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The Neato Robotic Vacuum has been receiving great reviews since its recent introduction to the market, and promises to be the first robot vacuum to give the Roomba some serious competition in the popular robotic vacuum cleaner market. The Neato seems to do everything the Roomba can do, and possibly better.
The Neato relies on powerful vacuum suction and a Room Positioning System that allows the Neato to map out a room and plan the best approach. This eliminates the need for 'Lighthouse' units such as with the Roomba vacuums to tell the robot vacuum to finish one room before moving to the next. Neato recognizes the wisdom of this for itself.
While the Neato lacks a sidebrush -a lack much touted by the Roomba diehards- the Neato's powerful vacuum suction and ability to get right into corners may make the purported lack irrelevent. An additional benefit of Neato's reliance on vacuum power as opposed to brushes is less maintenance. The bane of the Roomba is the frequent need to clean the brushes.
Neato does move slower than the Roomba. Combined with the high vacuum power, this allows the Neato to deep clean in a single pass, rather than needing to go over each area five different times as the Roomba does to get it clean.
The squared-off front of the Neato allows it to vacuum right into the corners, again using its single brush, slow deep-cleaning movement and powerful suction to draw in corner debris much as an upright vacuum cleaner would. To be fair, an upright vacuum doesn't typically do a phenomenal job cleaning along wall edges and in corners.
The Neato robot vacuum starts off with a superior concept than the Roomba. The Roomba is a random creature, humming mindlessly along and vacuuming floors clean mostly by luck. The Neato is a smart robot.
The Neato robot vacuum seeks input on its own, interprets the data it discovers and reacts accordingly. It adapts to its environment and remains constantly aware of changes in that environment to which it must re-adapt. If the Neato is busily vacuuming a room and an obstacle is suddenly placed in front of it, the Neato will simply go around it and reroute its course.
The Neato isn't a blind robot randomly bumping its way around your house doing its thing. It knows what it has to do, where all it has to go, and the Neato plans its mission intelligently.
Neato will probably do a better job on your floors than you have generally been doing, and so will likely need a helping hand the first time or two that it does its rounds. It will likely suck up quite a lot of debris, and may need its bin changed before it can finish the job.
This is normal with robotic floor vacuums the first time or two it is used. Moving forward you should be able to leave the Neato unattended and merely empty the bin once at some point after each use.
A really neat feature of the Neato made possible by the advanced mapping system is that it remembers what it has done. This not only prevents it from wasting energy repeating itself, but if the Neato should be near to running out of juice before completing its chores, the robot vacuum will return to its charging base and recharge a bit. Thirty to sixty minutes later, the Neato will return to where it left off at, overlap on what it had already done just a tiny bit to be sure, and then continue on with its unfinished work!
This is normal with robotic floor vacuums the first time or two it is used. Moving forward you should be able to leave the Neato unattended and merely empty the bin once at some point after each use.
A really neat feature of the Neato made possible by the advanced mapping system is that it remembers what it has done. This not only prevents it from wasting energy repeating itself, but if the Neato should be near to running out of juice before completing its chores, the robot vacuum will return to its charging base and recharge a bit. Thirty to sixty minutes later, the Neato will return to where it left off at, overlap on what it had already done just a tiny bit to be sure, and then continue on with its unfinished work!
Neato XV-11 Price: S$838
Neato XV-11 smart robotic vacuum cleaner
What's in the Box:
- Neato XV-11 robot vacuum
- charging base
- power adapter
- batteries
- boundary markers
- filter replacement package
- quick start guide & user guide
- 6 months warranty
What's in the Box:
- Neato XV-11 robot vacuum
- charging base
- power adapter
- batteries
- boundary markers
- filter replacement package
- quick start guide & user guide
- 6 months warranty
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