The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Robot vacuums remove pet hair, lint and dust from the floor before they can settle. They can also avoid stairs and other obstacles such as furniture that is tippy.
Most robotic vacuums require regular maintenance. This involves emptying the bin (and sometimes rinsing it) and wiping the sensors and cameras. They also require to be plugged in. A lot of them have apps for smartphones for scheduling, adjusting settings, and more.
iRobot Roomba 960
The iRobot Roomba 980, the most recent in a line of top-of-the-line robot vacuums, is an essential for every modern home. This model comes with a HEPA filter that can aid those suffering from allergies. It also comes with an extremely powerful battery that can be cleaned for up to two hours and returns to its dock automatically when the bin is full.
Smart mapping is a different feature that helps it identify areas in your home that require attention and creates an easy path to get around them. We've seen this technology in action and it does a good job of moving around toys abandoned on the floor, or furniture legs that stick out from under things. It also has a camera sensor that can snap the Roomba back to reality when it starts drifting from its intended location.
iRobot also added an additional set of rollers beneath the Roomba that don't have bristles which makes them more likely to resist tangles than previous models. They're also taller than previous rollers, and will fit better under beds and couches that are low, and they're designed to allow this model to move more easily across a variety of floor types.
The Roomba 980 is distinguished from other high-end models due to its latest dirt detection feature that makes use of a camera in order to identify dirt that has been embedded. This is a nice improvement over the previous model, which relied on a sensor-driven pseudorandom cover method to bounce around a room and clean at least three times from different angles.
In our tests of its performance in our tests of its performance, the Roomba 980 did well on carpets and hard flooring. Its score on low pile carpet was impressive, and it got a very high score on mid pile too. It did a good job collecting pet hair, however it struggled with the thick and long pet hair that was stuck together.
Despite these minor shortcomings, the Roomba 980 remains one of our most efficient robots, and isn't even close to being as expensive as the other top models on this list. It comes with many of the features we would expect from a flagship model but does not have all the fancy apps and smart home integrations you'll find in other top contenders.
The iRobot Roomba is easy to set up and start working immediately. After taking off the yellow bin insert and battery pull tab from its undercarriage you simply plug it into an outlet on the wall or to its Home Base docking stations, hit the "Clean button" and let it work. robot vacuum cleaner will return to docking station when it is running out of battery or is full of debris. There are also indicators on top that show the bin is empty, or when it needs to recharge, or when it loses Wi-Fi.