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But they're not just for people who are busy – they're also a great help to anyone with shedding pets, young children, the elderly or those with a physical restriction.

For our straight-line pickup tests on hard flooring, we spread large and small debris within a marked area proportional to the width of each robot vacuum’s nozzle. Each robot vacuum is given 10 minutes to clean and the debris collected is weighed to determine how much was picked up.

Compared with brushless suction port, the roller brush can deep clean fine dust in all types of floors. Cleaning brush help to solve the entangle hair, no worry about it.

The j7+ comes with a cleaning base which is hard to fault. It can hold up to 60 days of debris and looks easy on the eye compared to other bases — plus it’s more compact too.

Intuitive app, but robot doesn't always do as its told, and there's an issue with separating open plan spaces.

Most smart robot vacuums can map-out your home using sensors, so they can remember any obstacles, such as the stairs, and let you identify specific rooms/multiple floors.

Plus, we liked its superior mop powers to tackle stubborn stains. But if you're looking for a more affordable robot vac, we would suggest our best budget pick iLife V3S Pro, which cleans even tricky materials such as pet hair like a champ without breaking the bank.

❌ You have an open plan home: The Narwal app won't let you demarcate open plan spaces into 'rooms'.

Robot vacuums have improved tenfold since they were first introduced, both in terms of navigation and pickup. And while the gap between these devices and upright models is indeed closing, there is still admittedly a gap.

For this price, its downsides are tradeoffs Top 3 Automatic Vacuum Cleaners we're willing to make. That's why it's also one of the best cheap robot vacuums.

Carolyn Forté, the Good Housekeeping Institute's Home Care and Cleaning Lab executive director, has over quarenta years of experience testing and writing about all kinds of vacuums. For this roundup, she oversaw all of the testing conducted by Lynn Redmile, the testing and product review analyst who conducted our Lab's last full category test of robot vacuums where three of the picks on this list came from.

It's good at avoiding objects, reliably dodging pets and other discarded objects, and only really struggling with cables (which pelo robovac we've tested has been able to reliably avoid).

Though there are options that cost under $100, we have never found a high-quality robot model in that price range, though there are plenty of other good inexpensive vacuums.

In our tests, it excelled at removing pet hair from carpets, with none of the hair tangling in the brush roll or clogging the dustbin — it was all automatically emptied into the dock’s spacious 3-liter dust bag.