
Fresh off dumping its electric vehicles project, Apple appears to be pivoting to something fairly different: household robots.

Amazon abandoned its $1.4 billion acquisition of Roomba maker, iRobot, on Monday after regulators in the European Union threatened to block the deal.
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Following Amazon’s deal to buy iRobot—the company that put Roomba on the map—for $1.7 billion, the European Union is gearing up to investigate the purchase. Not only will regulators look into the details of the acquisition, but they’re also likely to go over privacy concerns.