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, ...

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 ...

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec The bankruptcy of robot vacuum Roomba maker iRobot represents a relatively small but high ...

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 ...

iRobot, which brought robotic vacuum cleaners to the masses with its iconic Roomba models, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Massachusetts-based company plans to sell all assets to its primary ...

FILE - A Roomba 980 vacuum cleaning robot is presented during a presentation in Tokyo, on Sept. 29, 2015. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File) (Eugene Hoshiko, Copyright ...

(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 ...

Positions iRobot to continue delivering trusted robotics and smart home devices to consumers worldwide BEDFORD, Mass., Dec. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- iRobot Corporation (IRBT) ("iRobot" or the "Company ...

The U.S. company that put robot vacuums into American homes has hit the skids. The maker of Roomba, called iRobot, has filed for bankruptcy about two years after its failed merger with Amazon. The ...

iRobot's Roomba empire, once a symbol of American ingenuity, has crumbled under $264 million in debt, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on December 14, 2025, in Delaware. With just 274 employees left ...

Roomba maker iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but says that it doesn’t expect any disruptions to devices as the more than 30-year-old company is taken private under a ...