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Kayla Mederos adored her Roomba. She named it “WALL-E,” after Pixar’s trash-smashing space robot, and set it loose to collect the fur her yellow Labrador shed inside her Northern California home. When ...

Over the last few weeks, iRobot has added Matter support to more of its Roomba robot vacuums, allowing them to be integrated with the Home app and used with Siri voice commands. Matter integration has ...

The smart home niche has introduced many technologies that can help you with basic or complex household chores, and that's what iRobot has been all about. However, as much as the Roomba came to take ...

Users on Reddit report that the latest Roomba firmware update expands compatibility with the Matter smart home protocol, which in practice also enables HomeKit compatibility via Apple’s Home app on ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. Once you buy a robot vacuum, like Roomba, you mentally tick the "sweeping and mopping my floors" chore off your list forever. Things take a ...

new video loaded: Former Roomba C.E.O. Reminisces on 2008’s Viral ‘Shark Cat’ Meme transcript In conversation with Kevin Roose and Casey Newton on the “Hard Fork” podcast, the former Roomba C.E.O.

To join the CNBC Technology Executive Council, go to cnbccouncils.com/tec The bankruptcy of robot vacuum Roomba maker iRobot represents a relatively small but high ...

Few know Roomba wasn’t the original robot vacuum. The Swedish company Electrolux beat Roomba by one year when it brought the amusingly named Trilobite to market in 2001. It’s a surprise fact because ...

The home-vacuum robot began, like most things, with war. In August 1990, the same month and year Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, three MIT roboticists incorporated the company that would eventually ...

Roomba once looked like the future. Its maker, iRobot, filled American homes with small but affordable robots that helped keep households clean and cats endlessly occupied. But iRobot has now filed ...

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