Most people are familiar with iRobot Corp. through its line of home-cleaning robots: The ubiquitous Roomba vacuum is the most popular robot in the world.

But the Bedford, Mass., technology company does more than help keep your home dirt-free. For more than a decade, iRobot has supplied the U.S. Department of Defense and other countries with bomb-disposal robots (think “The Hurt Locker”), and the company has branched out into remote-presence technology for hospitals and business meetings.