# Kinematic Risk Consumer Bulletin **LRRK Watch / Open-Source Intelligence** — Consumer systems that sense, move, and act in homes and yards. **Issue type.** Monthly filing. | Field | Value | | --- | --- | | Collection cutoff | 28 February 2021 | | Window | 1–28 February 2021 | | Data label | Open-source intelligence // LRRK analytic product // retrospective monthly filing | | Handling | Public-source material. Image rights require separate verification before publication. Retrospective reconstruction from contemporaneous public records. | | Scope | Consumer kinematic electronics only (home, yard, companion, educational). | | Classes in frame | Robot vacuums / mop combos · robotic lawn mowers · window-cleaning robots · pool-cleaning robots · robot pets / companion animals · social / desk companions · educational / programmable kits · robotic litter boxes · security / home patrol robots · consumer robotic arms · elder-care / assistive companions · kitchen / food-prep robots · toy / entertainment robots · niche outdoor / garden robots · emerging general-purpose or humanoid home robots | | Spine | CPSC, Health Canada, EU Safety Gate, UK OPSS, manufacturer recall pages, named newsrooms, dockets, SEC. | | Color | Message boards, consumer forums, and Reddit — annotated context only. Never Fact without a reputable primary. | ## Executive read ### BLUF iRobot’s 16 February 10-K put Terra, the company’s robotic mower, on hold “for the foreseeable future” and left the Clean Base Canada dock recall as the only official consumer-robot safety file still live. No new CPSC, Health Canada, OPSS, or Safety Gate consumer-robot action was found this month. ### Key judgments 1. **[Assessment — High confidence]** Terra is not a 2021 yard-robot deployment. The 10-K is the in-window primary that the 2020 suspension remains in force. 2. **[Assessment — High confidence]** Health Canada RA-74597 remains posted and un-updated. Still no CPSC twin. 3. **[Inference — Moderate confidence]** A software-over-hardware shift at the category leader leaves the yard-blade problem to incumbents (Husqvarna and peers) whose charging-pattern file has not yet been made public. ### Analytic labels - **Fact** — verified reporting or primary record - **Assessment** — analytic judgment - **Inference** — reasoned but not directly observed - **Uncertainty** — unresolved information gap ### Source grades - **A1** — authoritative primary record / directly confirmed - **B1–B2** — generally reliable and corroborated - **C3** — useful but requires caution (typical for forums) --- ## 01. iRobot 10-K: Terra stays on the shelf *Event / publication dates: Form 10-K filed 16 February 2021, period ended 2 January 2021* **Product class.** Robotic lawn mowers (undeployed) **Verified record — [Fact — A1]** “As part of our efforts to control costs, accelerate certain strategic initiatives and further shift research and development engineering talent from hardware to software, we suspended go-to-market plans for our Terra robot mower during 2020. … this specific initiative is expected to remain on hold for the foreseeable future.” The same filing restates the 28 January 2021 ITC / D. Mass. SharkNinja complaints (five additional robot-vac patents) and the pending 2019 D. Mass. case. [SEC 10-K](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1159167/000115916721000008/irbt-20210102.htm). The 10-K does not name the Clean Base recall. **Threat landscape.** Absence of a US-brand robotic mower from the category leader is not a safety finding. It is a deployment fact: the yard-blade and charging-dock risks stay with the European incumbents. **Forum / community notes.** - none found. **Intelligence assessment.** [Assessment — High confidence] Terra is not shipping this year on the company’s own words. [Uncertainty] Whether any Terra hardware remains in beta homes is unpublished. **Opportunity.** A later 10-Q that restarts or kills Terra by name. **LRRK relevance.** Campaign (portfolio choice). Watch: Terra trademark still listed; no product. **Confidence.** High on the hold sentence. Low on leftover beta units. --- ## 02. Clean Base still live *Event / publication dates: Health Canada RA-74597 posted 21 December 2020; still posted, last updated 21 December 2020* **Product class.** Robot vacuums / mop combos (dock electrical) **Verified record — [Fact — A1]** Same file as January: liquid ingested by a Roomba i7+ can short the Clean Base PCB; “does not involve the Roomba i7 vacuum itself”; no Canada incidents or injuries as of 8 December 2020; 11,971 Canada units; free fused cord or replacement dock. [Health Canada](https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/irobot-clean-base-roombar-i7-robot-vacuum-recalled-due-electrical-hazard). No CPSC page found. No February update to the as-of line. **Threat landscape.** Unchanged. Official silence after 8 December 2020 is not a clearance. **Forum / community notes.** - none found. **Intelligence assessment.** [Assessment — High confidence] Still the only official North American consumer-robot electrical action at cutoff. **Opportunity.** A dated incident update or a CPSC twin. **LRRK relevance.** Lab / Watch: RA-74597. **Confidence.** High on the page. Low on post-December incidents. --- ## Forward indicators 1. Any restart or formal kill of Terra in a later SEC filing. 2. Clean Base uptake and any post-8 December 2020 incident line. 3. First 2021 official consumer-robot recall. 4. JetBot 90 AI+ US ship. 5. ITC SharkNinja. > **Collection integrity.** Honest signal count this month: **2**. No new official consumer-robot recall was found for February 2021. Killed: ANSI/OPEI 60335-2-107-2019 as a 2021 event (no February adoption/enforcement item); any claim that Terra launched; “1 million Braava jet 2021 CPSC recall” (no such page; later iRobot CSR will say no Roomba/Braava product recalls in 2020–H1 2022). Forum empty. The 10-K HTML was opened. *LRRK — security assurance for systems that sense, move, and act.*

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