The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Vacuum Cleaners
The Ultimate Guide to Automatic Vacuum Cleaners
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The list of reputable brands making high-quality robot vacuums doesn’t stretch long, but CR evaluates all of the mainstays, which run the spectrum between inexpensive and luxury.
The Ecovacs Deebot T30S robot vacuum offers flagship features at a mid-range price. With 11,000 Pa suction, it excels on hard floors and carpets. Its Omni station provides hot water mop washing, automatic refilling, hot air drying, and a removable tray. Adaptive edge mopping enhances corner cleaning, and it lifts mop pads over carpets—though the lift height could improve on longer carpets.
Most smart robot vacuums can map-out your home using sensors, so they can remember any obstacles, such as the stairs, and let you identify specific rooms/multiple floors.
The Roomba Vac 2 Essential robot + AutoEmpty dock makes cleaning effortless, with 2x cleaning power* and navigation technology that guides it to vacuum your floors in neat rows.
The Shark PowerDetect 2-in-1 offers the best of everything. It intelligently mops and vacuums your floors for up to 30 days. Just set a schedule and the robot returns to its base to empty the dustbin, wash the mop, and refill the tank automatically.
Even better, its onboard AI is smart enough to detect stains and scrub them harder, finding dirt to boost suction power for maximum performance.
The Roomba s9+ also comes with a self-emptying charging base; while it's unfortunate that you'll have to purchase replacement Automatic Vacuum Cleaners bags for this base, you will only have to empty the container every 30 days. This will save you a lot of time versus emptying the onboard dustbin.
It's also packed with handy features such as its upgraded AdaptLift chassis that allows easy access over tall thresholds (without getting stuck). The App was easy to set up, map and schedule routines. More importantly, the Orevo Curv excelled in the majority of our tests.
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Shark's IQ robot vacuum is stacked with smarts and collects then deposits debris into its docking station after each cleaning session. This bagless base system holds over a month's worth of dirt. You can use its advanced scheduling feature to set and forget it until it's time to empty out the dock.
The handheld vacuum was a great complement; not only did it suck the crumbs out of our couch cushions, but it was also able to pick up the kitty litter that the Deebot T30s missed in the carpet cleaning lab test.
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Mapping is fast and accurate, and we were impressed that the floorplans will automatically update whenever doors are left open and the robovac “discovers” a new part of the house it hadn’t seen before.
In our tests, it performed better close to thresholds and around rugs than any other bot, except for the much pricier Miele Scout RX3.