Last week's contest: Roomba maker iRobot has declared bankruptcy, leading to an outpouring of grief from robotic vacuum owners who treated the devices like pets. In seven or fewer words, come up with ...

Jan 22 (Reuters) - A U.S. bankruptcy judge on Thursday approved a Chinese manufacturer's bid to acquire Roomba maker iRobot, although the sale still requires clearance from other U.S. regulators. The ...

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 ...

Roomba once looked like the future. Its maker, iRobot, filled American homes with small but affordable robots that helped keep households clean and cats endlessly occupied. But iRobot has now filed ...

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 ...

Roomba maker iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but says that it doesn’t expect any disruptions to devices as the more than 30-year-old company is taken private under a ...

The company behind the Roomba automatic vacuum cleaner is filing for bankruptcy and will be taken private for restructuring. iRobot said it was under Chapter 11 protection but did not anticipate any ...

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 is being bought by Picea as part of a bankruptcy process. The company, which manufactures iRobot vacuums, made the move after facing financial challenges in the past few years. Roomba maker ...