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The best robot vacuums

Cleaning performance is easy to demonstrate in a showroom and hard to sustain in a real home. Our testing is built around long-run reliability, obstacle handling and running costs.

Meridians Reviews Desk · Methodology published 5 criteria deep

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How we will decide this list

Criteria are fixed before testing starts, so a pick cannot be reverse-engineered from whatever we happened to like.

  1. 01Pick-up performance on hard floor and carpet with standardised debris.
  2. 02Navigation and obstacle avoidance in a furnished, lived-in space.
  3. 03Noise measured at a fixed distance.
  4. 04Consumables: cost and replacement interval over three years.
  5. 05Data handling — what is uploaded, and whether mapping can stay local.

The picks

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