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Roomba maker iRobot is getting sold to a Chinese company, and will be taken private.

Surely the precisely-mapped indoor layouts of millions of US homes (complete with occupants’ names and street addresses) will remain private and in US hands, right?

Right?

#roomba #irobot #privacy

https://apnews.com/article/irobot-roomba-bankruptcy-picea-amazon-7ef311c0b3848af2b30ba3921496efe1

AP News

Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy protection; will be taken private under restructuring

Roomba maker iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but says that it doesn’t expect any disruptions to devices as the more than 30-year-old company is taken private under a restructuring process. iRobot said that it is being acquired by Picea through a court-supervised process.

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@informapirata@mastodon.uno · last month

iRobot, il produttore di #Roomba dichiara bancarotta

#iRobot Corp., l'azienda che ha rivoluzionato gli aspirapolvere robot nei primi anni 2000 con il modello Roomba, ha dichiarato bancarotta e ha proposto di cedere il controllo al suo principale fornitore cinese

https://news.bloomberglaw.com/bankruptcy-law/robot-vacuum-roomba-maker-files-for-bankruptcy-after-35-years

@informatica