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The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner
Robot vacuums remove pet hair, lint and dust from the floor before they can settle. They also help avoid stairs and other obstacles, including tippy furniture.
Most robotic vacuums require maintenance, such as emptying (and occasionally, rinsing) the bin and wiping cameras and sensors. They also need to be plugged in. Many come with smartphone applications for scheduling, adjusting setting and more.
Roomba 980 from iRobot
The iRobot Roomba 980 is the most recent in the line of top-of-the-line robotic vacuum cleaners that are a staple of any modern household. This model has seriously strong suction as well as a HEPA filter that'll assist anyone suffering from allergies. On best shark robot vacuum of that it also has a strong battery that can clean for up to two hours and it will return to its dock once its bin is full.
It also comes with a feature called smart mapping which uses multiple sensors to suss out 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 good job of maneuvering around toys placed on the floor, or furniture legs that are sticking out from under the furniture. Roomba also has a sensor that snaps Roomba back to reality when it starts to move away from its original position.
iRobot has also added a new set of rollers underneath the bottom of the Roomba that don't have bristles and therefore tend to resist tangles better than previous models. The rollers are also larger and can be tucked under low couches or beds. They're specifically designed to make this model more movable on various floor types.
The Roomba 980 stands out from other high-end models by its brand new dirt detection feature that makes use of cameras to detect embedded dirt. This is a significant improvement over the previous version that relied on a sensor-driven pseudorandom cover method to bounce around the room and scrub everything three times at different 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 was successful in picking up pet hair but had a difficult time with the long and thick pet hair that was stuck together.
Despite these small shortcomings, the Roomba 980 remains one of our best-performing robots, and it's even far from being as costly as the other top-of-the-line models in this list. It's got plenty of features we'd expect to see in a flagship model, but it doesn't have all the fancy apps or smart home integration that you'll find in other top contenders.
The iRobot Roomba is easy to set up and get up and running immediately. After you have removed the pull tab for the battery and yellow bin insert from undercarriage, all you have to do is plug it into its Home Base docking station or an outlet on the wall, press its large "Clean" button and let it get to work. It will return to its dock when the battery runs out or it's full of debris, and it also has indicators on the top for when its bin is full or it requires recharging or if its Wi-Fi signal is lost.