The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Robot Vacuum
Buying a robot vacuum can feel a bit like navigating a maze these days. With so many models boasting different features, it's easy to get lost in the options. But fear not - we're here to guide you through the process of choosing the right robot vacuum for your home.
Contents
1. Custom Cleaning and Scheduling
2. Easy-to-use App and Voice Control
Things to Consider Before Buying a Robot Vacuum
• Cleaning Performance
1. Suction Power
The suction power of a robot vacuum, measured in Pascals (Pa), determines its ability to effectively pick up dirt, dust, and debris. The stronger suction power generally indicates more powerful dust picking and cleaning ability. Dust pickup rate indicates the ability to actually pick up dirt. The rate is recommended to be 95% and above when choosing a robot vacuum.
It's also important to balance suction power with battery life and noise level. Stronger suction power generally drains the battery faster and creates louder noise. For a quiet cleaning, pay attention to the noise level under 65 decibels.
Tapo RV Max Series comes with a powerful 5300 Pa suction power, ideal for different floor types, and it is much higher than the market average of 2,000-3,000 Pa. Exclusive DeepVac™ technology, featuring a redesigned air inlet angle, optimized main brush, and air ducts, achieves a dust pickup rate of over 97%, ensuring smooth, clog-free airflow. The maximum suction power is as high as 5300 Pa, but the working volume is only 52 dB in quiet mode, which significantly reduces the annoyance to people and pets while in use.
2. Self-emptying Capability
Self-emptying feature is a game-changer, as the auto-empty dock can automatically suck out the dirt from the robot vacuum dustbin after cleaning to keep your hands free. It generally comes with a 3L, 4L, or even larger dust bag. What you have to do is to replace the bag when it gets full, generally about once a month. This keeps allergens locked up the entire time.
Tapo RV Max Plus is equipped with a smart auto-empty dock with 17000 Pa super suction. The self-emptying debris removal rate is up to 95%#. Dust stays out of sight for up to 2 months# with a disposable 3L large sealed dust bag.
3. Mopping Features
Most robot vacuums come with the mopping feature. But not all mops are created equal. It’d better to identify the mopping robot vacuums that could get up dried-on stains like soy sauce and ketchup, and clean up water drain without messing themselves up. Consider opting for an auto robot vacuum with mopping feature. Not only does this save time, but mopping also helps pick up those tiny particles that can trigger allergies.
Tapo RV Max Series provide three water flows to suit different floor types with consistent and steady water pressure, delivering a cleaner hard floor than the traditional mopping module with a fixed water flow. It can well clean water stains and air-dried colored liquids such as soy sauce.
4. Filter System
An efficient HEPA (High-Efficiency Particulate Air) filter is crucial for creating a pristine living environment at home. It excels at capturing 99.97% of airborne particles as small as 0.3 microns, including common allergens, purifying air and keeping surfaces clean. For optimal cleaning performance, pay attention to the filter in the dustbin.
• Intelligence
1. Mapping and Navigation
The mapping and navigation technology, serving as the eyes and brain of the robot vacuum, determines how smoothly and effectively a robot vacuum navigates and maps your home. The robot vacuum with mapping and navigation technology can create a detailed map of your home's layout, including rooms, furniture, and obstacles. It lets you send the robot vacuum to clean specific rooms or zones rather than the whole house, ensuring the efficient cleaning without missing spots.
Tapo RV Max Series utilizes Mesh Grid™ to automatically explore and clean your home in neat rows for a more comprehensive and thorough clean, effectively preventing missed spots. Tapo RV30 Max Series with LiDAR and IMU navigation maps every inch of your home, detecting even small obstacles with high precision, and even work well in the dark. Tapo RV20 Max Series is equipped with the MagSlim LiDAR Navigation that adopts the mini-dToF LiDAR sensor sunk into the interior of the robot to map and navigate. This provides the robot access beneath lower cabinets and beds to clean harder-to-reach areas.
2. Obstacle Crossing
Door thresholds or door bars are commonly seen in our home. If the robot vacuum cannot get over the thresholds or obstacles, the cleaning will end in a small area instead of an entire home. The threshold height can range from 6 mm to over 25 mm, so check the ability to cross the thresholds or obstacles when choosing a robot vacuum.
Most robot vacuums can only cross threshold heights of up to 20 mm. Tapo RV Max Series can overcome the high thresholds of up to 22 mm, which is better than most robot vacuums on the market.
3. Obstacle Avoidance
What's the use of a powerful vacuum if it's constantly getting stuck or bumping into furniture? The obstacle avoidance capacity is one of the things that determines the intelligence of a robot vacuum. Robot vacuums with smart obstacle avoidance can effectively and intelligently navigate around furniture, walls, and other obstacles, ensuring a thorough and efficient cleaning. From traditional, LiDAR, Line Laser, 3D ToF to Visual obstacle avoidance, choose the right one based on your cost and needs.
• Convenience
1. Custom Cleaning and Scheduling
For a truly customized experience, seek out robot vacuum with smart features and personalized preferences to totally free your mind and hand.
-Personalized Schedules: Scheduling is useful to sync the robot vacuum’s routine to your daily habits. It can start cleaning automatically when you finish meals or leave home. Forget the cleaning and routine your daily life.
- Virtual Walls, No-Go Zones, and Carpet Areas: Set up areas you don't want the robot vacuum to go, such as kids’ play areas or bedrooms in use. These are crucial if you have delicate objects or areas in your home that regularly trap robot vacuums.
-Multi-Room Cleaning: Accurately recognize different floors faster with multiple local-stored maps. You don’t need to manually switch the map.
- Selected Room Cleaning: Mark off specific areas for your robot vacuum to clean. Customize different vacuuming modes, mopping modes, and cleaning schedules for each room. Personalize the cleaning greatly improves the cleaning performance.
- Furniture-Focused Cleaning: Simply tap on the furniture on the map to quickly start cleaning the furniture area and its surrounding area.
Feature images from Tapo RV Max Series
2. Easy-to-use App and Voice Control
A good app helps easily connect your robot vacuum to W-Fi, create your home map, add virtual wall/carpet aeras, scheduling, or specify cleaning settings for each room. You can better control and manage robot vacuums with an easy-to-use app. For Tapo RV Max Series, you can also view a 3D schematic of your home's rooms and furniture at a glance. Intelligent algorithms allow you to control products throughout the house with just a tap!*
If you have Amazon Alexa or Google Home, pair with them to control the robot vacuum with simple voice commands. A series of Alexa custom skills are specially built for users to easily control how and when to start cleaning. Enjoy hands-free living.
3. Care and Maintenance
To maintain the best performance, you will need to regularly clean and replace the parts of the robot vacuums. It is important to be able to buy replacement parts to replace and have access to good support in case your robot vacuum has a serious issue.
Robot vacuums excel at keeping your floors clear of dust or pet hair. When choosing the best robot vacuum, focus on cleaning performance, intelligence, and convenient features. Look for models with strong suction power, advanced mapping and navigation, and smart capabilities like automated emptying and scheduling. By considering these key factors, you can find the ideal robot vacuum that meets your needs and seamlessly integrates into your daily routine.
‡Based on internal testing by Tapo Lab. Actual results are subject to change due to usage and environmental factors.
*3D house mapping requires updating to the latest Tapo app on tablet devices.
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