This year it was huge for robot vacuum cleaners, with new and emerging models of Dream, Eureka and Roborock that now clamber about obstacles, focuses on water spills and even picking up your socks, all in the name of more effective, hands-free cleaning.
You can see our top choices between robotoffacums that you can now buy in our round-up of the best robot vacuum cleaners we have tested.
But ask everyone outside the technical world to call a kind of robot vacuum and the answer will certainly be Roomba. That is why it is strange that Irobot, the brand behind Roomba, is striking because of its absence during a bumper period of innovative launchings.
And now we know why.
Irobot has prepared for the largest line-up ever of robot vacuums. The four new robot models will be available for pre-order from March 18 in the US and selected European countries of iRobot.com.
The prices start at € 399/$ 469 for the simple Roomba 105 combination, which is supplied with a auto-discontinue dock, and go up to € 799/$ 999 for the Roomba Plus 505 Combo, which is supplied with a Autowashdok that is delivered on board, waxes and self-management of. The prices seems extremely reasonable for what is being offered.
With the new models, a renewed Roomba -Home -app is accompanied that should be easier to use.
Every model will provide:
- Stronger suction
- More accurate Lidar -Navigation and Fast Mapping
- Mop better (all comparisons are made against the Roomba 600 series)
- Automatic carpet detection and avoidance
- Object detection and avoidance
In addition, the more expensive models will have the precision -vision AI technology of Irobot, which will make the robot even more skilled about obstacle identification and avoidance.
There are numerous great functions in the new models, especially the Roomba 505 combination, which extends MOP -Pads for edge cleaning. But what we don’t see are functions that are new to the market. But it is about how well the new robots are performing. The prices are competitive and everyone after all loves a Roomba.