The most recent short interest data has been released for the 01/31/2018 settlement date, which shows a 710,950 share decrease in total short interest for iRobot Corp (IRBT), to 5,758,344, a decrease of 10.99% since 01/12/2018. Total short interest is just one way to look at short data; another metric that we here at Dividend Channel find particularly useful is the "days to cover" metric because it considers both the total shares short and the average daily volume of shares traded..