Brooks and Greiner went on to found and lead several other companies, while Angle stayed on as CEO—a position he will retain after the acquisition. iRobot CEO Colin Angle Image Credits: (Photo by Paul Marotta/Getty Images for TechCrunch) However, the company has struggled to recapture the Roomba’s success — but not for lack of trying. He has experimented with many different robot services at home, from cleaning gutters and pools to mopping floors and mowing the lawn. The latest arrived in the form of Terra, which has been placed on indefinite hold during the pandemic. This news came in April 2020, alongside the announcement that the company had laid off 70 employees, making up about 5% of its global workforce. The company spun off its military contracting arm in 2016 as Endeavor, which was acquired by FLIR Systems in early 2019. A year before that, iRobot launched its telepresence robotics startup, Ava. iRobot has also made its own acquisitions, buying connected air cleaning company Aeris late last year in an effort to diversify its presence in the home.
