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Best cheap robot vacuums in 2024
Keep the cost low, while still enjoying a powerful and efficient clean
Robot vacuums are an excellent way to keep your home floors neat and tidy, but some of the best models on the market can cost upwards of $500. Fortunately, though, you don’t need to spend nearly that much dough to score an awesome robot vac. In fact, some of our favorite self-efficient bot sweepers can be had for $250 or less. For our intents and purposes, we’ll call these models “cheap robot vacuums,” with cheap referring exclusively to price and not overall performance.
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They may not be the most technically impressive development in recent years, but smart vacuums are sure one of the neatest: friendly little rolling robots that automate one of the more tedious domestic chores. The Roborock S4 Max is a particularly robust model: it's got room mapping and finds its way with lasers, and it can clean for up to three hours straight. You can get one for cheaper than ever today on Amazon.The S4 Max, in addition to its lidar navigation and marathon battery life, is smart enough to know when it needs to top up its battery mid-cleaning. After recharging, it remembers where it stopped cleaning and goes back to that spot to continue. You can also set it not to clean certain areas, if you have a room with a particularly finicky rug or a bunch of loose cables or something.
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Wyze has made its name in the US by offering competent smart home hardware for startlingly little money—$20 for a camera, $50 for a smart thermostat, and so on. The $250 Wyze Robot Vacuum is by far its most expensive product, but it's still cheap compared to the competition. This device sports full 3D mapping, scheduling, and it's got an app that isn't terrible. Most importantly, it does a very good job cleaning, assuming you don't mind a little noise. Unfortunately, you can't control this device with Google Assistant, but that's one of the few drawbacks.
Still manually cleaning your floors like some kind of chump? Get with the program. Here in the future, we've got robots to do that sort of thing. And just for today, two such robots are on sale at Amazon: Roborock's S5 and and E4 smart vacuums are $120 and $65 off their regular going rates.The pricier Roborock S5 is currently $360, down from a normal price of $480. It's actually a vacuum and a mop in one, so it'll clean your hard and soft floors equally well. If you're just looking for a vacuum, the E4's got you covered for significantly less — it's $195, down from its typical $259.99.
If you're still pushing around a manual vacuum on a regular basis (or living in filth because you don't want to do that), this giveaway is for you. Up for grabs are ECOVACS DEEBOT robot vacuums, normally $229, but free for 3 AP readers. The rest of you who aren't so lucky can take advantage of an exclusive, limited time $50 off coupon. We live in an amazing time in which relatively affordable robots can clean stuff off of the floor while we spend our time doing better things like reading our favorite tech blog. ECOVACS is one of the industry's leaders in bringing high quality and affordable automatic vacuums to the masses.