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Industry Segment, Geographic Information and Significant Customers (Tables)

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2011

Segment Reporting [Abstract]

Segment information about revenue, cost of revenue, gross margin and income before income taxes

		Fiscal Year Ended
		December 31, 2011				January 1, 2011				January 2, 2010
		(In thousands)
Revenue:
Home Robots		$	278,551			$	229,348			$	165,860
Government & Industrial Robots			186,949				171,604				132,757
Total revenue			465,500				400,952				298,617
Cost of revenue:
Home Robots			152,723				137,568				112,429
Government & Industrial Robots			120,659				117,952				94,992
Total cost of revenue			273,382				255,520				207,421
Gross margin:
Home Robots			125,828				91,780				53,431
Government & Industrial Robots			66,290				53,652				37,765
Total gross margin			192,118				145,432				91,196
Research and development			36,498				24,809				14,747
Selling and marketing			58,544				50,535				40,902
General and administrative			43,753				36,618				30,110
Other income (expense), net			218				504				(81	)
Income before income taxes		$	53,541			$	33,974			$	5,356

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Tabular disclosure of the profit or loss and total assets for each reportable segment. An entity discloses certain information on each reportable segment if the amounts (a) are included in the measure of segment profit or loss reviewed by the chief operating decision maker or (b) are otherwise regularly provided to the chief operating decision maker, even if not included in that measure of segment profit or loss.

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