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How the technology works, what a specification actually measures, and which machine fits which garden, written from the same published figures the rankings are scored on.
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How to measure a lawn, what a maker's rated area means, how much margin to leave, and which robot mowers we list suit a small, a medium or a large garden.
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Lift the mop, leave it at the dock or steer round the rug: what each robot vacuum we list does at a carpet edge, and what the makers' millimetres measure.
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Which window robots fit your glass, how they hold on when the power fails, what the rope and the backup battery are for, and which ranking to open next.
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Which robot vacuums we list carry a camera, what their makers state about the images, the incidents reported so far and how to buy one without a lens.
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Makers cross out prices all year, so a Black Friday tag needs a reference: nine days of our price log, the EU's thirty-day rule and the models to watch.
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The published heights of the robot vacuums we list, grouped by what they fit under, from the lowest at 80 mm to the tallest at 120 mm.
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When to stop, how to store the battery, what to do with the dock and RTK antenna, and what to check in spring, according to Segway Navimow and Mammotion.
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What decides whether a robot vacuum copes with pet hair: the brush, what the robot sees and where the hair goes, from the makers' own specifications.
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Robot vacuum obstacle avoidance from the makers' own figures: bumper, structured light, cameras and depth sensors, and which machines we list have which.
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Roborock against Dreame, every robot vacuum of both scored by the same engine: who wins which ranking, where the two differ and which to buy.
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Which robot vacuum climbs a 2, 3, 4 or 5 cm door threshold? The makers' own figures for every model we list, ordered by single step and double step.
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The four ways a robot vacuum mops, what each does on carpet and at the skirting, which machines use which, and how our mopping subscore treats them.
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The five jobs a robot vacuum dock can do, which machines we list do which, what the dust-bag interval means and which dock you actually need.
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The robot vacuums under $500 with a self-emptying dock, ranked by manufacturer specifications and American store prices, and what the next $100 adds.
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A slope rating is a percentage, not degrees. What 45%, 55% and 80% look like in a garden, why driven wheels decide, and which mowers are rated for what.
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How the three wire-free positioning systems work, where each one fails, and which to choose for an open lawn, a tree-covered garden or a steep one.
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