How To Tell If You're Prepared For Irobot Vacuum

How To Tell If You're Prepared For Irobot Vacuum

The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner

Robot vacuums take pet hair, lint, and dust from the floor before they can settle. They also can avoid obstacles such as furniture that is slippery 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.  roomba robot vacuum  need to be connected. A lot of them have apps for smartphones to schedule, adjust settings and more.

Roomba 960 from iRobot

The iRobot Roomba 980, the most recent in a line of top-of the-line robot vacuums, is a must for any modern home. This model is extremely powerful suction and it comes with a HEPA filter that can assist anyone suffering from allergies. It also has a powerful battery which can be cleaned for up to two hours, and return to its dock automatically when the bin is full.

Smart mapping is another feature that helps it identify areas of your home that require attention, and then creates a cleaning path to get around them. We've seen this technology in action and it does a good job of moving around toys that are abandoned on the floor, or furniture legs that stick out of the ground. It also has a camera sensor that snaps the Roomba back to the real world when it starts drifting from its actual location.

iRobot has also introduced a new set of rollers underneath the Roomba's bottom, which don't have bristles and, therefore, tend to resist tangles more than earlier models. These are also a little taller than previous rollers, and will fit better under beds and couches that are low and are designed to help this model navigate more easily across different floor kinds.

The Roomba 980 stands out from other models of high-end quality due to its latest dirt detection feature, which uses cameras to detect dirt embedded. This is a significant improvement over the previous version that relied on a sensor-driven pseudorandom cover method to bounce around the room and scrub the area three times, at different angles.

The Roomba 980 performed well in our tests on both carpets and hard floors. Its score on the low pile carpet was excellent and it also scored a high score on mid pile, too. It did a good job getting rid of pet hair, but struggled with thick and long pet hair that was stuck together.

Despite these slight limitations, the Roomba 980 remains one of our most efficient robots, and isn't even nearly as expensive as the other top-of-the-line models in this list. It's still packed with a variety of features that we'd like to see in a flagship model however it lacks all the fancy apps or smart home integration that are found in other top contenders.

The iRobot Roomba can be set up quickly and is available for use immediately. After taking the yellow bin insert and pull tab from its undercarriage it is simply connected to an outlet on the wall or to its Home Base docking stations, press the "Clean button" and let it job. It will automatically return to its dock when its battery is out or it's stuffed with debris, and it also has indicators at the top to indicate when the bin is full, it needs to be recharged or its Wi-Fi signal has gone out.