The iRobot Roomba 980 brookstone robot vacuum Vacuum Cleaner

Ihome robot Vacuum vacuums take pet hair, lint, and dust from the floor before they can settle. They also can avoid obstacles like furniture that is slippery and staircases.

Most robotic vacs require some maintenance, such as emptying (and occasionally, rinsing) the bin, and wiping cameras and sensors. Also, they need to be plugged into a power source. Many come with smartphone apps to schedule, adjust settings, and more.

iRobot Roomba 960

The iRobot Roomba 980 is the most recent in the line of top-of-the-line narwal robot mop and vacuum vacuum cleaners that are a staple of every modern household. This model is equipped with a HEPA filter that can aid those suffering from allergies. It also comes with a powerful battery which can clean for two hours before returning to its dock automatically once the bin is full.

It also comes with a feature called smart mapping, which makes use of multiple sensors to help it determine the areas of your home that require attention and create a cleaning path around them. We've seen this technology in action and it does a great job of moving around toys that have been placed on the floor or furniture legs that stick out from under things. It also has a camera that snaps the Roomba back to the real world when it starts to drift away from its original location.

iRobot has also added a new set of rollers underneath the Roomba's bottom, which do not have bristles, and thus tend to be more resistant to tangles than the previous models. These rollers are also taller and can be tucked under low couches or beds. They're designed to make this model more movable on various flooring types.

The Roomba 980 differs from other models of high-end quality by its new dirt detection feature, which uses a camera in order to detect embedded dirt. This is a great improvement over the previous version which relied on a sensor-driven pseudorandom cover method to bounce around a room and clean it at minimum three times from various angles.

In our tests of its performance, the Roomba 980 did well on both hard flooring and carpets. It scored very well on carpets with a low pile, and on mid-pile. It did a decent job of removing pet hair, but it had a difficult time with extremely thick and long pet fur that was clumped together.

The Roomba 980 is still one of the most efficient robots on our list despite the minor drawbacks. It's also not as expensive as top-of-the-line models. It has many of the features we would expect from a flagship model, but it doesn't have all the fancy apps or smart home integration you'd find in other top contenders.

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