The BestReviews Testing Lab knows you can get a Roomba going without using the app, and it’s as simple as pushing a button.

To connect your Roomba to Wi-Fi, you need to download the iRobot HOME app onto your smartphone. The HOME app is iRobot’s control center for its Roomba vacuums and Braava mops and is available for iOS ...

The iRobot Roomba Plus 405 is a combination mopping-and-vacuuming robot with a self-emptying, self-washing dock. It’s positioned as a midrange model for consumers who want an all-in-one robot vacuum ...

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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 ...

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 ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. For many, iRobot’s Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in ...

(Bloomberg/Reshmi Basu and Dorothy Ma) — iRobot Corp., the company that revolutionized robot vacuum cleaners in the early 2000s with its Roomba model, filed for bankruptcy and proposed handing over ...

The writing has long been on the wall, but finally, the maker of the synonymous Roomba vacuum, iRobot Corporation, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as a "strategic transaction" intended to secure ...

We'll never know how Roomba maker iRobot would have fared under Amazon leadership, as the proposed purchase fell through a few years ago after European regulators blocked the deal. What's certain is ...

Months after warning investors that the clock was ticking, iRobot has officially pulled the Chapter 11 lever. The company behind the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner has entered a pre-packaged bankruptcy ...