Our experts at the Good Housekeeping Institute share their favorite home robots for tackling chores around the house.

The company behind the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner entered a pre-packaged bankruptcy process and lined up its Chinese contract manufacturer, Picea Robotics, as a buyer. But that hasn’t stopped perhaps ...

Roombas are handy tools for many households, especially when used with a smart device. Many Roomba robot vacuums can connect to Wi-Fi, allowing you to control them with the iRobot HOME app on your ...

Liam Thompson builds his cat a Roomba-powered chariot and witnesses feline engineering in action.

Nearly twenty-three years ago, iRobot Corp. was in trouble. Its Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, after an initial burst of popularity, were gathering dust in warehouses during the crucial 2003 holiday ...

Over the last few weeks, iRobot has added Matter support to more of its Roomba robot vacuums, allowing them to be integrated with the Home app and used with Siri voice commands. Matter integration has ...

Users on Reddit report that the latest Roomba firmware update expands compatibility with the Matter smart home protocol, which in practice also enables HomeKit compatibility via Apple’s Home app on ...

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 ...

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Roomba once looked like the future. Its maker, iRobot, filled American homes with small but affordable robots that helped keep households clean and cats endlessly occupied. But iRobot has now filed ...

The home-vacuum robot began, like most things, with war. In August 1990, the same month and year Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, three MIT roboticists incorporated the company that would eventually ...

iRobot, the maker of the popular Roomba vacuum cleaner, filed for bankruptcy protection on Dec. 14, saying it would go private after being purchased by its Chinese manufacturer. In a news release on ...