“If iRobot collapses, we may be looking at one of the largest and most impactful smart-gadget screw overs of all time.”
– Tech journalist
Tom Nardi, on the seemingly
imminent bankruptcy of Roomba manufacturer iRobot, which has sold 50 million units worldwide. Optimistically, he notes that the hacker community is poised to keep the robo-vacuums running through reverse engineering—and predicts a secondhand market “flooded with discounted robots, ripe for the picking.”