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Company

iRobot

Customers
Amazon [1]
Founded
1990 [2] [3] [1]
Headquarters
Bedford, Massachusetts [3] [4] sources disagree
latest_round
$200M (July 2023) [5]
Partners
Scale AI [6]
Partners
Amazon [1]
Website
https://www.irobot.com/ [2]

Robots

Timeline

  1. A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook? (2022) Hacker News
  2. iRobot Founder Wants to Put a Robotic Familiar Into Your Home IEEE Spectrum
  3. Looking back at iRobot’s diversification attempts through the years The Robot Report
  4. Robotics in review: Editors look back at 2025 The Robot Report
  5. ‘It felt so wrong’: Colin Angle on iRobot, the FTC, and the Amazon deal that never was TechCrunch
  6. From Roombas to e-bikes, why are hardware startups going bankrupt? TechCrunch
  7. iRobot’s Cofounder Weighs In on Company’s Bankruptcy IEEE Spectrum
  8. How Roomba Got Its Vacuum IEEE Spectrum
  9. Expanding robot perception to give a more human-like awareness of their environment TechXplore
  10. Watch this robot vacuum pick up your dirty socks at CES 2025 TechCrunch
  11. iRobot lays off another 105 employees The Robot Report
  12. SwitchBot S10 Review​: “This Is the Future of Home Robots” IEEE Spectrum
  13. Meet Tennibot, the tennis ball Roomba TechCrunch
  14. Rodney Brooks’s Three Laws of Robotics IEEE Spectrum
  15. iRobot’s Autowash Dock Is (Almost) Automated Floor Care IEEE Spectrum
  16. iRobot’s new CEO on cleanup duty after Amazon deal fails The Robot Report
  17. iRobot names former Timex head Gary Cohen as CEO TechCrunch
  18. Large language models can help home robots recover from errors without human help TechCrunch
  19. Hello is building a platform toward more home robots TechCrunch
  20. These 30 robotics companies are hiring TechCrunch
  21. Amazon’s Acquisition of iRobot Falls Through IEEE Spectrum
  22. Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what? TechCrunch
  23. iRobot and Amazon call it quits, terminate acquisition agreement TechCrunch
  24. Amazon’s iRobot deal could be blocked by European Union TechCrunch
  25. Creating Domestic Robots That Really Help IEEE Spectrum
  26. Newest Roomba Aims for Convenience IEEE Spectrum
  27. iRobot launches a $1,399 premium Roomba combo vacuum/mop and dock TechCrunch
  28. Amazon lowers iRobot purchase price by 15% amid regulatory delays TechCrunch
  29. This week in robotics: Amazon’s iRobot deal hits an EU snag as new funding keeps hot drone summer rolling TechCrunch
  30. EU’s competition unit takes a deeper look at Amazon’s iRobot acquisition TechCrunch
  31. Neato Robotics is being shut down after 18 years TechCrunch
  32. Helen Greiner: Solar Powered Robotic Weeding | Sense Think Act Podcast #16 Robohub
  33. iRobot Education expands its free coding platform with social-emotional learning, multi-language support Robohub

References

  1. techcrunch.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    The retailer has long been iRobot’s biggest customer, at times accounting for more than a quarter of sales.
  2. wikidata.org — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  3. irobot.com — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  4. therobotreport.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    While iRobot is best known for the Roomba, in its over 35 years of operation so far, the Bedford, Mass.-based company has developed a range of other robots.
  5. techcrunch.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    iRobot announced that it was raising $200 million to continue operations after the initial deal was expected to close.
  6. technologyreview.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    They were then sent to Scale AI, a startup that contracts workers around the world to label audio, photo, and video data used to train artificial intelligence.