Key Highlights
- Ownership has been transferred to its Chinese manufacturing partner, Picea.
- User data will be maintained by a US-controlled spin-off called iRobot Safe.
- Even trailblazers sometimes get left behind, and years after iRobot brought robotic vacuums into the mainstream with its Roomba series, tough financial times forced the company to declare bankruptcy.
- Back in December, we learned that iRobot was being acquired by its main manufacturing partner, a company called Picea out of China.
- If you were at all concerned about what that transition meant for you and your data, iRobot has some updates to share that you’re going to want to know about.
