I was perfectly content with our hand-me-down Eureka vacuum cleaner. But at some point, my gadget-guy husband became fixated on iRobot’s Roomba floor vac. No doubt his interest centered on its robotic ...

Last year's Hollywood blockbuster I, Robot painted a picture of a not-too-distant future full of robots that efficiently and proficiently performed mundane daily chores such as cooking, cleaning, and ...

Michael Kanellos is editor at large at CNET News.com, where he covers hardware, research and development, start-ups and the tech industry overseas. The Roomba robotic vacuum cleaner has a new mission: ...

Pop quiz: can you think of a round, computer-driven device that has four buttons, is not made by Apple, and ought to be in every household by the end of the decade? In case you don’t pay much ...

HAPPY SATURDAY, everyone. Today we will revisit the topic of robotic vacuum cleaners. This time, the readers have done the writing, in response to my recent column asking for opinions on the vacuums.

Roomba – a self-navigating vacuum cleaner with wheels for feet, infrared sensors for eyes, and a flair for picking up dog hair – is the most successful consumer-market robot in history. Its maker, ...

Since the initial release of the iRobot's Roomba, users have found creative ways to mod and repurpose the vacuum-cleaning robot. From drunken Roomba frogger to Roomba wiimote control hacks, people ...