iRobot 公司于 1990 年由麻省理工大學(xué)人工智能實(shí)驗(yàn)室的三位機(jī)器人科學(xué)家創(chuàng)立，現(xiàn)已成為的一家大型家用機(jī)器人企業(yè)。公司總部位于美國馬薩諸塞州的貝德福德，作為一家成功將掃地機(jī)器人推向大眾的公司，iRobot 在美國、日本、德國等眾多成熟市場(chǎng)的銷量位居榜首。隨著中國逐漸成長為全球大型的掃地機(jī)器人市場(chǎng)，iRobot 也在不斷加大對(duì)中國的投資。2016 年，iRobot 成立了上海分公司負(fù)責(zé)中國的銷售和營銷業(yè)務(wù)，以力求更好地聆聽中國消費(fèi)者的聲音、更好地服務(wù)中國消費(fèi)者。iRobot was founded by MIT roboticists in 1990 and is now the leading global consumer robot company.The company’s headquarters are located in Bedford, Massachusetts, USA. As the first company to bringrobotic vacuum cleaners to the masses, and the market leader in many mature markets, such as TheUnited States, Japan and Germany, iRobot is ramping up its investments in China as it is poised to become the world’s largest robot vacuum market. To be closer to the consumer in this high lycompetitive market, iRobot opened a sales& marketing office in Shanghai in 2016.