Published on: 2025-05-22 07:30:36
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . If you’re looking for a budget-friendly robot vacuum that can handle both vacuuming and mopping, iRobot’s Roomba Combo Essential just hit its lowest price ever. Thanks to the Amazon Spring Sale, it’s down to $149 from $275, matching the lowest price we’ve seen. It previously dipped to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-26 07:01:26
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . iRobot’s Roomba Combo Essential machine, which is a robot vacuum and mop in one, is down to only $149 as part of the Amazon Spring Sale. Normally priced at $275, this is the best discount we've seen on the 2-in-1 robot, matching the sale price we saw during the holiday shopping season
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 10:36:46
In the robot vacuum world, there’s Roomba and there’s everybody else. iRobot’s autonomous cleaner may not have been the very first of its kind, but it was the first one most people knew about, and for many years it was clearly the best one you could buy. But now, more than three decades after iRobot started building its futuristic bots, both the product and the company appear to be in big trouble. After that, we chat with Kobo CEO Michael Tamblyn about the state of e-readers. Michael has been w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-31 14:30:58
Engadget has been testing and reviewing consumer tech since 2004. Our stories may include affiliate links; if you buy something through a link, we may earn a commission. Read more about how we evaluate products . If you’re looking for a budget-friendly robot vacuum that can handle both vacuuming and mopping, iRobot’s Roomba Combo Essential just hit its lowest price ever. Thanks to the Amazon Spring Sale, it’s down to $150 from $275, matching the lowest price we’ve seen. It previously dipped to
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 14:30:00
When I saw iRobot’s latest robot vacuums announced this week, my first thought was, “These don’t look like Roombas; they look like midrange models from Roborock, Ecovacs, and Dreame.” Of course, as the original robot vacuum manufacturer, iRobot’s products likely inspired the design of most of its competitors. But Roombas have always had a uniqueness that sets them apart from the crowd. With these new models, the company is capitulating to the homogeneity of the current crop of vacuums, sacrific
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-15 18:14:00
Roomba-maker iRobot has added four new lidar-equipped robot vacuum models to its 2025 lineup, bringing premium features to a more reasonable price. They include the Roomba 205 DustCompactor, the "world's first" robovac equipped with a compacting bin, which mechanically compresses dust and debris to save space in the dock. Imagine it as being similar to the trash compactors in a garbage truck. "The net benefit to the consumer is you are going to get 60 days of hands-free maintenance without the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-18 02:54:00
The big picture: iRobot, best known for its Roomba brand of robotic vacuum cleaners and floor mops, was a pioneer in the early days of home autonomy. For a while, the Roomba name itself became synonymous with robotic vacuums and many erroneously thought it was actually the company's name. Now, iRobot has warned investors that it might not survive the next 12 months as it continues to explore the possibility of a sale or a strategic partnership. iRobot's success spawned a whole new industry, and
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 18:20:10
Roomba vacuums by iRobot are displayed at Best Buy store on January 19, 2024 in San Rafael, California. Shares of iRobot plunged more than 30% on Wednesday after it said there's "substantial doubt" about its ability to stay in business. The Roomba-maker's financial outlook has darkened since Amazon abandoned its planned $1.7 billion acquisition of the company in January 2024, citing regulatory scrutiny. Since then, iRobot has struggled to generate cash and pay off debts. Massachusetts-based i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-19 18:17:47
iRobot, the creator of the Roomba and the company that popularized robot vacuums in the first place, told investors on Wednesday that it has "substantial doubt about [its] ability to continue." Beyond declining sales — the company reported that revenue decreased 47 percent in the US over the prior year in its fourth quarter earnings — iRobot is also struggling to pay off its debts. The company took on a $200 million bridge loan to stay afloat while it waited for its $1.7 billion acquisition dea
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 02:39:20
Beth Mauder/ZDNET iRobot was long overdue for a product redesign to win back its once overwhelming share of the robot vacuum market. The company just announced such a reinvention for its complete product line; it turns out this was a Hail Mary move to get its head out of the muck. iRobot's latest SEC filings paint a grim financial landscape for the company's next 12 months. In them, we read that iRobot, maker of Roomba robot vacuums, is in significant financial trouble, as evidenced by heavy d
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 05:59:52
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 company's survival "as a going concern" in the next year or so. Investors took iRobot at its word, and its stock price had fallen nearly 40 percent as of 10:20 am Wednesday from the day before. The dire accounting language and market reaction are nothing new for tech firms, but iRobot's annual report suggests de
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-20 11:00:08
iRobot’s stock fell nearly 40% early Wednesday after the maker of robot vacuums told investors that it has “substantial doubt about the company’s ability to continue.” Sales were down 44% in the last quarter over the year prior, though the company hopes a slew of new Roombas introduced this week will help stem the decline. Roomba is synonymous with robot vacuums, having first introduced the product back in 2002. But today, the market is saturated with comparable products from companies like Rob
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 22:01:40
Jonathan Feist / Android Authority You know how some brands have super confusing product naming strategies? iRobot’s line of Roomba robot vacuums will be much easier to understand from today onward. The company will be focusing on three main product classes, with easy to understand indicators for which machines vacuum your floors, and which include mopping functionality. Better yet, the new line of bots launching today include premium features from the base model and up. If you’ve been conside
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 22:01:17
iRobot has been known as a robot vacuum standard since its launch over 20 years ago. Today the company announced a complete redesign of almost its entire product line, with new entry-level, midrange, and high-end robot vacuums. Almost every model features an AutoEmpty Dock and mopping variant to round out the Roomba catalog. The new Roombas include the 105 model and 105 Combo starting at $299, the Roomba 205 DustCompactor and a Combo variant starting at $449, the Plus 405 Combo Robot and AutoWa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 22:01:03
Roomba-maker iRobot has added four new lidar-equipped robot vacuum models to its 2025 lineup, bringing premium features to a more reasonable price. They include the Roomba 205 DustCompactor, the "world's first" robovac equipped with a compacting bin, which mechanically compresses dust and debris to save space in the dock. Imagine it as being similar to the trash compactors in a garbage truck. "The net benefit to the consumer is you are going to get 60 days of hands-free maintenance without the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-06-21 22:01:00
This week, the company that invented the robot vacuum over 20 years ago announced eight new models that are definitely not the Roombas you’re used to. Not only do they look totally different, but they also work differently, thanks to a new-to-Roomba feature: lidar navigation and mapping. iRobot has started publishing suction power specs for its robots The new lineup starts at $299 and goes up to $999. It features the entry-level 105 series of vacuums and vacuum mops with the option of an auto-
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