 257 are in research and development, 153 are in operations, 86 are in sales and marketing and 123 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 and China. 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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