Once hailed as the "father" of robotic vacuum cleaners, iRobot, the manufacturer of Roomba, filed for bankruptcy protection in a U.S. court on Sunday (December 14).

The company will be privatized after being acquired by its main manufacturer, Picea Robotics, based in Shenzhen, China.

Founded in 1990, this consumer robotics company launched its first robotic vacuum in 2002 and went public on NASDAQ in 2005. However, the company turned from profit to loss in 2022, with a net loss of $286.3 million #巨鲸动向 $ETH .