Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast it dives into a different sector of the stock market every day.

I'm your host, Fitz and Shen, and joining me today via Skype is Senior Motley Full Contributor,

Ossit-Charma.

Hey, Ossit, thanks for helping on.

Thanks so much, Vince. Happy to be here, as always.

So as a reminder to anyone who has missed my previous announcements,

this is the last show I pre-recorded before seeing my goodbyes to the industry-focused team.

So some 200 episodes captured in this studio, I've said it before, I'll say it again.

Thank you for being a part of this journey.

I said, I'm glad we're going to wrap up 2018 with a company that I personally think is building something

special and that company is I-Robot-I-R-B-T.

So it's been well over a year since our last update on the company in that time the stock declined as much as 40% before returning to positive territory.

For 2018, at least as of this recording, IRobot is up 10% year-to-date topping the flat performance for the S&P 500.

So we're not going to rehash the entire business description, but I said for fools who don't

know this company are only vaguely familiar with its consumer robots.

Really quick, what's the story here?

I robot is the manufacturer of the very popular Rumba device which is a vacuuming device.

It also makes a mopping device called the Brava.

The company is a

pioneer to have hands-free experience and have your house vacuumed.

Along the way, it's developed a lot of credentials

in data mapping.

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