Whether you’re working full time, looking after your newborn or busy with other tasks around the house, a robot vacuum is the perfect solution for keeping your floors clean. However, everyone’s lifestyle is not the same, nor is their house layout, floor type or cleaning requirements!

That’s why when it comes to purchasing a robot vacuum there’s several things you need to consider, and we’re here to take you through everything you need to know so you can confidently choose the best robot vacuum for your home.

Benefits of Owning a Robot Vacuum

Aside from the obvious ‘vacuums your floors so you don’t have to’, we’re going to fill you in on a few key benefits that are commonly overlooked when shopping for robot vacuums.

All-Terrain Cleaning

All of our robots can effortlessly transverse between hard floors, carpets, rugs and more in one fluid motion. They can even cross obstacles like doorsills up to 20mm, to go between rooms without being interrupted.

Advanced Filtration (Healthier Home)

With high efficiency filters, your robot will reduce airborne triggers, such as dust particles and allergen particles, while vacuuming. And better still, majority of our robot vacuums have washable filters to help cut down on running costs as you purify your home.

Saves You Time

With everything from one-touch operation to remote scheduled cleaning, these set and forget vacuums are designed to keep your floors looking their best and save you valuable time in the process.

Easy To Store

Offering full battery-powered operation, these cordless vacuum cleaners provide a non-invasive alternative to stick vacuums and bulkier machines, particularly in small homes or apartments with limited storage space.

No Such Thing As Hard-To-Reach

Thanks to its compact, rounded shape, and seriously low-profile, a robot vacuum can fit in those tight spaces your vacuum can’t – like under the couch or behind the bed with ease.

Features To Consider

This is where your cleaning preferences come in. Whether you love to come home to freshly cleaned floors, or you have too much to do over the weekend, the following features might help you identify what you’re looking for in a robot vacuum.

Self-Docking & Self-Charging

Majority of our robot vacuums come with self-charging functionality - meaning when your robot is running low of power, it will identify how far away the charging unit is and reserve enough power to make it back before it turns off. However, some of our models come with internal memory during the self-docking procedure that will keep track of where it was up to during its cleaning routine, and once it’s fully charged it will continue right where it left!

App Integration

This is where the magic happens. A wide range of our robot vacuums now come with built-in app integration. This allows you to completely control your robot from your smartphone 24/7 and from absolutely anywhere in the world. Here you can program things like scheduled cleaning, virtual boundaries to prevent your robot from entering restricted areas or going beyond the designated cleaning area, the ability to monitor battery life, check where your robot has been and so much more. If you find yourself out of the house a lot, this is a must-have feature you NEED to consider.

(Optional) Mopping Feature

If you’re purchasing a robot vacuum due to poor time management or you don’t want to spend your free time cleaning the floors, then you’ll love to hear that many robots now comes with mopping capabilities! Utilising an innovative electronic water pump and reservoir system, these robots vacuum and mop simultaneously ensuring you truly never have to lift a finger.

Anti-Collision & Stair Safe Technology

If you’re renting, living in a two-story home or have a lot of fragile objects at ground level, several of our robots feature anti-collision and anti-fall sensors that protect your belongings – including your fur babies – and your robot from accidental damage.

Virtual Wall & No-Go Zones

Rather than building your own barricades out of pillows, chairs and so on, you’ll be pleased to know that all of our robots come with a virtual wall feature that restricts the robot from entering undesired areas. Depending on the model, this feature can either be a physical wall unit that creates an infrared barrier the robot cannot cross or is solely controlled via your smartphone, which can be taken one-step further with virtual no-go zones.

Mapping Technology

Rather than building your own barricades out of pillows, chairs and so on, you’ll be pleased to know that all of our robots come with a virtual wall feature that restricts the robot from entering undesired areas. Depending on the model, this feature can either be a physical wall unit that creates an infrared barrier the robot cannot cross or is solely controlled via your smartphone, which can be taken one-step further with virtual no-go zones.

Final Factors

Budget

At Godfreys our robot vacuums come in a variety shapes and sizes and at prices as low as $199. Depending on your cleaning preferences, this is where you need to consider what features are important to you. For the low price point of $199, the Hoover Performer Plus comes with intelligent path judgement technology to minimise obstacle collisions, a virtual wall unit to restrict the cleaning area and remote control operation – however, you will miss out on smartphone connectivity, self-docking and self-charging functionality, along with mapping technology, anti-collision and anti-fall sensors and the mopping feature, with models starting at $399 to cater for these needs.

Home Size

Whenever you think ‘home size’, try and see this as a ‘how long will it take me to clean my floors’ point of view. This approach can help you identify the best robot based on their battery life. For example, our Hoover Performer Plus has a run time of up to 45 minutes, which is perfect for small apartments, units or townhouses. Whereas the Hoover Ranger Robot offers a run time of up to 90 minutes. Far better equipped to clean medium sized homes or larger surface areas in one sitting. And for larger households we have the Ecovacs Ozmo 950, offering a run time of up to 200 minutes – this robot vacuum can clean your entire home multiple times over on a single charge.

Shouldn't Replace A Vacuum

It should be noted that a robot vacuum should not directly replace your barrel, upright or stick vacuum. These other machines can clean more effectively with stronger suction strength, anti-asthma and allergy filtration systems, larger capacities to effectively pickup everything from microscopic dust particles to larger debris and so on.

View the vast range of robot vacuums available at Godfreys online or instore today!