Branded is a weekly column devoted to the intersection of marketing, business, design, and culture. Just a few years ago, iRobot, best known as the maker of the Roomba, was riding high, with annual ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. This would have been a very different article to read had you stopped by any time before March 2025. Before then, iRobot and Shark ...

Adapted from Dancing With Roomba, written by Joe Jones, who was iRobot’s first full-time employee and the original designer of the Roomba robot vacuum. After developing a prototype robot that was ...

Choosing between a Shark and Roomba robot vacuum isn't easy. CNET experts have put together a guide to help you make the right choice. Stephen J. Bronner is a New York-based freelance writer, editor ...

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 the ...

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, ...