iRobot Is Realizing Its Vision for Truly Smart Homes

Around this time last year, iRobot (NASDAQ: IRBT) announced plans to expand the mapping functionality of its Roomba robotic vacuums to include Wi-Fi-strength maps. iRobot founder and CEO Colin Angle outlined a vision at the time for taking smart homes to the next level by positioning Roomba -- with its growing spatial awareness of any given building -- as a sort of "unifying intelligence" to tie together various smart-home devices.

Indeed, the latest Roombas can already build detailed room-delineated maps of your home, and even work together with its Braava floor-mopping robots to more effectively finish their respective tasks. And thanks to integrations with the most popular voice assistants, they can even respond to room-specific voice commands such as, "Alexa, tell Roomba to clean the kitchen."

Now, however, iRobot is taking the next logical steps toward enabling truly smart homes.

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