The iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum Cleaner

Robot vacuums sweep pet hair, lint, and dust off floors before they can settle. They can also stay clear of obstacles like furniture that is unstable and staircases.

The majority of 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 apps for scheduling, adjusting settings and more.

Roomba 960 from iRobot

The iRobot Roomba 980 is the most recent in the line of top-of-the-line small robot vacuum vacuum Mop cleaners that are an essential part of any modern household. This model is incredibly powerful suction and a HEPA filter that'll help anyone concerned about allergies. Additionally it also has a strong battery that can clean up to two hours and it will automatically return to its dock once its bin is full.

It also comes with an option called smart mapping, Vacuum Mop which makes use of multiple sensors to suss out the areas in your home that need 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 that have been placed on the floor or furniture legs that are sticking out from under things. Roomba also comes with a sensor that can snap Roomba to reality if it begins to wander away from its initial location.

iRobot has also added the option of rolling rollers under the Roomba that do not have bristles and are therefore more likely to resist tangles than previous models. The rollers are also larger and can be tucked under beds or couches with low sides. They're designed to make the model more movable on various flooring types.

The Roomba 980 is distinguished from other models of high-end quality due to its latest dirt detection feature, which makes use of cameras to identify dirt that has been embedded. This is a nice improvement over the previous version which relied on a 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 it was found that the Roomba 980 did well on carpets and hard flooring. It scored extremely well on low-pile carpet and also on mid-pile. It did a great job collecting pet hair, but struggled with long and thick pet hair that was stuck together.

Despite these slight limitations, the Roomba 980 remains one of our best-performing robots, and it's even nearly as expensive as the other top models on this list. It still has a lot of features that we'd expect to see in a flagship model however it lacks all the fancy apps or smart home integration you might find in other top robot vacuum cleaner contenders.

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