The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner

Robot vacuums take pet hair, lint and dust from the floor before they settle. They also can avoid obstacles such as furniture that is unstable and stairs.

Most robotic vacuums require maintenance. This includes emptying the bin (and sometimes, rinsing it) and wiping the sensors and cameras. They also need to be connected. Many come with smartphone apps for scheduling, adjusting settings and more.

Roomba 980 from iRobot

The iRobot Roomba 980 is the most recent in the series of top-of-the-line robot vacuum cleaners that are an essential part of any modern household. This model is incredibly powerful suction and a HEPA filter that can help anyone concerned about allergies. It also comes with an extremely powerful battery that can clean for two hours before returning to its dock automatically once the bin is full.

Smart mapping is another feature that assists in identifying areas in your home that require attention and provides a path for cleaning around them. This technology is extremely effective in navigating toys left on the floor, or furniture legs that are sticking out from underneath objects. It also has a camera sensor that will snap the Roomba back to the real world when it starts to drift from its intended location.

iRobot also added a set of rollers underneath the Roomba that do not have bristles, cheaper and therefore are more likely to resist the tangles that previous models. They're also a bit taller than previous rollers and are able to fit under beds and couches with low sides and are designed to let this model move more easily across different floor kinds.

The Roomba 980 stands out from other models with a high-end price tag due to its latest dirt detection feature, which uses a camera in order to identify dirt that has been embedded. This is an improvement over the previous model that relied on a sensor-driven pseudorandom cover method to bounce around the room and cheaper scrub the area three times, at different angles.

In our tests of its performance in our tests of its performance, the Roomba 980 did well on carpets and hard flooring. It scored highly on carpets with low pile and on mid-pile. It was successful in picking up pet hair but had a difficult time with the long and thick pet hair that was stuck together.

The Roomba 980 is still one of the best shark robot vacuum for pet hair performing robots in our list despite the slight limitations. It's also not as expensive as top-of the-line models. It comes with many of the features we would expect from a flagship model, but doesn't come with all the fancy apps or smart home integrations you'll find in other top models.

The iRobot Roomba can be set up in a matter of minutes and is ready to use immediately. After taking the yellow bin insert and pull tab from the undercarriage, you just plug it into an outlet on the wall or to its Home Base docking stations, click the "Clean button" and let it do the work. It will automatically return to its dock when its battery is out or cheaper it's stuffed with debris, and it has indicator lights on the top to indicate when its bin is full, it's time to recharge, or its Wi-Fi signal has gone out.