The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner

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

Most robotic vacuums require maintenance. This includes emptying the bin (and sometimes rinsing it) and cleaning the cameras and sensors. They also need to be plugged in. A lot of them have apps for smartphones for scheduling, setting and more.

iRobot Roomba 980

The iRobot Roomba 980, best robot vacuum for pets the most recent in a line of top-of the-line wet dry robot vacuum vacuums, is a must for any modern home. This model is extremely powerful suction as well as it comes with a HEPA filter that can assist anyone suffering from allergies. In addition, it also has a powerful battery that can clean up to two hours and it automatically returns to its dock once its bin is full.

It also comes with the feature of smart mapping that uses multiple sensors to help determine the areas of your home that require attention and make a tidy route around them. We've seen this technology in action and it does a great job of maneuvering around toys that have been left scattered on the floor or furniture legs that are sticking out from under the furniture. It also has a sensor that snaps Roomba to reality if it starts to move away from its original position.

iRobot also added an additional set of rollers beneath the Roomba that don't have bristles, and therefore are more likely to avoid the tangles that previous models. These are also a little taller than older rollers, and will fit better under low couches and beds, best robot vacuum for pets and they're designed to let this model move more easily across different flooring types.

The Roomba 980 is distinguished from other high-end models due to its latest dirt detection feature, which makes use of a camera in order to detect embedded dirt. This is a great improvement over the previous model, which relied on the sensor-driven pseudorandom coverage method to bounce around the room and clean everything at least three times from different angles.

In our tests of its performance, the Roomba 980 did well on both hard flooring and carpets. Its score on the low pile carpet was excellent and it scored a excellent score on mid pile, too. It did a good job picking up pet hair but had a difficult time with the long and thick pet hair that was stuck together.

Despite these slight limitations, the Roomba 980 remains one of our best robot Vacuum for pets-performing robots, and it's even far from being as costly as the other top-of-the-line models on this list. It still has a lot of features that we'd expect to find in a flagship model however it lacks all the fancy apps or smart home integration that you might find in other top models.

The iRobot Roomba can be set up in a matter of minutes and is available for use as soon as you are ready to. After removing the battery pull tab and yellow bin insert from undercarriage, all that you need to do is plug it into its Home Base docking station or a wall socket, press its large "Clean" button and let it get to work. It will automatically return to the dock when it has run out of batteries or is full of debris. There are also indicators at the top of the bin that let you know the bin is empty, or when it requires recharging, or when it loses Wi-Fi.