iRobot files for bankruptcy

After 35 years, the shaper of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy extortion precocious Sunday night. Following issuing warnings earlier this twelvemonth that it was accelerated moving retired of options, iRobot announced it volition participate Chapter 11 extortion and plans to beryllium acquired by its declaration manufacturer, the Chinese-based Picea Robotics.

The institution says it volition proceed to run "with nary anticipated disruption to its app functionality, lawsuit programs, planetary partners, proviso concatenation relationships, oregon ongoing merchandise support." This should mean that, at slightest for now, your Roomba volition proceed cleaning your floors conscionable arsenic it did before.

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