It’s also very quiet: it has four vacuum levels, and the lowest was tolerable even while I was working in the same room. So after the bin gets full, it’ll continue to “clean” but, because it’s so full there’s dog hair and dust and what not clogging the shaft to the full bin, it’s not able to vacuum anything else up.

It's the best robot vacuum / mop hybrid and is the best of the new breed of self-cleaning, self-emptying robot vacuums.Vacuum cleaner: strong motor suction, with vacuum suction mouth, constitute powerful suction, absorb dust and garbage and hair inside the house. It is equipped with a remote control and a “Pin n Go” function, which makes it easy to direct the robot toward spots it may have missed. Roomba j9+: The j9+ cleaned well, but like the i4+ EVO, its self-emptying dock didn’t consistently remove all the debris from the bot’s bin. To test the apps and software features, I set schedules, hooked them up to voice assistants, and played with any advanced features in the app.

Where applicable, we assessed a test model’s compatibility with voice assistants like Alexa and Google Home. The 11S Max is so quiet and nimble that it fades into the background like no other robot we’ve tested.Nice-to-have features are room-specific cleaning and settings (so you can tell your vacuum just to clean the kitchen, and have it mop and vacuum the kitchen but only vacuum the living room).