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Industry shifts, company strategy, original research and market observations from across the global cleaning industry.
After the FCC Robot Ban, What Paths Remain for Chinese Robot Vacuums and Mowers?
Fifteen companies have FCC approval for foreign-produced robots, and none is Chinese. What that reveals, and where a way through could come from.
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DJI ROMO 2: Close to the Leaders on Product, Still Far on Price
DJI's second robot vacuum fixes the first ROMO's threshold problem and adds a swinging mop arm and 36,000 Pa suction. Price, not product, now limits its reach.
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Camsense: From TV Motion Control to Ten Million Robot LiDAR Units a Year
Founder Zhou Kun moved from television vision systems into robot vacuum navigation. Millions of sensor shipments brought new cost pressures.
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Dual-Wash Stations: The Cleaning Industry's Next Major Category?
Roborock and Midea are combining laundry appliances with robot vacuums. Denny You sees a larger opportunity in affordable systems, small homes and a new specialist brand.
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IFA 2026 Cleaning Product Roundup: What Each Company Brought
A company-by-company roundup of cleaning, pool and garden products at IFA 2026, with commentary on new launches, existing models, prototypes and 2027 previews.
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From Ecovacs X5 Hybrid to Dreame TriForm: Is This Floorcare's Next Product Direction?
Denny You assesses transformable cleaning robots: the appeal of a lower combined purchase price, infrequent manual use, and the compromises of adding a handle.
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America’s Robot Restrictions Have Reached Vacuums and Lawn Mowers
The FCC’s new Covered List rules reach foreign-made robot vacuums, robotic lawn mowers and commercial mobile robots, while existing models and pool robots occupy a different position.
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How a Chinese Manufacturer Is Rebuilding Roomba
After Picea took control of iRobot, Roomba entered floor washers with Electro Plus. The product reveals both the logic and limits of its attempted revival.
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Cleaning Industry Roundup, June 20, 2026: The Industry Is Getting Wider
Eight recent cleaning industry moves show how robot vacuums, cleaning appliances, yard robots, pool systems, commercial cleaning robots, capital markets, and Chinese supply chains are starting to converge.
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The Trillion-Yuan Cleaning Industry Hidden in Anker’s Prospectus
Anker’s H-share prospectus shows how cleaning robots are becoming part of a much larger smart cleaning market, with global scale potentially approaching RMB 1 trillion over the next decade.
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