While iRobot’s high-end robot vacuums like the s9 and j7 series are regarded widely as some of the best in the industry, the company’s mid-range offering doesn’t have the same stellar reputation ...

December 13, 2007 Known for an array of intelligent machines from home helpers to military aides, iRobot has just announced an upgrade to its PackBot with the addition of a Mapping Kit. They new ...

With features like smart house mapping and voice assistant control, iRobot's Roomba i7 is among the best robotic vacuums you can get. As a relatively high-end device, however, it normally commands a ...

The Genius 4.0 update brings smart-mapping capabilities to the Roomba i3 Series and new object recognition abilities to the Roomba j7 Series, among other fresh features. I'm PCMag's managing editor ...

Neato Robotic’s Botvac is no longer the only robot vacuum cleaner capable of mapping the rooms it’s assigned to clean. iRobot’s new Roomba 980 can now accomplish the same feat, albeit in a slightly ...

iRobot’s Roomba series is easily among the most well-known names in the vacuum world. While the Roomba 980 debuted nearly 2 years ago, it still tends to outperform many of the newest robot vacuums in ...

As some robot vacuums suck up dirt and hair off your floors, they also use a combination of software and hardware to create a map of the room, allowing for more efficient cleaning. The technology ...

iRobot, the maker of Roomba vacuums, wants to sell mapping data from inside your home to Amazon, Apple, or Google, for the next frontier -- the smart home. Speaking to Reuters, CEO Colin Angle said ...

iRobot CEO Colin Angle has been repeating for some time now that the next step in the evolution of the company’s hit Roomba vacuum is becoming a connective tissue for the smart home. This morning’s ...

iRobot CEO Colin Angle today told Reuters that he hopes indoor mapping data collected by Roomba automatic vacuum cleaning machines can be sold to a company like Amazon, Apple, or Google in the near ...

A week ago Reuters published an interview with Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot, the company that makes Roomba robot vacuum cleaners. Some of the Roomba models use a camera to create spatial maps of the ...