iRobot · working robot
Roomba 980
Sixth-generation Roomba that builds a map of the home with a camera and connects to an app.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- —Not published
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
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Why it matters
iRobot's first Roomba with camera-based mapping (vSLAM), cleaning in rows instead of randomly.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Timeline
- Released
- 2015-09
Maker
iRobotCompany · founded 1990 · Bedford, Massachusetts, United StatesAmazon's US$1.7B takeover was abandoned in January 2024; Chapter 11 filed 14 December 2025
Public attention
A historic robot: no longer sold or in use, so it is not ranked against current machines.
- 6,764 views of its Wikipedia article in the last 90 days (Roomba)
- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It built a visual map while independently cleaning a home, returning to recharge and resume until cleaning was finished.
- Sensors & vision
- Upward-facing camera for visual SLAM (iAdapt 2.0) and downward infrared floor-tracking sensor
- AI & software
- iAdapt 2.0 vSLAM navigation; iRobot HOME app over Wi-Fi; later Amazon Echo integration
Lineage
Every iRobot machine in order.
Watch Roomba 980
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every robot: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | Roomba 980iRobot |  BotvacNeato RoboticsSame job: home floor vacuuming · Both on wheels · Both past robots |  XV-11Neato RoboticsSame job: home floor vacuuming · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2015-09-16 | 2014 | 2010 |
| Status | Discontinued | Discontinued | Discontinued |
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| Price | — | — | $400 |
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