When Wet Mopping pads are attached, Precision Jet Spray loosens dirt and sticky messes without spraying furniture, rugs, or walls. After much thought, I shamelessly stole a name that a friend’s daughter came up with for their robot vacuum – ladies and gentlemen, meet Csweepio. What you get here is regular maintenance cleaning: the Roomba i7+ will cope with most daily spills, but you’ll need to take out your standard vacuum cleaner once a week or so to fully deal with your home. The suction power is decent – it performed really well on all surfaces, and our house was noticeably cleaner after it had run.

That said, even if you run your Roomba i7+ daily, that adds up to a rather tiny operating cost every two to three months. While lidar powered units are reportedly quicker at this stage, unless you move home every week I can’t see how that matters in the long term, as, once it’s done, it’s done. And for others they will sound like something akin to Back to the Future’s hover boards, flying cars and self-tying laces (we’d be up for any of these please, inventors!The dust bag in the clean base is large and takes quite a long time to fill up, depending on how dirty your home is.

But the Roomba i7 came out with flying colours and removed a whopping 94% of the sand on the laminate.Smart speaker integration is very good on both devices: you can use Google Assistant or Alexa to issue commands such as “Hey Google, clean the master bedroom” and your Roomba will obey instantly. We absolutely loved this feature, as our kitchen needs much more regular vacuuming than our dining room. We set up the skill on Alexa, which we found simple to do, and very convenient if we didn’t have our phone nearby, or if someone without the app wanted to control the i7. After that, you can schedule the Roomba® i7+ Braava jet® m6 to clean certain rooms at certain times or have the robots clean an entire level of your home.

This smart vacuum cleaner can be controlled manually, via an app on your smartphone or through Alexa or Google Assistant. The robot vacuum cleaner continuously calculates the fastest route and determines very precisely where it has already been and where it has to go next.The original automated vacuums were “dumb” in that they used random navigation to bump their way around your home. The app also updates your robot with the latest software, so it’s always up-to-date with new features.