Last month, a proud American company called iRobot filed for bankruptcy. Worse yet, the company will fall under the control of its largest creditor, a Chinese supplier. Years in the making, this ...

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Nearly twenty-three years ago, iRobot Corp. was in trouble. Its Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, after an initial burst of popularity, were gathering dust in warehouses during the crucial 2003 holiday ...

The sale of bankrupt robot vacuum maker iRobot to a Chinese firm is a done deal. Or is it? Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren suggested last week that iRobot’s acquisition by Shenzhen ...

Angle, who co-founded iRobot in 1990 at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, said on The New York Times' Hard Fork podcast that Chinese competitors had access to a domestic market iRobot could not ...

iRobot, the Massachusetts-based company behind the Roomba, a popular robotic vacuum cleaner, recently filed for bankruptcy. While best known for its in-home use, iRobot robotic cleaning systems are ...

Should Roomba owners worry about their robot vacuum after iRobot's bankruptcy? Here's what the company says. Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images It's been a tough few years for iRobot, maker of the ...

The Roomba maker is being sold to its Chinese contract manufacturer, a move Gary Cohen says will keep the company alive and allow it to grow.

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 Roomba vacuum cleaner, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday and is pursuing a buyout from its primary manufacturer in China after the company's acquisition by Amazon was ...