iRobot · working robot
Roomba i7+
Seventh-generation Roomba with room-by-room maps and a self-emptying dock.
- 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
Introduced iRobot's Clean Base, which empties the robot's bin automatically.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
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)
- 1 news story from reputable press listed on this page
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What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Wheeled base
- How it runs
- Fully autonomous. It vacuums rooms on a schedule by itself and empties its bin into the dock.
- Sensors & vision
- Camera-based vSLAM navigation (iAdapt 3.0), bumper, cliff sensors, forward obstacle sensors, acoustic dirt detection
- Battery & power
- Self-docking; i7+ Clean Base empties the bin automatically (up to about 30 runs per bag, maker claim)
- AI & software
- Saved maps with room selection in the iRobot Home app
Lineage
Every iRobot machine in order.
Watch Roomba i7+
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
- Sold or delivered
- Retired; succeeded by the j7
- Where it is sold or used
- Contract-manufactured; Shenzhen Picea Robotics was iRobot's primary contract manufacturer by 2025
News
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- iRobot files for Chapter 11
Roomba maker iRobot entered Chapter 11 under a plan for its contract manufacturer Shenzhen Picea Robotics to take control.
The Register
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 i7+iRobot |  BotvacNeato RoboticsSame job: home floor vacuuming · Both on wheels · Both past robots |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2018-09-06 | 2014 |
| Status | Discontinued | Discontinued |
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Sources
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