Two decades after it ignited a market for robot vacuums in homes, iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company, best known for its Roomba robot vacuums, entered the filing late ...

As iRobot's founder Colin Angle looks back on its path to bankruptcy, he says it was hard to overcome competitors in China.

(Yicai) Dec. 18 -- Picea Robotics, iRobot's largest creditor and contract manufacturer, will retain the brand of the bankrupt US maker of Roomba robot vacuum cleaners, which it recently agreed to ...

We look back at some of the many robots that iRobot developed in addition to the Roomba over the past 35 years.

After 35 years of being in the robot vacuum cleaner business, iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Despite this, iRobot is going private as it’s been bought by Picea Robotics – so what does ...

Shares of iRobot plummeted Monday after the Roomba robot vacuum maker announced a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing on Sunday.

Roombas are an extremely popular brand of robot vacuum cleaners. iRobot holds a commanding 42 percent market share in the U.S ...

Robot, the maker of Roomba, filed for bankruptcy due to intense Chinese competition and failed regulatory approvals.

Robot vacuums are handy little devices that can help folks save a ton of time and energy. However, some of the more well-known options are often a bit pricey, especially when a mopping function comes ...

Welcome to T3's review of the new iRobot Roomba Combo J9+, a robot vacuum cleaner that also mops the floor using replaceable mops fitted to an auto-retracting mopping mechanism that raises whenever ...

An older Roomba model cleaning a floor, seen from above. - Onfokus/Getty Images We'll never know how Roomba maker iRobot would have fared under Amazon leadership, as the proposed purchase fell through ...

ROBOTS HAVE LONG BEEN seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors - too complicated, capital-intensive and "boring, ...