IROBOT, creator Roomba and company, which primarily popularized robot vacuums, informed investors on Wednesday that he has “significant doubts about (her) ability to continue.”
In addition to reducing sales, the company said that the revenue decreased by 47 percent in the United States during the previous year in its fourth quarter – IBOT is also trying his best to repay its debts. Company took a loan to a bridge of 200 million US dollars stay afloat while he was waiting for him 1.7 billion dollars of transaction with Amazon To be approved that is still paying off.
A The European Commission is ultimately investigated Acquisition in 2023, and not solve your problems, Amazon He stopped the deal And he paid his payment for termination of $ 94 million. However, this was not enough to eliminate the problems of the IROBOT. Currently, the company plans to consider its options and see if it can find another way to determine them, including “refinancing the company's debt and studying a potential sale or strategic transaction”.
Time is especially regrettable, given the line of new robot vacuums IROBOT recently announcedThe company has a new robot for most prices, but a VAC Poomba 105 series of robots, which should have 70 times more absorption than past models, as well as Combo Robot Brobot Bootba Plus 505 Dock, which is able to better clean the corners and has a dock that washed and loses the mop of the robot, distinguishes as noticeable improvements. The company also accepts Lidar sensors in all areas, which was absent from previous robots and should provide more accurate mapping.
Perhaps new products help IROBOT in the best place financially – the company Still makes robots that we recommendIn the end – but this does not change the fact that he is faced with tough competition from companies such as Roborock And DreamWhich both become much more entrepreneurial to what their vacuums of their robot can actually make them.