Chinese robotics manufacturers are set to cement their dominance in the global smart vacuum market with Picea Robotics’ acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot, after the US firm’s proposed sale to ...

Chinese robotics manufacturers are set to cement their dominance in the global smart vacuum market with Picea Robotics' acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot, after the US firm's proposed sale to ...

We learned earlier this week that iRobot, the company behind Roomba, had been taken over by a Chinese contract manufacturing company, Picea, following years of financial struggles. The deal has led to ...

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 ...

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 ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." Few know Roomba wasn’t the original robot vacuum. The Swedish company Electrolux beat Roomba by one year ...

iRobot, the creator of Roomba, filed for bankruptcy on Sunday. If Amazon had been allowed to acquire the company in 2022, consumers likely would have enjoyed improved quality and lower prices. Now, ...

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 ...

When news broke that US-based Roomba vacuum cleaner maker iRobot filed for bankruptcy protection and would be acquired by a Chinese company, certain US media outlets were quick to drum up concerns ...

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iRobot's Roomba was once the biggest name in robot vacuums – so big that some still use it as a synonym for the whole product category. So what happened to the company to cause it to fall from its ...

(Yicai) Dec. 18 -- Picea Robotics plans to develop the iRobot brand in China and abroad after acquiring the bankrupt US maker of Roomba robot vacuum cleaners, an official at the Chinese contract ...