The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner

Robot vacuums sweep pet hair, dust and lint from floors before it can settle. They also can avoid obstacles like stairs and other obstructions, including tippy furniture.

The majority of robotic vacuums require maintenance, such as emptying (and occasionally rinsing) the bin, and wiping cameras and sensors. Also, they have to be plugged into a power source. Many come with smartphone apps for scheduling, setting up settings, and more.

Roomba 980 from iRobot

The iRobot Roomba 980, the latest in a series of top-of the-line robot vacuums, is an essential for any modern home. This model is extremely powerful suction as well as a HEPA filter that will aid anyone who is concerned about allergies. It also comes with a large battery that can clean for two hours before returning to its dock automatically once the bin is full.

It also has the feature of smart mapping which uses multiple sensors to help suss out the areas of your home that need attention and make a tidy path around them. We've seen this technology in action and it does a good job of moving around toys that have been abandoned on the floor or furniture legs that stick out from under things. It also has a sensor that will snap Roomba to its real-world location if it begins to drift away from its initial location.

iRobot has also included the option of rolling rollers under the Roomba which do not have bristles, and are therefore more likely to withstand the tangles that previous models. The rollers are also larger and can fit under low couches or beds. They're designed to make the model more adaptable to different kinds of floors.

What sets the Roomba 980 apart from other models of this class Its main feature is the inclusion of a new dirt detection feature that uses cameras to detect bits of embedded dirt. This is a significant improvement over the previous version which relied on the best robot mop use of a sensor-driven pseudorandom cover to bounce around the room and scrub the area three times, at different angles.

The Roomba 980 performed well in our tests on carpets and hard floors. Its score on the low pile carpet was excellent and it got a very good score on mid pile, too. It did a good job picking up pet hair but struggled with long and thick pet hair that was stuck together.

The Roomba 980 is still one of the best robot vacuum and mop for tile floors best robot vacuum and mop for tile floors vacuum and mop for laminate floors - just click the next document - performing robots on our list, despite these minor limitations. It's also not as expensive as top-of-the-line models. It's still packed with a variety of features that we'd expect to see in a flagship model, but it doesn't have all the fancy app-enabled functions or smart home integration that you might find in other top models.

The iRobot Roomba can be set up quickly and is ready to use as soon as you are ready to. After removing the pull tab for the battery and the yellow bin insert from undercarriage, all you have to connect it to its Home Base docking station or a wall socket, press its big "Clean" button, and let it go to work. It will automatically return to its dock when the battery runs out or it's full of debris. It also has indicators at the top for when its bin is full or it needs to be recharged or its Wi-Fi signal is not working.