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Autonomous household robots that vacuum and mop floors, often paired with self-emptying docks, cameras and obstacle-avoidance sensors.
Gizmodo's reviewer says the $1,300 Eufy Omni E35 is a rare high-end robot vacuum that gets the basics right. After a year of pricier bots that lurched and scattered debris, the reviewer calls it the first $1,000-plus mopping bot tested that fits under a couch and is worth the money.
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The V70 Ultra Complete extends a mop pad 6.7 inches and a side brush 5 inches to clean around chair legs. Its 42,000Pa suction number is the least interesting thing about it.
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The Roomba Max 875 leads on a sealing mechanism rather than a Pascal rating, but the same mechanism ships in the $899 model, which leaves the flagship premium resting on heated mist and two extra liters of air per second.
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A husband in Taiwan won damages from his wife and her lover using video from the couple's robot vacuum, and the same recording earned him five months in jail, with the app working normally throughout.
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Dyson's three new robot vacuums are $550, $700 and $1,200, which makes wet cleaning a $150 step inside its own line at a moment when Gizmodo says rival flagships are pushing toward $2,000.
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The same live camera feed brought him about US$16,000 in damages and a five-month sentence for making the recording. The chain of custody for that exhibit begins with a party to the dispute.
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All three of Dyson's new Nurovi robots scan with lidar and sell at $550, $700 and $1,200, with the middle model available only to Costco members. Wired says it has not tested any of the three yet.
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The S2 Max pairs wire-free camera navigation and 48 TOPS of onboard AI with an extending edge trimmer. Whether it earns its 3,999 euro price tag depends on the length of your perimeter, rather than your lawn's acreage.
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The reviewer still had to fish USB cables and socks out of the Qrevo 2 Pro and fence off a rug by hand in the app, which is a useful way to see what the premium robovac tier has actually been selling.
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