Exhibit
(a)(1)(K)
Form of Email Update to Employees Regarding Offer to
Exchange
Subject: Important Update Option Exchange
Program
Date: May 11, 2009
The purpose of this communication is to inform you that iRobot
has decided to extend the deadline for tendering stock options
or withdrawing tendered stock options in its Option Exchange
Program from 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, on May 29, 2009
to 11:59 p.m., Eastern Time, on May 29,
2009. The amended Offer To Exchange Certain Outstanding
Stock Options For New Stock Options document incorporating this
change is available on the offer website, which can be accessed
at https://iRobot.equitybenefits.com. Additionally, an
amendment to the Tender Offer Statement on Schedule TO
incorporating this change has been filed with the Securities and
Exchange Commission (SEC) today along with all
related amended exhibits. You may obtain these written materials
free of charge from either the SECs website,
www.sec.gov, or by written request to iRobot Corporation
at 8 Crosby Drive, Bedford, MA 01730.
If you have any questions regarding this communication or the
Option Exchange Program, please contact Donna Rossi at
optionexchange@irobot.com.