The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner

commercial robot vacuum vacuums eliminate pet hair, lint and dust from the floor before they settle. They can also avoid obstacles such as furniture that is tippy and staircases.

Most robotic vacuums require maintenance. This involves emptying the bin (and sometimes rinsing it) and wiping the cameras and Robot Vacuum Cleaner Black Friday sensors. They also require to be plugged in. Many come with smartphone apps for scheduling, setting up settings, and more.

Roomba 980 from iRobot

The iRobot Roomba 980 is the latest model in the line of top-of-the-line Robot Vacuum With Docking Station vacuum cleaners that are an essential part of every modern household. This model comes with a HEPA filter that can assist those who suffer from allergies. It also has an extremely powerful battery that can clean for two hours and returns to its dock automatically once the bin is full.

Smart mapping is a different feature that allows it to identify areas of your home that require attention and creates a cleaning path to get around them. We've seen this technology in action and it does an excellent job of moving around toys that are abandoned on the floor or furniture legs that are sticking out from under things. It also has a camera that can snap the Roomba back to reality when it begins to drift from its intended location.

iRobot has also added a new set of rollers under the bottom of the Roomba that do not have bristles, and thus tend to be more resistant to tangles than earlier models. They are also taller and can fit under low couches or beds. They're specifically designed to make this model more maneuverable on different floor types.

What makes the Roomba 980 stand out from other models of this class however, is its incorporation of the latest dirt detection feature, which uses cameras to detect tiny bits of dirt. This is a significant improvement over the previous version that relied on an algorithm that was driven by sensors to bounce around the room and scrub the entire area three times at various angles.

In our tests of its performance it was found that the Roomba 980 did well on both hard flooring and carpets. Its score on low pile carpet was impressive, and mop robot vacuum it got a very high score on mid pile too. It did a decent job of picking up pet hair, but it had a difficult time with very long and thick pet fur that was stuck together.

Despite these small shortcomings, the Roomba 980 remains one of our top-performing robots, and it's even close to being as expensive as some of the other top-of-the-line models in this list. It has a lot of features you'd expect from a flagship model, but it doesn't have all the fancy apps or home integrations you'll see in other top contenders.

The iRobot Roomba is easy to set up and get up and running immediately. After taking the yellow bin insert and battery pull tab from the undercarriage, you just plug it into a wall socket or its Home Base docking stations, click the "Clean button" and let it do its job. It will automatically return to docking station when it has run out of battery or becomes full of trash. There are also indicator lights on top that indicate the bin is empty, when it is in need of recharging or when it loses its Wi-Fi.