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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 ...

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 ...

iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware Firm struggles with lower-priced rivals, US tariffs iRobot to be bought by primary manufacturer Picea Robotics Dec 14 (Reuters) - iRobot ...

Roomba is being bought by Picea as part of a bankruptcy process. The company, which manufactures iRobot vacuums, made the move after facing financial challenges in the past few years. Roomba maker ...

Roomba maker iRobot has filed for bankruptcy — and customers are worried that their pricey vacuums could stop working. The 35-year-old, publicly held company will be taken over by its Chinese supplier ...

(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 ...

iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over control to its main Chinese supplier. The ...

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 ...

The writing has long been on the wall, but finally, the maker of the synonymous Roomba vacuum, iRobot Corporation, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a "strategic transaction" intended to secure ...

Dec. 15 (UPI) --Picea Robotics and its partner entered into a buyout deal with Roomba producer iRobot via court-supervised bankruptcy proceedings. iRobot, the maker of the Roomba floor vacuum, ...