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The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner

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

Most robotic vacs require some maintenance, such as shark self emptying robot vacuum (and occasionally rinsing) the bin, and wiping sensors and cameras. They also need to be connected. Many come with smartphone applications to schedule, adjust settings and more.

iRobot Roomba 980

The iRobot Roomba 980 is the latest in the series of top-of-the-line robot vacuum cleaners that are an essential part of any modern household. This model has seriously strong suction as well as a HEPA filter that'll help anyone concerned about allergies. In addition it has a strong battery that can clean up to two hours and it automatically returns to its dock when it is full.

It also comes with the feature of smart mapping that uses multiple sensors to determine the areas of your home that need attention and create a cleaning route around them. We've seen this technology in action and it does an excellent job of moving around toys that are placed on the floor, or furniture legs that stick out from under the furniture. It also has a camera that snaps the Roomba back to its original position when it starts drifting from its intended location.

iRobot has also included the option of rolling rollers under the Roomba which do not have bristles, and are therefore more likely to resist tangles than previous models. These are also a little taller than older rollers, and will fit better under low couches and beds, and they're designed to let this model move more easily on varying flooring kinds.

The Roomba 980 is distinguished from other models with a high-end price tag by its brand new dirt detection feature that makes use of cameras to detect dirt embedded. This is a great improvement over the previous version which relied on the sensor-driven pseudorandom coverage method to bounce around the room and clean it at minimum three times from various angles.

In our tests of its performance in our tests of its performance, the Roomba 980 did well on carpets and hard flooring. Its score on low pile carpet was excellent and it scored a high score on mid pile, too. It was successful in collecting pet hair, however it struggled with the thick and long pet hair that was stuck together.

Despite these small shortcomings, the Roomba 980 remains one of our most efficient robots, and isn't even far from being as costly as some of the other top-of-the-line models in this list. It's still packed with a variety of features that we'd expect to find in a flagship model however it lacks all the fancy apps or smart home integration are found in other top models.

The iRobot Roomba is simple to set up and get up and running immediately. After taking the yellow bin insert and battery pull tab from its undercarriage you simply plug it into a wall socket or its Home Base docking stations, hit the "Clean button" and let it do the work. It will return to its dock when its battery is out or it's full of debris. It also has indicators at the top of the device to indicate that its bin is full, it's time to recharge or its Wi-Fi signal is lost.