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iRobot makes the well-loved robotic vacuum cleaner called Roomba - and it also builds robots for the military for doing dangerous jobs like handling bombs in Iraq and Afghanistan. iRobot recently won a Pentagon contract worth up to $300 million to build new robots, but the company had to go to court to get the deal done. That's because the military initially gave the contract to a former iRobot who was employee accused by iRobot of stealing its designs, according to a story in the most recent issue of Wired.

Guest: Noah Shachtman, Wired