Scooba Blog

Stephen Manes from Forbes reviewed the Scooba, available here

I added a smattering of cat litter, some New Year’s confetti and a splotch of Cap Jempol Chili Sauce to the existing grime on the bathroom floor tile……It’s [Scoobba] too wide to make it behind my toilet and too tall to get all the way under […]

iRobot Corp set it’s IPO at 4.3M common shares at an estimated price of between $21 and $23 a share. About 3.26 million shares will be available to the public, and 1.04 million shares will be sold by some shareholders.
Sounds like our favorite little company is growing Hopefully they put a […]

Looks like iRobot is about to start a large scale advertising campaign titled “I Love Robots” - good time to showcase their Roomba and Scooba before the Christmas frenzy hits.
From BusinessWire.com:

For the Roomba commercial, real owners were selected from thousands of iRobot customers who responded to a company survey. The nine Roomba owners featured […]

Just found an article about on bizJornals talking about iRobot’s win against a Roomba copycat.
Some background on the case:
In March, Canada-based Urus and Koolatron began selling a “smart” vacuum under the Koolvac brand. IRobot sued in May for an undetermined amount of monetary damages, terming Koolvac “a complete knock-off” of Roomba.
And the result:
IRobot […]

FORTUNE Small Business has named iRobot’s CEO, Colin Angle, as the best CEO of 2005.
From TMCnet:

Angle and 14 other entrepreneurs were named 2005 Best Bosses based on their vision, creativity, focus, great people skills and the ability to get the best out of their employees.
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Angle was recognized for creatively hiring and managing top […]

Looks like our favorite company, iRobot, will be going public soon:
From Reuters
iRobot Corp., the maker of the Roomba floor vacuuming robot and PackBot tactical military robots, filed with regulators on Wednesday to raise up to $115 million in an initial public offering of common stock.
The company plans to use the net proceeds from the IPO […]

CNet has posted an interview with Colin Angle, CEO of our favorite company. Not much is mentioned about Scooba, but it’s still an interesting read.
Here’s one interesting tidbit from the Interview:
“The Roomba has a serial port, and we’ll be announcing an API of sorts for it, so that you could create accessories […]