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The company which popularized robot vacuum cleaners around the world has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. iRobot, makers of the Roomba, has been synonymous with the category since its inception, but its star had dulled in recent years. The company plans to sell its assets to its primary supplier, China’s Picea Robotics, in the hope of maintaining its business. Everyone’s got a strident opinion as to why iRobot fell from grace. The rugged individualists blame limp regulators on both sides of the pond (and their hatred for big tech) for blocking Amazon’s attempted purchase in 2023. Those on the hardware side of the fence say iRobot’s refusal to embrace LiDAR for navigation until this year left it behind rivals. Then there’s the geopolitical experts, who can point at China’s industrial policy, subsidies and favorable regulatory environment compared to the US approach. After all, iRobot’s US gear is made in Vietnam, which is now subject to a 46 percent import levy. As BBC News

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iRobot, the company that brought robotic vacuum cleaners to homes and popular culture, has filed for bankruptcy. It plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, the Chinese company Picea Robotics. Investors “will experience a total loss and not receive recovery on their investment” if the deal is approved, iRobot said. The company didn’t discuss how the move might affect its employees in the US or elsewhere. Amazon dropped its $1.7 billion acquisition of the company last year after a veto threat from European regulators, leaving the Roomba maker with no other option. Political scrutiny came on two fronts: The company was also reportedly hit hard by Trump’s tariffs in Vietnam, where it manufactures products for the US market. iRobot launched its first Roomba in 2002, arguably inventing the world of robot vacuums — and the first robots to enter many of our homes. Competition from rivals has chipped away at its dominance, with other companies coming in at both lower and

Roomba maker iRobot goes bankrupt; now owned by former supplier Picea

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arXiv:2512.13460v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without sharing raw data, but model weight distortion remains a major challenge in resource constrained IoT networks. In multi tier Federated IoT (Fed-IoT) systems, unstable connectivity and adversarial interference can silently alter transmitted parameters, degrading convergence. We propose DP-EMAR, a differentially private, error model based autonomous repair framework that detects and reconstructs transmission induced distortions during FL aggregation. DP-EMAR estimates corruption patterns and applies adaptive correction before privacy noise is added, enabling reliable in network repair without violating confidentiality. By integrating Differential Privacy (DP) with Secure Aggregation (SA), the framework distinguishes DP noise from genuine transmission errors. Experiments on heterogeneous IoT sensor and graph datasets show that DP-EMAR preserves convergence stability and

arXiv:2512.13460v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Federated Learning (FL) enables decentralized model training without sharing raw data, but model weight distortion remains a major challenge in resource constrained IoT networks. In multi tier Federated IoT (Fed-IoT) systems, unstable connectivity and adversarial interference can silently alter transmitted parameters, degrading convergence. We propose DP-EMAR, a differentially private, error model based autonomous repair framework that detects and reconstructs transmission induced distortions during FL aggregation. DP-EMAR estimates corruption patterns and applies adaptive correction before privacy noise is added, enabling reliable in network repair without violating confidentiality. By integrating Differential Privacy (DP) with Secure Aggregation (SA), the framework distinguishes DP noise from genuine transmission errors. Experiments on heterogeneous IoT sensor and graph datasets show that DP-EMAR preserves convergence stability and

arXiv:2512.13340v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The use of lightweight machine learning (ML) models in internet of things (IoT) networks enables resource constrained IoT devices to perform on-device inference for several critical applications. However, the inference accuracy deteriorates due to the non-stationarity in the IoT environment and limited initial training data. To counteract this, the deployed models can be updated occasionally with new observed data samples. However, this approach consumes additional energy, which is undesirable for energy constrained IoT devices. This letter introduces an event-driven communication framework that strategically integrates continual learning (CL) in IoT networks for energy-efficient fault detection. Our framework enables the IoT device and the edge server (ES) to collaboratively update the lightweight ML model by adapting to the wireless link conditions for communication and the available energy budget. Evaluation on real-world datasets

arXiv:2512.12778v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: FPGA-based SmartNICs and IoT devices integrating soft-processors for network function execution have emerged to address the limited hardware reconfigurability of DPUs and MCUs. However, existing FPGA-based solutions lack a highly configurable many-core architecture specialized for network packet processing. This work presents VeBPF many-core architecture, a resource-optimized and highly configurable many-core architecture composed of custom VeBPF (Verilog eBPF) CPU cores designed for FPGA-based packet processing. The VeBPF cores are eBPF ISA compliant and implemented in Verilog HDL for seamless integration with existing FPGA IP blocks and subsystems. The proposed many-core architecture enables parallel execution of multiple eBPF rules across multiple VeBPF cores, achieving low-latency packet processing. The architecture is fully parameterizable, allowing the number of VeBPF cores and eBPF rules to scale according to application

Roomba maker iRobot set for buyout by manufacturer after filing for bankruptcy  Yahoo Finance UKWhat happens to Roombas now that the company has declared bankruptcy?  Los Angeles TimesRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York TimesHow Roomba invented the home robot — and lost the future  The VergeRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy protection; will be taken private under restructuring  ABC News

Roomba maker iRobot set for buyout by manufacturer after filing for bankruptcy  Yahoo Finance UKWhat happens to Roombas now that the company has declared bankruptcy?  Los Angeles TimesRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York TimesHow Roomba invented the home robot — and lost the future  The VergeRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy protection; will be taken private under restructuring  ABC News

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How Roomba invented the home robot — and lost the future  The VergeRobot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years  Bloomberg.comRoomba maker files for bankruptcy, weighed down by debt and tariffs  NPRRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy protection; will be taken private under restructuring  ABC NewsiRobot Announces Strategic Transaction to Drive Long-Term Growth Plan  PR Newswire

Major U.S. benchmarks finished Monday lower, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average edging down 0.09% to 48,416.56. read more

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Roomba Robot Vacuums Face a Shakeup as iRobot Files for Bankruptcy  CNETRoomba maker files for bankruptcy, weighed down by debt and tariffs  NPRiRobot Announces Strategic Transaction to Drive Long-Term Growth Plan  PR NewswireRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York TimesRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy protection; will be taken private under restructuring  ABC News

Biggest Loser Monday: iRobot Stock Collapses After Chapter 11 Filing  Yahoo FinanceRoomba maker files for bankruptcy, weighed down by debt and tariffs  NPRHow Roomba invented the home robot — and lost the future  The VergeiRobot Announces Strategic Transaction to Drive Long-Term Growth Plan  PR NewswireRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York Times

Biggest Loser Monday: iRobot Stock Collapses After Chapter 11 Filing  Yahoo FinanceRoomba maker files for bankruptcy, weighed down by debt and tariffs  NPRHow Roomba invented the home robot — and lost the future  The VergeiRobot Announces Strategic Transaction to Drive Long-Term Growth Plan  PR NewswireRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York Times

Roomba is way past code red. For many, iRobot's Roomba robot vacuum was their first experience with a home robot. When I got my Roomba in 2005, I felt like I was a step closer to my dream of living in a Jetsons-style home where a robot did my chores for me. It was expensive, around $300 for a small black disc on wheels that sucked up dirt, but its promise to do one of my most-hated chores while I was at work was compelling. The reality back then was that I spent more time babysitting it than it did actually cleaning my floors, but it was an exciting glimpse into the future of today's excellent robot vacuums. I wasn't alone in my excitement. Robot vacuums quickly became … Read the full story at The Verge.

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iRobot going bankrupt doesn't mean that Roombas will stop working, or that they'll stop selling Roombas. But the future is still iffy.

IRobot, which became well known for its robotic vacuums, has struggled of late, dealing with increased competition, layoffs and a declining stock price. The post Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy protection; will be taken private under restructuring appeared first on Boston.com.

iRobot Corporation (NASDAQ: IRBT) stock is getting hit on Monday after the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. read more

iRobot says it will continue to offer its robots and smart home devices​ to consumers.

While iRobot is selling itself off as scrap, let's remember what actually makes a good robovac.

Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11  theregister.comRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York TimesiRobot Files for Chapter 11 Amid Rising Competition and Tariff Pressures  Yahoo FinanceRoomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy  BBCiRobot, Tesla, ServiceNow, Texas Instruments, Newmont, Tilray, and More Market Movers  Barron's

Roomba maker iRobot gets cleaned out in Chapter 11  theregister.comRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York TimesiRobot Files for Chapter 11 Amid Rising Competition and Tariff Pressures  Yahoo FinanceRoomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy  BBCiRobot, Tesla, ServiceNow, Texas Instruments, Newmont, Tilray, and More Market Movers  Barron's

Shenzhen-based Picea Robotics, its lender and primary supplier, will acquire all of iRobot’s shares.

iRobot has filed for bankruptcy and may be taken over by its primary supplier  EngadgetRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York TimesiRobot Files for Chapter 11 Amid Rising Competition and Tariff Pressures  Yahoo FinanceRoomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy  BBCiRobot, Tesla, ServiceNow, Texas Instruments, Newmont, Tilray, and More Market Movers  Barron's

iRobot has filed for bankruptcy and may be taken over by its primary supplier  EngadgetRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York TimesiRobot Files for Chapter 11 Amid Rising Competition and Tariff Pressures  Yahoo FinanceRoomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy  BBCiRobot, Tesla, ServiceNow, Texas Instruments, Newmont, Tilray, and More Market Movers  Barron's

The company that pioneered the US robot vacuum market is no longer setting the pace in it. Here's what's to come.

Founded in 1990 by three M.I.T. researchers, iRobot introduced its vacuum in 2002. Its restructuring will turn the company over to its largest creditor.

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iRobot filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Sunday, ending its run as an independent public company. The

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Company vacuumed up by its own manufacturer iRobit, the company behind autonomous vacuum cleaner brand Roomba, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, telling investors that its Chinese manufacturer will assume control going forward.…

iRobot, the company which invented robot vacuum cleaners, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy some 23 years after it first launched the Roomba range. While such company failures can often be extremely bad news for owners of smart home technology, there is reason for optimism in this case … more…

Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout  CNBCAmazon Scrapped Its Deal to Buy iRobot. Now the Roomba Maker Is Filing for Bankruptcy.  Barron'sRoomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy  BBCWho is Picea Robotics, Roomba’s new owner?  The VergeRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York Times

Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout  CNBCAmazon Scrapped Its Deal to Buy iRobot. Now the Roomba Maker Is Filing for Bankruptcy.  Barron'sRoomba vacuum cleaner firm files for bankruptcy  BBCWho is Picea Robotics, Roomba’s new owner?  The VergeRoomba Maker iRobot Files for Bankruptcy, With Chinese Supplier Taking Control  The New York Times

iRobot has filed for bankruptcy, but promises there won't be any immediate changes for product owners.

It was back in March when iRobot warned investors that it might not survive the next 12 months. With revenue shrinking at a rapid pace, the company's shares, which had been worth $133 in 2021, fell to just $1.40 in November.Read Entire Article

U.S. stock futures are up early Monday morning, following a mixed week that saw rotation out of expensive tech stocks in favor of value. read more

iRobot, which brought robotic vacuum cleaners to the masses with its iconic Roomba models, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The Massachusetts-based company plans to sell all assets to its primary supplier, a Chinese company known as Picea Robotics. If approved by a bankruptcy court, the move would allow iRobot to "continue operating in the ordinary course, pursue its product development roadmap, and maintain its global footprint," iRobot wrote in a press release. The company expects the deal to close in February 2026, but says it will continue to operate "with no anticipated disruption to its app functionality, customer programs, global partners, supply chain relationships or ongoing product support." That means your Roomba should continue to clean normally and you'll be able to get consumables and replacement parts.  However, investors of common stock "will experience a total loss and not receive recovery on their investment" if

The robot vacuum company had been struggling for a while.

Chinese contract manufacturer Picea plans to acquire iRobot. Read more: Roomba maker iRobot goes bankrupt

iRobot files for bankruptcy  The VergeRoomba Maker Declares Bankruptcy, but Tries to Ease ‘Bricking’ Fears  The Wall Street JournalRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy  Financial TimesRobot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years  Bloomberg.comIRobot Commences Bankruptcy Process And Agrees To Acquisition By Picea  Nasdaq

iRobot files for bankruptcy  The VergeRoomba Maker Declares Bankruptcy, but Tries to Ease ‘Bricking’ Fears  The Wall Street JournalRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy  Financial TimesRobot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years  Bloomberg.comIRobot Commences Bankruptcy Process And Agrees To Acquisition By Picea  Nasdaq

After 35 years, the maker of the Roomba robot vacuum filed for bankruptcy protection late Sunday night. Following issuing warnings earlier this year that it was fast running out of options, iRobot announced it will enter Chapter 11 protection and plans to be acquired by its contract manufacturer, the Chinese-based Picea Robotics. The company says it will continue to operate "with no anticipated disruption to its app functionality, customer programs, global partners, supply chain relationships, or ongoing product support." This should mean that, at least for now, your Roomba will continue cleaning your floors just as it did before. The Mass … Read the full story at The Verge.

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Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years  Bloomberg.comRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout  ReutersRoomba Maker Declares Bankruptcy, but Tries to Ease ‘Bricking’ Fears  The Wall Street JournalIRobot Commences Bankruptcy Process And Agrees To Acquisition By Picea  NasdaqiRobot Announces Strategic Transaction to Drive Long-Term Growth Plan  PR Newswire

Robot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years  Bloomberg.comRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout  ReutersRoomba Maker Declares Bankruptcy, but Tries to Ease ‘Bricking’ Fears  The Wall Street JournalIRobot Commences Bankruptcy Process And Agrees To Acquisition By Picea  NasdaqiRobot Announces Strategic Transaction to Drive Long-Term Growth Plan  PR Newswire

Roomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout  ReutersRobot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years  Bloomberg.comiRobot Announces Strategic Transaction to Drive Long-Term Growth Plan  PR NewswireRoomba Maker Declares Bankruptcy, but Tries to Ease ‘Bricking’ Fears  The Wall Street JournalIRobot Commences Bankruptcy Process And Agrees To Acquisition By Picea  Nasdaq

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Connie Loizos / TechCrunch: A look at iRobot, founded in 1990, and its slow collapse after regulatory pressure killed Amazon's $1.7B acquisition in 2024, and the rising Chinese competition  —  There's something painfully American about the arc of iRobot, the company that taught your vacuum to navigate around the furniture.

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How iRobot lost its way home  TechCrunchRobot Vacuum Roomba Maker Files for Bankruptcy After 35 Years  Bloomberg.comiRobot Announces Strategic Transaction to Drive Long-Term Growth Plan  PR NewswireRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, pursues manufacturer buyout  ReutersRoomba maker iRobot files for bankruptcy, will go private  MarketWatch

Bloomberg: iRobot files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement to hand control to its secured lender and key supplier, Shenzhen Picea  —  iRobot Corp. filed for bankruptcy after reaching a restructuring support agreement that will hand control of the consumer robot maker …

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Bloomberg: Sources: ServiceNow is in advanced talks to buy Armis, which helps businesses secure and manage IoT devices, in a deal that may value Armis at as much as $7B  —  ServiceNow Inc. is in advanced talks to buy the cybersecurity startup Armis in a deal that may be valued at as much as $7 billion …

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If you have been in the smart home world for any length of time, you may have some older gear that doesn’t support Matter, such as older Zigbee sensors, Z-Wave thermostats, and IR remotes for ceiling fans, etc. They all work fine, but they live outside your HomeKit setup. That is why this new update from Homey caught my attention. They are rolling out a new Matter Bridge app for Homey Pro and Homey Pro mini, and it gives HomeKit users a way to pull a huge range of non-Matter accessories right into the Home app as if they were native devices. more…

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arXiv:2512.10426v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Healthcare has become exceptionally sophisticated, as wearables and connected medical devices are revolutionising remote patient monitoring, emergency response, medication management, diagnosis, and predictive and prescriptive analytics. Internet of Things and Cloud computing integrated systems (IoT-Cloud) facilitate sensing, automation, and processing for these healthcare applications. While real-time response is crucial for alleviating patient emergencies, protecting patient privacy is extremely important in data-driven healthcare. In this paper, we propose a multi-layer IoT, Edge and Cloud architecture to enhance the speed of response for emergency healthcare by distributing tasks based on response criticality and permanence of storage. Privacy of patient data is assured by proposing a Differential Privacy framework across several machine learning models such as K-means, Logistic Regression, Random Forest and Naive Bayes. We establish

arXiv:2512.10257v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: In smart-home voice assistant scenario, deciding whether to accept or reject a user query is the first step before any downstream processing. To address the limited query-rejection capability of current voice assistants, this paper presents the first Chinese-oriented open-source benchmark and evaluation suite for smart homes, together with a personalized query-rejection method based on large language models. On the data side, we construct the first multimodal query-rejection dataset tailored for domestic scenarios, containing 11,913 manually labeled text-speech pairs that systematically cover twelve typical dialogue types (e.g., chit-chat, non-human sounds, valid commands, ambiguous references, device-irrelevant requests). Fine-grained labels, conversational context and multi-turn information are provided to support both zero-shot and fine-tuning evaluations across language and multimodal large models. On the method side, we propose a

arXiv:2512.09934v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The growing presence of IoT devices in academic environments has increased operational complexity and exposed security weaknesses, especially in academic institutions without unified policies for registration, monitoring, and incident response involving IoT. This work presents IoTEdu, an integrated platform that combines access control, incident detection, and automatic blocking of IoT devices. The solution was evaluated in a controlled environment with simulated attacks, achieving an average time of 28.6 seconds between detection and blocking. The results show a reduction in manual intervention, standardization of responses, and unification of the processes of registration, monitoring, and incident response.

Jess Weatherbed / The Verge: AT&T launches Connected Life, a smart home security system with hardware from Google and Abode, designed to keep working during power or internet outages  —  Connected Life combines Nest and Abode devices with AT&T cellular backup to stay online during outages.

The carrier’s Connected Life platform, now available nationwide, lets AT&T customers easily set up a smart-home security system.

arXiv:2512.09313v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The continuous scaling of deep neural networks has fundamentally transformed machine learning, with larger models demonstrating improved performance across diverse tasks. This growth in model size has dramatically increased the computational resources required for the training process. Consequently, distributed approaches, such as Federated Learning and Split Learning, have become essential paradigms for scalable deployment. However, existing Split Learning approaches assume client homogeneity and uniform split points across all participants. This critically limits their applicability to real-world IoT systems where devices exhibit heterogeneity in computational resources. To address this limitation, this paper proposes Hetero-SplitEE, a novel method that enables heterogeneous IoT devices to train a shared deep neural network in parallel collaboratively. By integrating heterogeneous early exits into hierarchical training, our approach

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arXiv:2512.08885v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Industrial maintenance is being transformed by the Internet of Things and edge computing, generating continuous data streams that demand real-time, adaptive decision-making under limited computational resources. While data stream mining (DSM) addresses this challenge, most methods assume fully supervised settings, yet in practice, ground-truth labels are often delayed or unavailable. This paper presents a collaborative DSM framework that integrates unsupervised anomaly detection with interactive, human-in-the-loop learning to support maintenance decisions. We employ an online Isolation Forest and enhance interpretability using incremental Partial Dependence Plots and a feature importance score, derived from deviations of Individual Conditional Expectation curves from a fading average, enabling users to dynamically reassess feature relevance and adjust anomaly thresholds. We describe the real-time implementation and provide initial

arXiv:2512.08753v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Post-harvest losses due to subjective quality assessment cause significant damage to the economy and food safety, especially in countries like Bangladesh. To mitigate such damages, objective decision-making backed by scientific methods is necessary. An IoT-based, cost-effective quality monitoring system can provide a solution by going beyond subjective quality monitoring and decision-making practices. Here, we propose a low-power, cost-effective fruit quality monitoring system with an array of MQ gas sensors, which can be used as an electronic nose. We track the volatile gas emissions, specifically ethanol, methane, and ammonia, encompassing both ripening and decomposition for a set of bananas. Based on the gas concentration thresholds, we develop a mathematical model to accurately assess fruit quality. We also integrate this information into a dashboard for prompt decision-making and monitoring to make it useful to the farmers. This

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