Irobot Files For Bankruptcy

After 35 years, nan shaper of nan Roomba robot vacuum revenge for bankruptcy protection precocious Sunday night. Following issuing warnings earlier this twelvemonth that it was accelerated moving retired of options, iRobot announced it will participate Chapter 11 protection and plans to beryllium acquired by its statement manufacturer, nan Chinese-based Picea Robotic.

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

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