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Sep 08, 2016
Neato XV-21 Pet & Allergy is your best choice in robotic vaccuums for effectiveness.
Neato is unique in the robotic vacuum market in that all they make are robot vacs. They started out in business for the sole purpose of solving the shortcomings of other brands. Most other robot vacs have high speed sweeper brush rolls, with no actual vacuum motor. Neato's vacuum motors are powerful enough to compare to better quality stick vacs. That suction power in conjunction with the very effective roller brush, gives you have a contender to replace your full size upright vacuum! Neato also has advanced navigation with their laser mapping LIDAR hardware and updatable firmware. Their bot vacs perform their job very quickly and efficiently, using an overlapping pattern in the systematic manner of a person mowing a lawn. My first Neato was the XV-11. It reliably performed in suctioning up & roller brushing in pet hair from carpeting and tile, and had enough suction force to pull in debris from slightly beyond the vac's body as it worked. I decided to replace it with the quieter and more efficient XV-21 after carefully reviewing specs and demo videos by owners and hobbyists on YouTube. Those hobbyists are battle robot enthusiasts, who for years have used the Neato chassis, with it's powerful motor, advanced circuitry, LIDAR system, memory and "all terrain" tread wheels & suspension as a sturdy, reliable base for their arena robot warriors! That says a lot right there about the quality and ability of Neato products.