Roomba is an automated vacuum cleaning robot first released in 2002. The deal is expected to draw antitrust scrutiny from the FTC. In August 2022, Amazon agreed to buy iRobot in an all-cash deal worth $1.7 billion. iRobot began selling Aeris-designed air purifiers through its own brand in 2022. In November 2021, iRobot announced that it had acquired Aeris Cleantec AG, a Swiss air purifier manufacturer. In February 2016, iRobot announced that it would sell its military robotics business to Arlington Capital Partners, in order to focus more on the consumer market. In addition to deployment as bomb-disposal units with the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan, PackBots have been used to gather data in dangerous conditions at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster site, and an iRobot Seaglider detected underwater pools of oil after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. ![]() IRobot has sold more than 30 million home robots, and has deployed more than 5,000 defense & security robots, as of 2020. On September 17, 2012, iRobot announced that it had acquired Evolution Robotics, manufacturer of automated floor mopper Mint.iRobot began being traded on the NASDAQ in November 2005, under ticker symbol IRBT.In September 2002, iRobot unveiled its home robots flagship, the Roomba, which sold a million units by 2004.In 1998, the company received a DARPA research contract which led to the development of the PackBot.IRobot was founded in 1990 by Rodney Brooks, Colin Angle, and Helen Greiner after working in MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab. This was not immediately forthcoming in September 2022, the FTC requested more data from both companies, amid concerns about Amazon's market power and the privacy implications of it gaining information about consumer floorplans. ![]() The deal is currently subject to federal approval from the FTC. On August 5, 2022, Amazon announced that it plans to acquire iRobot in a deal worth US$1.7 billion. The company's products include a range of autonomous home vacuum cleaners ( Roomba), floor moppers ( Braava), and other autonomous cleaning devices. ![]() It was founded in 1990 by three members of MIT's Artificial Intelligence Lab, who designed robots for space exploration and military defense. IRobot Corporation is an American technology company that designs and builds consumer robots.
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