Mistakes that robot vacuum owners must try to avoid include foregoing maintenance, using the wrong cleaning agents, and ignoring firmware updates.

The company behind the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner entered a pre-packaged bankruptcy process and lined up its Chinese ...

Roombas are handy tools for many households, especially when used with a smart device. Many Roomba robot vacuums can connect to Wi-Fi, allowing you to control them with the iRobot HOME app on your ...

Over the last few weeks, iRobot has added Matter support to more of its Roomba robot vacuums, allowing them to be integrated with the Home app and used with Siri voice commands. Matter integration has ...

Users on Reddit report that the latest Roomba firmware update expands compatibility with the Matter smart home protocol, which in practice also enables HomeKit compatibility via Apple’s Home app on ...

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 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 ...

(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, the maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday, saying that it would go private after being bought by Picea Robotics, its primary manufacturer. The company, ...

Roomba maker iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy Sunday and will turn over its business to a pair of Chinese companies and go private, capping a years-long fall from grace. The Massachusetts-based ...

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