The iRobot Roomba was, if you ignore one expensive and trilobite-shaped forebear, the first robot vacuum. And for a long time after its 2002 introduction, it was also the best one. But its star eventually faded sometime in the early 2020s, and after a failed attempt in 2024, after two years of trying, to sell itself to Amazon, iRobot filed for bankruptcy. In January of this year, it was finally acquired by Picea Robotics, a Chinese robot vacuum manufacturer with partners such as Anker, Xiaomi, and Shark. The company wasted little time getting new robot vacuums to market after that.
Earlier this year, iRobot launched the $1,000 Roomba Max 775…
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