It cleaned my whole house, including medium pile carpet, area rugs, hardwood floors and hard tile , and it handled oodles of dog hair with relative ease. While smarter than their upright counterparts, robot vacuums can’t immediately detect where a mess has been made. But unlike some robots that randomly ping-pong across a room, the 360 Eye has a more methodical approach to cleaning. According to Dyson, the robot maps each room using its camera and divides it into quadrants. It then goes back and forth in a grid pattern until that entire portion of the room is clean before moving to the next. I tried picking up the robot and placing it in a different room and was impressed to find it not only recognized what had happened, but returned to its original spot to finish what had already been started.
Still, it is cheaper alternative than the 360 Eye, while delivering a faster cleaning job. The Roomba 980 uses updated iAdapt 2.0 technology, along with a pair of highly sensitive sensors to learn the floor plan of your home as it vacuums. It will remember the layout of each room, along with where your furniture is placed, so it will know exactly where to clean during its cycle. Dyson may have unveiled its new 360 Eye robot vacuum (MSRP about $1000) in Tokyo, but the company also brought one of the first working models to IFA Berlin. But the best part of the app might be the Activity tab, which shows you a history of your vacuum’s outings, and the coverage area it cleaned each time. These graphs are only stored locally on your device, and show you how long the vacuum was working, how many charges it required to finish the job, and the total area your bot covered during the trip.
This model is a high-end robot vacuum that offers many of the same features and stats of the Roomba line-up, but is quite a bit more expensive. If the V-Series is intriguing to you, you may want to check out our fullDyson V10 cordless stick vacuum review. It’s got more power than even the V8 and is the only Dyson which scored 100% on thehardwood cleaning test, similar to the Roomba 980 or Roomba 960 model.
Of course, it won’t vacuum your floors for you like a robot will, but with the simple trigger switch, you can use just the right amount of power you need for each job, saving battery life for the cleaning task. The cleaning process of theDyson V8is similar to that of the V10, and well basically all of the shark cordless V-Series Dyson stick vacuums. It has a floor motorized cleaning head, debris travels up the stick, and deposits into the dust bin. The best robot vacuum for pet hair that we’ve tested on carpets is the iRobot Roomba S9. It’s a premium vacuum with excellent build quality, made of high-grade plastic.
At least until they sprout legs and can deal with awkward cables, rugs and the like, but – when that comes – we’re likely all doomed anyway. While stairs remain their nemesis, most robot vacuums do use their camera smarts to detect a ton of hazards so you’ll likely be surprised by how much they don’t crash into things, come your first use. Robot vacuum cleaners have joined dishwashers, washing machines and tumble dryers, i.e. the veterans of the cleaning world, in automating pesky chores and minimising hassle.
This robot vacuum clears pet hair on many different floor types with very little trouble, including flat, even surfaces like hardwood or low and high-pile carpet. It also has a HEPA filter, which is good if you suffer from allergies. If you’re a pet owner with mostly bare floors in your home, the dyson robot vacuum yeedi vac station is a great option. It does a fantastic job dealing with pet hair on flat, even surfaces like hardwood, tile, or linoleum flooring. You can also easily pull out its brushroll to clear out any tangled pet hair. The iRobot Roomba s9+ is the full package for keeping your home clean.
There’s a little more to using this vacuum cleaner than its predecessor, starting with a requirement to map an area before the robot can clean it. You can store maps of multiple floors, moving the 360 Heurist around your home to clean everywhere. Keep in mind the company’s last robot vacuum, the 360 Heurist, never launched in the US, though it came to the UK. In Pocket-lint’s review of the automated cleaner, we said Dyson’s second-generation robot vacuum has a lot of superpower – whether on carpet, wood, or otherwise – that helps it stand out from the crowd.
Specifically, it has issues with sloped pedestal stands for chairs, including ones found on my living room lounger, and those which support my kitchen bar height stools. The Dyson bot regularly tries to climb these, seems to hesitate about it halfway over the lip, and then essentially gives up, freezing until I come and reposition it. Each time this has happened, the vacuum has finished the job nicely after I relocated it, but it’s still something that would prevent setting it while I was out of the house and guaranteeing a thorough clean. The squat little cylinder of a bot first broke cover in September 2014, with a splashy product announcement and a consumer launch in Japan in 2015. North American homes are only just getting their first taste of Dyson’s inaugural foray into robotics, however, and my own has been playing host to one for the past couple of weeks. The Dyson 360 Eye is the one of the best robot vacuums you can buy thanks to its impressive cleaning and navigation abilities, but you can find similarly equipped alternatives for less money.