Brian Bennett is a former senior writer for the home and outdoor section at CNET. iRobot's new $600 Roomba i3 Plus strikes an interesting balance between price and features. This robot vacuum cleaner ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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(Bloomberg/Reshmi Basu and Dorothy Ma) — iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over ...

File this one under "This SUCKS" news: Roomba, the company behind the famous iRobot vacuum, has officially filed for bankruptcy. Roomba's bankruptcy filing isn't meant to regroup, it's meant to say ...