Kayla Mederos adored her Roomba. She named it “WALL-E,” after Pixar’s trash-smashing space robot, and set it loose to collect the fur her yellow Labrador shed inside her Northern California home. When ...

Over the last few weeks, iRobot has added Matter support to more of its Roomba robot vacuums, allowing them to be integrated with the Home app and used with Siri voice commands. Matter integration has ...

Few know Roomba wasn’t the original robot vacuum. The Swedish company Electrolux beat Roomba by one year when it brought the amusingly named Trilobite to market in 2001. It’s a surprise fact because ...

The home-vacuum robot began, like most things, with war. In August 1990, the same month and year Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, three MIT roboticists incorporated the company that would eventually ...

iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuum cleaner, filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 14, saying it would go private after being purchased by its Chinese manufacturer. In a news release on ...

For over two decades, iRobot’s Roomba was a symbol of futuristic living, a small robot quietly cleaning homes. This redefined what consumer robotics could be. Founded by scientists from the ...

Once hailed as a pioneer of smart-home technology, the company that brought robot vacuums into everyday households is now facing a harsh reality. iRobot, the maker of Roomba, has filed for Chapter 11 ...

iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware Firm struggles with lower-priced rivals, US tariffs iRobot to be bought by primary manufacturer Picea Robotics Dec 14 (Reuters) - iRobot ...

Roomba maker iRobot has filed for bankruptcy — and customers are worried that their pricey vacuums could stop working. The 35-year-old, publicly held company will be taken over by its Chinese supplier ...

iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier. The ...

iRobot, the manufacturer of the Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the US. This action is part of a restructuring plan where Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, iRobot's ...

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