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An MIT roboticist who cofounded bankrupt robot vacuum maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robot assistants is ‘pure fantasy thinking’
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An MIT roboticist who cofounded bankrupt robot vacuum maker iRobot says Elon Musk’s vision of humanoid robot assistants is ‘pure fantasy thinking’
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezFebruary 25, 2026
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Innovation
‘It’s a cage match’: Beleaguered iRobot founder says the biggest reason why the Roomba-maker failed was because of growing Chinese competition
By Sasha RogelbergDecember 22, 2025
Roomba bites the dust: iRobot files for bankruptcy, but don’t worry—your robot vacuum should still work
Politics
Roomba bites the dust: iRobot files for bankruptcy, but don’t worry—your robot vacuum should still work
By Molly Liebergall and Morning BrewDecember 16, 2025
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in Abilene, Texas, on Sept. 23, 2025. (Photo: Kyle Grillot/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
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Amid talent war, OpenAI ends new hire vesting restriction
By Andrew NuscaDecember 15, 2025
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy in Sun Valley, Idaho, on July 9, 2025. (Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg/Getty Images)
Newsletters
Amazon will reportedly lay off 30,000 people
By Andrew NuscaOctober 28, 2025
Roomba creator iRobot was once courted by Amazon for a vacuum revolution. Now, it might go out of business
Tech
Roomba creator iRobot was once courted by Amazon for a vacuum revolution. Now, it might go out of business
By Irina IvanovaMarch 13, 2025
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan
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Meet Intel’s new CEO: Lip-Bu Tan
By Andrew NuscaMarch 13, 2025
The death of Amazon’s iRobot deal has knock-down effects, as the unicorn corporate exit appears to be defunct
Newsletters
The death of Amazon’s iRobot deal has knock-down effects, as the unicorn corporate exit appears to be defunct
By Allie GarfinkleJanuary 31, 2024
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy
Tech
Amazon’s failed iRobot deal is European regulators’ latest win in a yearslong campaign to stop Big Tech from getting bigger
By Paolo ConfinoJanuary 29, 2024
Amazon walking away from its $1.7 billion iRobot deal leaves the Roomba maker without its founding CEO and staring down a 31% staff cut
Tech
Amazon walking away from its $1.7 billion iRobot deal leaves the Roomba maker without its founding CEO and staring down a 31% staff cut
By Marco Quiroz-GutierrezJanuary 29, 2024
Colin Angle
Tech
Amazon scraps $1.7 billion deal to buy Roomba maker iRobot after EU antitrust resistance
By Kelvin Chan and The Associated PressJanuary 29, 2024
Amazon now is being probed by the EU over whether it’s killing competition in the robot vacuum cleaner market
Tech
Amazon now is being probed by the EU over whether it’s killing competition in the robot vacuum cleaner market
By Samuel Stolton and BloombergNovember 28, 2023
A man surrounded by computers with gambling programs
Newsletters
Twitch stars flexed their power to remove harmful gambling streams. Could more creator activism follow?
By Jacob CarpenterSeptember 21, 2022
Lina Khan
Politics
Weeks after Lina Khan’s FTC opens investigation of Amazon for One Medical deal, it probes acquisition of Roomba maker iRobot
By Haleluya Hadero and The Associated PressSeptember 21, 2022
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Could Washington bureaucrats save the EV industry’s tax credits from Congress’s tough anti-China stance?
By Jacob CarpenterAugust 9, 2022
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