With a retail price of $375, the iRobot Roomba 690 Robot Vacuum is the most affordable Roomba out there that has strong suction and support for Amazon’s beloved voice assistant, Alexa. That’s right, ...

The Roomba 960 got a big $250 discount on Amazon for Black Friday and Cyber Monday, and it ended up being the second best-selling product we covered during the big shopping blitz. If you missed out, ...

A Roomba makes vacuuming a lot easier, but you still need to press buttons or tap the screen on your smartphone. Don’t you wish you could just tell your Roomba to start or stop cleaning? If you ...

iRobot is upgrading the Alexa support in its latest Roomba robot vacuums and Braava robot mops, building on existing voice control with task-specific commands and hunches. The new features allow ...

Roomba owners have been able to control their vacuums with Alexa voice commands since 2017, but that experience is pretty basic. You can tell your robot vacuum to start and stop cleaning, or to set up ...

Six-year-old Brennan Kelly loves peppering his family’s Alexa device with questions. “What’s the strongest Pokemon?’” “What noise does a frog make?” and “Can you play ‘Watermelon Sugar’ by Harry ...

iRobot and Amazon jointly announced several new interactions between the iRobot Genius Home Intelligence and Alexa platforms that will let users control their Roomba and Braava units in new ways. The ...

How should humans treat robots, specifically artificial intelligence? This is what a team of researchers hope to answer as they conducted a psychological analysis between children ages four to eleven ...

With AI already a big part of everyday life and its involvement only bound to increase, researchers have turned to four- to 11-year-olds to ask how they think we should treat intelligent technology.

Most kids know it's wrong to yell or hit someone, but what if that someone is a robot named Alexa? A new study asked kids how smart and sensitive they thought the virtual assistant was compared to a ...