Helen Greiner

In the early days of iRobot, Greiner envisioned robots as the basis for an entirely new class of products that would improve life by taking on dangerous and undesirable tasks.

Greiner’s vision has been brought to life by products such as the iRobot Roomba® Vacuuming Robot, which has sold more than 1.5 million units to consumers throughout the world, and the iRobot PackBot® tactical mobile robot, which is helping to save soldiers’ lives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Greiner’s nearly 20 years in robot innovation and commercialization includes work at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab and MIT’s Artificial Intelligence Lab. She sits on a number of boards, including the National Defense Industrial Association. She is widely recognized for her visionary contributions in technology innovation and business leadership; Greiner was named by the Kennedy School at Harvard as one of America’s Best Leaders and was recently honoured with the Pioneer Award from the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International in appreciation for her work in military robotics.