 Amazon will not acquire Roomba Maker iRobot. After it became clear they weren't going to get approval from the EU. iRobot, as a result, will engage in another round of layoffs. This time they will be letting go 350 people, including CEO and Chair Colin Engel. Tech Crunch's Brian Heeter asked a pertinent question in his article about all this. Is the future of the home robot in jeopardy? I've been watching these things for a long time. This is one of those guilty pleasure gifts that I want to get from myself and just never pull the trigger because if I hire my cleaning lady, she comes out for 125 bucks. This thing is ridiculously expensive and I think that is the major problem because you would think if you want to drive adoption you need to get it into more households and to get it into more households you need to drive the price down, not up.