About Best Robot Vacuums

Best Robot Vacuums is an independent directory of robot vacuum brands. It does not make, sell or repair robots itself.

How a brand gets listed

A listing is a real company that makes or sells its own robot vacuums, checked on its website before it is added. Retailers, review sites, comparison pages and affiliate sites are left out, because they sell or rank other companies' robots. One brand gets one entry: a company with several country sites or shop domains is listed once.

Category membership needs evidence. A brand joins Self-Emptying Docks because it sells a robot with an emptying base, joins Pet Hair Specialists because it designs for fur and says so, and joins Budget Robot Vacuums because it sells a robot at that price. We do not infer those things from a product photo or a model name.

How the write-ups are written

Almost every write-up is built from the brand's own published pages: its robot range, product pages, dock and accessory pages, support and warranty pages. It reports what the brand says, attributes the brand's own claims to it, and marks what the brand leaves out. We have not tested these robots in our own homes, and the write-ups do not pretend otherwise.

Five well-known brands, Dyson, Bosch, Xiaomi, Vileda and Yujin Robot (iClebo), block automated reading of their websites. Their write-ups are built instead from named third-party pages, such as retailers, press coverage and published reviews, and each fact is attributed to the page it came from. A price quoted that way is that retailer's price, not the brand's. A brand whose own site we cannot read and for which no solid outside source exists is not listed, however well known it is.

How listings are ordered

Within a category, the robot vacuum brands most shoppers already recognize are listed first. Star ratings, where shown, come from visitors.

Money

Brands are not charged to be listed. Some outbound links are affiliate links, which means we may earn a commission if you buy after clicking. That does not change which brands are listed or what their write-ups say.

Suggestions and corrections

If a brand is missing, you can suggest it through the submission form. If a listing has a fact wrong, or a brand has changed its range, send a note through the contact form. It is the only way to reach us.