• anon6789
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      22 months ago

      Who’s the leader in the category these days? I’d be curious to see some videos and reviews of the best of the current gen.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 months ago

        Not sure if they’re a “leader” but I got two shark robot vacuums (same model) that are excellent. In the past I have purchased the “bump around and vacuum in circles and hope they don’t get stuck” type and they were just ok. The new ones I have can map the room with IR and you can program no go spaces in the app. I have two because the downside is it can only map one floor at a time so if I wanted it to run on two floors one would be mapped and the other would be “random bumping around” method.

        The new one also came with a tank so if I run it on the whole first floor and it gets full it’ll go empty itself and start back up again.

        I got em last year and ran me around $350 each I believe.

        • anon6789
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          22 months ago

          Thanks! I’ve mostly enjoyed my Shark upright for a number of years now and I had wondered about their vac-bots.

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          22 months ago

          Neato looks to have gone kaput last year. The shape seemed to have positive benefits over the typical round ones. I wonder why no one else has gone that direction.

          The 2-in-1 mop and vac Roombas looks exciting, though at a heck of a cost at the price of a Miele or 6 of my Shark uprights.

          It’s wild these are on their tenth generation. I think mine was a 2nd.