Amazon he confirmed it will buy iRobotmanufacturer of the popular Roomba robotic vacuum cleaners, for 1,700 million dollars, that’s the amount will pay in cash, by paying $61 for each of his shares. Amazon has not yet revealed the company’s integration plans in its structure, although it has been confirmed to be current iRobot CEO Colin Anglewill continue in his position. Amazon already has a team of robots based in California and offers a variety of household products.

iRobot was born in 1990 by a group of members of the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory: its current CEO Colin Angle, Rodney Brooks and Helen Greiner. Twelve years later they introduced roomba, so popular that it is the name by which any robot vacuum cleaner for the home is generally identified. iRobot is therefore one of the pioneering companies in the home robot sector. Currently, Angle is the only one of its founders in the company. Roomba has been compatible with Alexa since 2017.

Angle pointed to an operation that, since they founded iRobot, his team «is on a mission to create practical and innovative products that make life easier for customers, achieving inventions such as Roomba and iRobot OS. Amazon shares our passion for developing innovations that enable people to do more at home, and I can’t think of a better place for our team to continue their mission.«.

from his side Dave Limp, Vice President of Amazon Devicesremembered that «We know that saving time matters, and housework takes up valuable time that customers can spend doing something they love. Over the years, the iRobot team has proven its ability to reinvent how people clean with products that are incredibly practical and ingenious, from cleaning when and where customers want, avoiding common household obstacles, to emptying automatic bins that collect dirt.«.