The company behind Roomba Robovacs has been told to investors earlier this week that income is a huge profit and It is It is difficult to repay its debts. Amazon briefly tapped to get the Robot Company Iobot, but the threat of a investigation with the European Commission led to the retail ending in the deal – it seemed fun enough to pay for the $ 94 million finishing fee.
That, however, was not enough to deal with the $ 200 million loans that Iobot took to live long for Amazon to rescue. It was extremely rough when the company announced, the week before, a bunch of new models, including a new roomb that could be compact lips and dust, so it only needs to be empty every few weeks.
At the same time, rival robot vacuum cleaner gets more versatile, more Complex And more intriguing. CES this year had a standout barrage of new robovacs that could multitask and even Pack robot arm insideLike a thing from a cartoon.
But many of these devices have not yet launched diligently, while Iobot has been delivered solid floor cleaning For years. Hopefully, it can continue to run that.
– Mat Smith
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