Robot pets with AI could soon live with you

iRobot cofounder Colin Angle unveils Familiar, a pet-inspired emotionally aware home robot designed to learn your routines and support healthier habits.
VentureBeat

Sweeping changes: How iRobot evolved from military robots to autonomous vacuums

Baby steps iRobot has its roots at MIT, where Angle studied as an undergraduate. In 1990, he founded iRobot with two partners: Australian roboticist and MIT professor Rodney Brooks, who's credited ...
New Atlas

Review: Roomba's Plus 505 robot vacuum combo, now on sale

Faced with a deluge of Chinese competitors, debt issues and the collapse of a sale to Amazon, American home robotics company iRobot is in some trouble at the moment at the corporate level, and all ...
UPI

Roomba maker iRobot to merge with 2 Chinese companies

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, ...
Benzinga.com

iRobot Founder Blames Chinese Competition For Roomba Bankruptcy As Picea Robotics Set To Take Over US Household Robotics Icon

Angle, who co-founded iRobot in 1990 at MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, said on The New York Times' Hard Fork podcast that Chinese competitors had access to a domestic market iRobot could not ...
Ars Technica

iRobot says there is “substantial doubt” about it as a “going concern”

Robotics firm iRobot, originator of the robotic vacuum Roomba facing stiff competition from lower-priced competitors, told investors Tuesday that there was “substantial doubt” about the ...