It's 1AM and I'm sitting here watching robot vacuum cleaner videos

Best review I've seen on KZfaq yet regarding bot vacuums. Well done dude! if you move the virtual wall back about an inch you will find it will vacuum your pantry just fine

Thank you for this video. This is exactly what i wanted to see. Objective review of the two top of the line bots, using multiple realistic scenarios and objective measurement. Superb.

*I absolutely love this thing for cleaning all flooring surfaces **MyBest.Tools** even does a great job on throw rugs. Highly recommend! Cuts cleaning time in half!*

This is by far the best robot vacuum video review I've ever seen. Thanks! Could you also please make one for Roomba 980 vs Dyson 360 eye? :)

I just bought me a neato botvac connected due to this review, and I am very satisfied with the cleaning it does. It navigates smart and precise. The only downside to the botvac is its little corner brush which always gets tangled up by my wifes long hairs. It gets tangled so intense that I have to remove several bristles of the brush after each cleaning session making the brush smaller and smaller each time. Since I havent tried the Roomba 980 I cannot tell if it too would have the same problem with long human hair. I'm gonna vote for my wife to do a Britney instead of bying new sidebrushes. Thanks for this great comparison video!

I think the Roomba was the winner based on the complete effectiveness of each area that was presented. Great video! Thanks for sharing :)

Nice video. While the roomba was cleaning your citchen you were wondering why it was running randomly. If you have low light conditions the roomba runs randomly, turns circles and finally stops. This is a problem of the sensor - the camera. Every image processing system with a "normal" camera gets in serious trouble under low light conditions. I found out, that on a rainy summer day with 12000lux outside, roomba's navagation capability start to decrease. In the manual roomba says it would run even with dimmes artificial light. Roomba starts cleaning, gets desorientated and stops in the middle of the cleaning job. My testenvironment: 80 - 1500lux.

time for the dyson 360 eye. :D this was such a great video! thank you for taking the time to make this video! this makes me want to try out the Irobot Roomba 980. I tested the Neato botvac d85 and I did not like it that well.

Thanks so much for the excellent review! 💯

I have 2 Neato Vacs (1 upstairs and 1 downstairs). I love them!

Wow thank you for this review and for making it amusing, I did not get bored watching this and really loved the different scenarios I don't have kids but I do have cats and a small dog who leave toys everywhere now I just need to pick a vacuum and convince my husband that I need one.

Very methodological, very through, much appreciated.

Excellent review. Thank you.

Great review 👍

this is a great review by the way... I dont have the cash for a roomba but its good to know it works fairly well...

Would have been nice to see the last dirt test repeated on vinyl tile or similar. It's very popular (especially the snaplock type).

Thank you for your review. I think I'm going to go with the Neato because we don't have carpet.

good review and unbiased. I assess vacuum cleaners (not robots) for the major retailers in Australia and the sand test is the only way to do carpet pickup test comparisons, however I was wondering if you gave the carpet a good vacuum with an upright vac after you tested the Neato and before testing the iRobot to ensure there was no (or very little) sand left in the carpet? The way I test is a bit more technical but I have to make sure the carpet mats i use are perfectly clean in between tests. Having said that, it is clearly obvious just visually that the 980 picks up more sand and does a better job. I saw in the comments below someone asking for a review between the 980 and the Dyson Eye. Just wondering if you have managed to do that as it will be interesting to see what your results are compared to other reviews i have seen?

very helpful video. Thank you.

very helpful video. Thank you

great review!

Got a 980. Works great! Super impressed!

12:03 did you clean the carpet using usual vacuum cleaner before launching Roomba after Neato? If not then the test is not fair.

The best street price on the 980 is $699 whereas the Botvac Connected is around $450. The NEATO seems like a better deal.

This is really great.

GREAT VIDEO

I have the XV-21 and it worked great other than breaking after 3 years to the well known LIDAR issue. I bought a iRobot 6xx series, junk IMHO. Returned it. Bought a refurb XV-21 and happy again.

So glad I found this vid. I've been undecided between these two. Now I'm leaning toward the roomba for its suction but I have more obstacles. The 900 question continues. Lol

I want a lawnmower with navigational capabilities like the Neato so I can sit back and watch it mow my lawn.

iRobot Roomba 980 is an amazing robot with very high air power and has many features most of the users are unaware of. Roomba 980 is packed with some terrific new features like smartphone integration, smart charging and improved navigation.

Great video!!!

hey Nick, just a quick comment i noticed about the botvac connected. It comes with two brushes not sure about which is better for cleaning yet but i did notice thought that with the brush you have installed hair ect seems to get coaught in it a lot more commong and thus meaning more maintaince. with the other brush i have noticed it seems to never have hair wrapped around this. might be a nice addition to the video. Also might be good to compare the two apps for smart phone

Which one does better in terms of room-to-room navigation? like 1500sqft ?

Please make a comparison Irobot vs neato vs samsung powerbot

Did you notice that the test with the dirt on the carpet was not a fair one? For Neato Botvac you had 1 cup of dirt, and you showed that it sucked up about 1/2 a cup. In the video for the next test, it was clear that half a cup of dirt was still in the carpet for the next test with iRobot Roomba. You poured another 1 cup into the carpet which means there is now 1.5 cups of dirt in the carpet for iRobot Roomba 980 to try pickup. I think this difference in dirt may have skewed the results, making iRobot Roomba look 'much' better then it would have if you had the same amount of dirt in the carpet for both tests. All other tests were good.

Did you cleaned the carpet before Roomba run on last test? Otherwise Roomba started with 150% dirt on the floor (50% that neato didnt pick up previously). Other then that dirt detection looks really impressive.

Roomba 980 with Neato´s Lidar navigation system would be a perfect cleaning robot.

Dear Android Headlines, would you consider making a video comparison on Xiaomi robot vacuum and the neato botvac? I just bought the roomba and hated it. The navigation is so bad. If you are unable to make the video, would you advise getting the xiaomi robot vacuum or neato botvac connected? Thank you so much!

Amazing review. I think it's the best i've watched. I am looking into retail and maintenance of vacuum robots here in Nigeria. It is a new market here and i have been online trying to watch different reviews, so i can make the best choices. I do not have all the money to throw about in experimentation so i have to make specific purchases. So far so good, your experiments and reviews have taken about "95%" of my experiment need (Just like the Roomba :D). I have one question though. Which robot would you recommend for a larger room size. Like a small hall, for a small gathering. I do not mind having multiple robots to do this. Robots might be too expensive for the larger population to purchase, so it will be easier to provide the robot cleaning services to Newly constructed houses that haven't been bought, or halls, as large as the robots can work on. I was looking into the iRobot Braava series for this, since most large floors here are plain tiled or hard wood, so mopping would be easier, and cheaper too. Or what do you think? Anyway, amazing review you've done here!!!

but I am not using the robot to spot clean the floor. All I want is for it to pickup those tiny dust bunnies, and Neato seems to do a much better job at covering all the corners.

can u do a review of the new neato d5 vs the roomba 960. Both come in at $600, and have apps.

The Roomba won the popular vote but the Neoto won the electoral college.

+Android Headlines did you vacuum up the remaining dirt in the carpet in between the two tests?

how about a roomba 980 vs dyson 360 ??

Why didn't you remove the 1/2 cup of sand still in the carpet before you added another 1 cup and let the iRobot start cleaning. The iRobot really had 1 1/2 cups of sand in the carpet to pickup.

I use robotic cleaners as mostly as an aid and use a very good vacuum manually from time to time.

Not sure that your sand on carpet test was executed well. The sand from the botvac test was still visible. Therefore, the "90%" of 1 cup of sand retrieved by the Roomba, is more likely to be actually 60% of 1 1/2 cups.

Neato: Swallowing whole your children's toys since its inception.

I think you should’ve compared the D7 and the 980 because they are both the top of the line robots from both companies. It’s a little unfair since the botvac is a lower robot that Neato makes.

спасибо

Those robots could takeover the world!!

The neato comes with a silicone brush so it might have one the dirt test with it installed

Tbh I have both and I don’t even use the Spot clean mode for either of them. If I do spill things I just use the Roomba’s remote to manually control the bot to clean it up. It’s much faster and efficient

I have a Roomba 880 and it will not reliably pick up clumps of cat fur from my Berber carpets, it eats the corner of my rugs and bumps into furniture like no tomorrow. I am looking to replace, going with the Botvac connected after testing a D75 here in my house. It picked up everything the botvac left behind.

You cut the neato barriers that is why it was keep on moving them

Does it run android????

The best would be a robot that operates a Miele/Dyson/Hoover ;)

I ran a Neato for one week and the entire topside of the robot was destroyed, it would force itself under some furniture and get stuck. Has easily been my least recommended robot vacuum.

nice

Wow, the 980 Roomba is definitely a better cleaner...especially on carpet.

thank you for doing this I guess 980 is it

Waiting for my Mi Robot to arrive, by all reviews it would seem to perform the same and if not better and all at a fraction of the price (flashsale at gearbest £270). I have several Xiaomi products and have been well impressed with their design, build quality and support. Lots of reviews have expressed concern re replacement filters and brushes etc. These are also now available at GB and also for a good price.

well I also tested both and in the end the botvac connected made the better job especially because it was not scared by black carpets or black signs on the carpet. because of that the roomba didn't find its way back to the sation and took way too long for cleaing. Also the carpet sensor only works for big carpets since the sensor has a lag time which will kick in after the roomba already left the small carpet. im talking about a carpet that is 80x80 cm. because i don't have much carpets the cleaning result was good on both sides and i have the slight feeling that brushes work better. but this is only a feeling

Am i the only one wonder what that person in the reflection of the oven window is doing lol

anyone notice what's going on in the stoves reflection?

I have a Roomba 650. I feel like the navigation is not so good after I have moved to my new apartment. Are these new bots a lot better?

Why noone compares the noise level of these robots?

EVERYONE!!! Please let's all take a moment to find out what is happening in the reflection of the oven starting at 5:00?!?

Looks like Roomba does a better job at cleaning.....I have a Neato XV21 that's getting a bit old and am thinking of buying myself another one....but so hard to choose!

I just got a roomba 890, total waste of money and time. The staircase sensor picks up the bold pattern in my rugs as the edge of stairs. The unit shuts down with an error 6 and that's it. I'm taking it back to exchange for a neato.

Roomba is better for households with pets too. The hair don't stuck on the intake because of the rubber.

I Love Neato Botvac Connected!!! I call mine Jar Jar! ha

Neato is good but NOT RELIABLE at all. My 1st lasted 20 days!! ( thinking it might be a lemon?! ) So, picked up 2nd Neato, well this one lasted a little longer, just over 3 months. Apparently with the same error code (#3000). Switched to Roomba.

4:05 oven window -> what's happening behind the scenes?

I'm surprised it picked up leaves, they aren't designed to rake your leaves too!! Geesh, these bot's are mainly created for maintenance cleaning, I understand how people break them all the time now!

Wich should i buy the iromba or neato

Stair detection does not work. He tumbled down the stairs and now the bumper is ded. And impossible to find spare parts!

12:55 there where 1.5 cups of dirt on there so less then 1 cup is about 50%

I hope autonomous car programmers are going to do better job. I dont want my new car bringing sample of every neighborhood lantern and street sign paint back to my garage. Are thy supposed to continuously bump into things like furniture and walls?

So from this test, to me the results are the following: Both are still gimmicks that do an overall poor job of cleaning, so you'll still have to vacuum using the real deal. I still prefer the new Hoover Air Cordless, which will make vacuuming fast, enjoyable and cordless.

half of the dirt the neato didnt pick up the irobot picked up which is unfair since irobot gets more dirt

12:12 should have used different areas of carpet. I havent even finished watching, but this gives the roomba and unfair advantage

Why can't we have suction power of roomba and the brain of neato?? 🤔😩😤 It so satisfying to see neato working in organized way but it needs to clean better..

check samsung VR9000 , the best in vacuum machine

What about pet hair?

just get both i see it already

my roomba doesnt do that circle thing

under the washer the wood is chewed away from the mouse that lurks in the dark.

no cat and dog hair test, really?

I think neato won bc u still haven’t tested the silicone brush yet

I'm not getting rid of my carpet. Baby needs cushion while learning to walk... so Neto vac it is...

You left a cup and a half of dirt for the roomba. Both left half cup in carpet.

what is the audio on this. you sound like you're talking into a cup

What are you doing in the reflection? LOL Seems naughty @ 5:11-5:20 :P

Roomba wins.

remove the side brush if you dont want cat litter being thrown all over the floor

Biased

I think the reason that neato absolutely smashes Roomba is cause Roomba’s are considered budget cleaners meaning they are very poorly built and has larger budget cuts meanwhile neato is a luxury and more expensive built as a vacuum.

Why were you ripping the bin off that 980? It's one big button you spastic 😆