How Elizabeth Warren Destroyed an American Technology Company

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Almost exactly two years ago I wrote about Senator Elizabeth Warren’s heroic quest to destroy Amazon’s acquisition of iRobot.

You might be familiar with iRobot; they are the maker of the robotic “Roomba” vacuum cleaner, and Amazon wanted to buy it for more than $1 billion.

Well, Lizzie Warren wasn’t having any of that. She wrote a hysterical letter to the Federal Trade Commission claiming the deal would “harm consumers,” as if we helpless little people would somehow suffer grievous bodily injury if Amazon bought a vacuum cleaner company.

She was terrified that Amazon might use the Roomba’s mapping technology to harvest consumer data— giving the company “eyes and ears” inside people’s homes.

Well duh. Of course Amazon was planning on doing that, just like they do with all sorts of other consumer devices.

But Amazon already has billions of Alexa-enabled appliances in homes across America. I’m not sure how Roomba would have been any different.

Personally I don’t use any of that stuff; I prefer my privacy. But I don’t think it should be up to Lizze Warren to decide what’s good or not good for American consumers.

But that didn’t matter. She blocked the deal, and Amazon walked away. NICE JOB LIZZIE!

That’s where our story ended when I first wrote about it two years ago… However things have recently become a lot more interesting.

Without Amazon’s deep pockets to support them, iRobot fell on hard times. So, thanks to Sen. Warren, iRobot had to lay off about one-third of its workforce.

The company then announced it would conserve cash by shifting “non-core engineering functions to lower-cost regions” overseas. But even outsourcing American jobs couldn’t save the company.

So, on December 14, 2025, after 35 years in business, iRobot filed for bankruptcy. And according to court records, it appears that the company will be taken over by a Chinese company called Picea.

Think about that: Elizabeth Warren killed the deal because she didn’t want Amazon— an American company— to own Roomba’s data on American households.

But instead it will be a CHINESE company who owns Roomba’s data on American households.

Remember, Roomba vacuums create a map of the insides of people’s homes. It knows the footprint of your house or your business. It knows where your bedroom is. It knows where your kids sleep. Where the walls are, the outlets, the furniture. It knows your home’s Wi-Fi network— the SSIDs, the connected devices. This thing roams freely through every room of your house.

The Roomba is a device you voluntarily connect to your home network. And unless you’re hardcore about network security, you’ve essentially invited a foreign-controlled device to sit on your network and wander around your house.

Is China all that interested in what’s going on inside the average American household? Maybe not. But one thing we’ve learned about the Chinese government is that, when it comes to data, more is always better. They vacuum up everything they can and figure out how to use it later.

They might not yet understand what kind of insights the data will give them, or how it might be weaponized, but Roomba represents yet another treasure trove of data on Americans.

CONGRATULATIONS LIZZIE WARREN. In your heroic efforts to “protect” American consumers from Amazon, you have destroyed people’s jobs… plus delivered the household data of tens of millions of Americas directly into the hands of the Chinese.

Perhaps even more absurd than this epic failure of protecting American data is that iRobot was headquartered in the picturesque town of Bedford… in Massachusetts.

Elizabeth Warren is a United States Senator… from Massachusetts.

This is how she chose to “represent” her constituents— by personally destroying a 35-year-old Massachusetts employer, wiping out hundreds of Massachusetts jobs, and delivering the entire company to China on a silver platter.

Forget espionage. Forget hacking. Forget the spy balloons. China just needs to wait for Elizabeth Warren to destroy another American company and gift-wrap it for Beijing. Xi Jinping must be in stitches.

Is it any wonder that the US economy can barely manage to grow at 2.5%?

America is on a horrendous fiscal trajectory. Averting disaster requires encouraging productivity, cutting red tape, and being friendly to both large and small businesses.

But we keep getting the opposite. People like Elizabeth Warren keep getting elected, and they keep making the country worse.

As long as that remains the standard, we should not expect a miraculous recovery of US finances, the US dollar, nor the US economy.

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