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Amazon this morning announced plans to acquire Roomba Maker I-Robot for 1.7 billion dollars in an all-cash deal.

Colin Engel will remain as I-Robot CEO, quoting Tech Crunch.

The home robotics firm best known for pioneering the robotic vacuum was founded in 1990 by

MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab members Colin Engel, Rodney Brooks, and Helen

Grenier.

Twelve years after its founding, the company introduced the Roomba, a brand that has since become

synonymous with the branding selling more than

30 million units as of 2020. Brooks and Grannyer have gone on to

found and lead several other companies while Engel has remained on board as CEO, a position he will maintain post acquisition.

Amazon II has been aggressively tackling the robotics space in the decade since it acquired Kiva Systems,

though the Amazon robotics division is focused solely on its

warehouse fulfillment play. More recently, the company has made small steps into the home with

the launch of Astro, a cheery bot that lacks the Roomba's single focus.

Amazon and IRobot have actually had an increasingly close partnership over the past several years

through Roomba's embrace of Alexa functionality and use of AWS servers.

Angle 2 has often spoken about Roomba and home robotics generally as a kind of connective

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