Roomba maker iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday and said the robotic vacuum cleaner would sell itself to a Chinese contract manufacturer. Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co., which ...

iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the District of Delaware court on Sunday, bringing an end to more than three decades as a public company. The Massachusetts-based maker of the ...

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Founded in 1990 by three M.I.T. researchers, iRobot introduced its vacuum in 2002. Its restructuring will turn the company over to its largest creditor. By Meaghan Tobin and Xinyun Wu Reporting from ...

We first told you about iRobot’s new Create robot yesterday, but now we have more. Basically this is a Roomba, minus all of the vacuuming utensils and adding a bunch of ports that allow the modders to ...

iRobot is trying to expand their market beyond just mopping and vacuuming, with the iRobot Create. It’s basically just the body of the Scooba without the brushes or cleaning fluid tank. Instead they ...