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Amazon’s $1.4B iRobot deal is dead. Now what?
A year and a half after announcing its intention to acquire iRobot, Amazon’s deal is officially dead. All parties involved anticipated some level of
This morning’s news also finds iRobot laying off 350 people – amounting the nearly one-third of its total headcount — as long-time CEO Colin Angle steps down. “The termination of the agreement with Amazon is disappointing, but iRobot now turns toward the future with a focus and commitment to continue building thoughtful robots and intelligent home innovations that make life better, and that our customers around the world love.” It’s had a slow start that may stretch out even longer, but soon enough we’ll be seeing key breakthroughs in AI, navigation and mobile manipulation that will engender a new crop of capable home robots.
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