iRobot Corporation holds three MA-L blocks — AC:F4:73, 50:14:79, and 4C:B9:EA — all registered to "iRobot Corporation" at 8 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA, US 01730. These OUIs surface on home networks as Wi-Fi-connected consumer robots: the Roomba robot-vacuum line, the Braava jet robot-mop line, and vacuum/mop combo units, all cloud-managed through the iRobot HOME app over 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi (with Bluetooth used for setup). For network triage, an iRobot OUI on a residential or small-office LAN is almost always a robot vacuum or mop checking in to iRobot's AWS-hosted cloud backend, and on a corporate network it is a shadow-IT / unmanaged-IoT signal. Defenders commonly see these endpoints generating periodic cloud check-in traffic; the privacy-relevant data they push to the cloud (floor maps, cleaning schedules, device identifiers, and on camera-equipped models object-recognition imagery) is the more substantive concern than the radio footprint itself. A data-quality caution for anyone matching by name: the "Unirobot Corporation" (MA-M, 14:4F:D7:A0:00:00/28, Japan) and "AIROBOT OÜ" (MA-S, 70:B3:D5:1D:30:00/36, Estonia) registry rows are unrelated companies and are NOT iRobot.
- IEEE assignment
- 3 prefixes → iRobot Corporation, registered Bedford, MA, US [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv), https://maclookup.app/vendors/irobot-corporation
- Registry / block size
- MA-L (24-bit OUI); 3 blocks [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv). NOTE: IEEE's public OUI registries publish NO assignment/registration date (the CSV columns are only Registry, Assignment, Organization Name, Organization Address); any "date registered" on third-party tools is a database artifact, not an IEEE fact.
- HQ / country
- 8 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA, US 01730 (registry address) [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv)
- Company status
- active [Likely] — https://www.irobot.com (corporate site live; single-angle, no independent registry-status check performed)
- Device types
- Wi-Fi/Bluetooth consumer robots — robot vacuums (Roomba), robot mops (Braava jet), vacuum/mop combos; cloud-managed via the iRobot HOME app [Confirmed] — https://www.irobot.com, https://www.netify.ai/resources/macs/brands/irobot
- Notable products
- Roomba robot vacuums, Braava jet robot mops
- Verified prefixes (all MA-L, iRobot Corporation)
- AC:F4:73, 50:14:79, 4C:B9:EA [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-L (enrichment/registries/oui.csv)
- Registration dates
- Unknown — IEEE publishes none. Third-party databases show artifact values (50:14:79 → 2017-11-12; 4C:B9:EA → 2021-07-21; AC:F4:73 → 2024-10-14) but these are database-ingestion artifacts, NOT IEEE facts, and are not presented as registration dates here. [Confirmed that no IEEE date exists] — https://maclookup.app/vendors/irobot-corporation
- Security context
- iRobot devices are Wi-Fi IoT endpoints. Local device-to-app traffic uses TLS 1.2; the Roomba j7/j7+ is certified against the ETSI EN 303 645 consumer-IoT baseline (and TÜV SÜD's CSC scheme); iRobot runs a private bug-bounty program. Primary risk area is cloud data aggregation (floor maps, object-recognition images, schedules, device IDs, Wi-Fi SSIDs uploaded to an AWS IoT backend); a 2023 incident involved test-unit camera images surfacing on social media (iRobot attributed these to paid-tester units). No published CVEs were found in open search. [Likely] — single-angle (W1) synthesis; https://www.iot-tests.org/2019/02/irobot-roomba-980-put-to-the-test/, https://www.tuvsud.com/en-us/resource-centre/stories/helping-irobot-achieve-internet-of-things-cybersecurity, https://www.mozillafoundation.org/en/privacynotincluded/irobot-roombas/, https://aws.amazon.com/solutions/case-studies/irobot-iot/
- IANA reference
- none — no IANA RFC governs iRobot MAC allocations [Confirmed]
- Data-quality note
- "Unirobot Corporation" (MA-M 14:4F:D7:A0:00:00/28, Japan) and "AIROBOT OÜ" (MA-S 70:B3:D5:1D:30:00/36, Estonia) are distinct, unrelated entities — NOT iRobot. [Confirmed] — IEEE MA-M (enrichment/registries/mam.csv), IEEE MA-S (enrichment/registries/oui36.csv)
- Related vendors
- none registered separately (Aeris air purifiers noted as a secondary product line)
- Analyst note
- An iRobot OUI = a Wi-Fi robot vacuum or mop calling home to iRobot's AWS cloud; a shadow-IT / unmanaged-IoT signal on corporate networks. OUI alone identifies the brand but not the model — confirm via the cloud check-in traffic pattern.