The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner

cheap robot vacuum vacuums remove pet hair, lint, and dust off floors before they can settle. They can also avoid obstacles such as furniture that is unstable and staircases.

The majority of 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 connected. A lot of them have apps for smartphones for scheduling, adjusting settings, and more.

Roomba 960 from iRobot

The iRobot Roomba 980, the latest in a series of top-of the-line robot vacuums, is a must for every modern home. This model is equipped with a HEPA-filter to help those who are allergic. It also comes with an extremely powerful battery that can clean for two hours before returning to its dock automatically when the bin is full.

It also comes with the feature of smart mapping, which makes use of multiple sensors to suss out the areas in your home that require attention and create a cleaning route around them. We've seen this technology in action and it does a great job of moving around toys that are placed on the floor or furniture legs that stick out from under the furniture. It also has a camera sensor that can snap the Roomba back to the real world when it begins to drift from its intended location.

iRobot has also introduced a new set of rollers underneath the Roomba's bottom, which don't have bristles and, therefore, tend to be more resistant to tangles than previous models. The rollers are also larger and can be placed under low couches or beds. They're designed to make this model more adaptable to different floor types.

The Roomba 980 is distinguished from other models of high-end quality by its new dirt detection feature that makes use of a camera in order to identify dirt that has been embedded. This is a significant improvement over the previous version which relied on a sensor-driven pseudorandom coverage method to bounce around a room and clean it at minimum three times from various angles.

The Roomba 980 performed well in our tests on carpets and hard floors. It scored very well on carpets with low pile and on mid-pile. It did a great job collecting pet hair, however it struggled with the thick and long pet hair that was stuck together.

The Roomba 980 is still one of the top performing robots in our list despite the minor drawbacks. It's also not as expensive as other top-of the-line models. It's still packed with a variety of features we'd expect to see in a top-of-the-line model, but it doesn't have all the fancy apps or smart home integration that you'll find in other top models.

The iRobot Roomba is easy to set up and start running right away. After you have removed the pull tab for the battery and yellow bin insert from the undercarriage, all that you need to do is plug it into its Home Base docking station or an outlet on the wall, press its large "Clean" button and let it go to work. It will return to its dock when its battery is out or it's full of debris, and it also has indicators at the top to indicate when the bin is full, it requires recharging or its Wi-Fi signal is lost.