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Vacuums and robot vacuums

Performance

What the numbers mean in day-to-day use.

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Black round robot vacuum with a raised lidar turret sitting on its dock against a pale wall — A lidar turret on the lid lets the robot map rooms instead of bouncing between obstacles at random.Photo: ajay_suresh · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons · Open source page

Two black robot vacuums on carpet with kitchen knives taped to their bumpers, power lights lit

Performance

Why a robot picks up less in month six than in week one

Pickup falls because the filter and brush load up, not because the motor weakens. The full maintenance routine costs 354 minutes a year on these figures.

Updated 3/11/2026 · 10 min

Photo: Dennis van Zuijlekom from Ermelo, The Netherlands · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons