Robot just declared chapter 11 bankruptcy. And though it’s being bought out, it’s hard to tell what that means for Roomba owners.

The best-known manufacturer of autonomous vacuums declared bankruptcy this week, and no one should be surprised.

Roomba maker iRobot has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, but says that it doesn’t expect any disruptions to devices as the more than 30-year-old company is taken private under a restructuring process.

Robot , the maker of the Roomba vacuum cleaner, filed for bankruptcy protection on Sunday, saying that it would go private after being bought by Picea Robotics, its primary manufacturer.

While iRobot is selling itself off as scrap, let's remember what actually makes a good robovac.

What went wrong was, in a sense, the same as what went right. iRobot created a market for self-piloting Dustbusters. The first Roombas, priced at $200 in 2002, were included that year in festive media lists of gadget present ideas alongside Apple’s iPod and DVD burners from Sony.

While investors are busy pouring billions of dollars into humanoid robots, an MIT roboticist who has been making robots for three decades claims they are wasting their money. Rodney Brooks, the cofounder of Roomba vacuum creator iRobot,