Robot vacuums are designed to stay quiet and out of sight as much as possible. They don’t work as well if they’re constantly getting underfoot — or if they start making loud, unexpected noises, which ...

This budget robot vacuum nails the basics - Ditching the fancy features of its premium siblings, the iRobot Roomba combo 105 ...

To find the best Roombas, we compared iRobot's core lineup, which includes the j7+, the s9+ and the 694 (pictured). It goes without saying that not all Roombas are the same, and how often you plan to ...

It might come as a surprise that "roomba" isn't the universal term for a robot vacuum. It is, in fact, a capital "R" that denotes Roomba as a proper noun rather than a generic trademark. Roombas are ...

Faced with a deluge of Chinese competitors, debt issues and the collapse of a sale to Amazon, American home robotics company iRobot is in some trouble at the moment at the corporate level, and all the ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. Roomba's recognizability ...

We may receive a commission on purchases made from links. I have been testing robot vacuums for about a decade now. In that time, I've tried well over 100 different models. If you've read my Roomba ...