I have a Neato Botvac 80 and recently purchased a Roomba 880. I only used Neato in my kitchen, dining room, and laundry room/bathroom. The rest of the house, it had to work too hard and it was always getting stumped on something so I had to vacuum it with my regular vacuum. The Neato was like watching a 2 year old and I had to get up constantly. My roomba is so much better. When I first had it up and running, I put it in the most complicated room that Neato couldn't do. The room has two tables, a free standing bar, 4 bar stools, and 2 lazy boy chairs and an end table. It went through the room like a hot knife through butter and I love it MUCH more than my Neato which I will keep for about 1/3 of my house. I thought it cleaned better as well. I'll be a Roomba customer from now on.

Your analysis was excellent. I loved the way you tested everything, it was very scientific.

Thanks so much for that in depth analysis. I never would've had the patience to sit and watch a roomba for 40 minutes counting how many times it hit each square. And getting to see the neato do a whole room sped up was great.

I've been watching robot cleaning videos for two days, trying to decide which of these to buy. Your video is by far the most detailed. This is one of the first channels I've actually subscribed to in the past few days.

@HowToLou

6 жыл бұрын

+David Font - Thank you! All my videos (250) are listed by category ant HowToLou.com

I'm a new owner of a basic Roomba 650. For the first week I ran it twice a day for an hour and 20 minutes each time and dumped the canister into a standard basic plastic bag from the grocery store. The Roomba filled the bag in that week. If you can imagine the dirt and dust in the bag, you'll appreciate how happy we are with the iRobot Roomba 650. Now we run it just once a day and it shows it's worth each time.

@baixosilvio

Жыл бұрын

Verdade tenho o modelo 620 e básico mais cumpre bem o seu papel

I have watched a million of the robot vac videos to try and make a decision and this was THE BEST!!! Thank you. You got to the point and then gave a VERDICT. That is all I needed :)

thank you for giving a detailed analysis. THIS is how reviews should be! subscribed

you sir have just stopped me in my tracks from buying a robot vacume. Nice job buddy! Very thorough review. You saved me 800 hundred bucks and that deserves a like, subscribe and a comment.

wow, one of the best reviews i have ever seen. Not too long, but many tests and very thorough. I like the math and analytics too.

This must be one of the best reviews I've ever seen, especially the recording in the end of the room from the top is very helpful. Thank you very much, I know now which vacuum I should buy :-)

Wow! Now that's what I call a review!

@seherxsbahixnbgn0tkitrsogu233

3 жыл бұрын

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i dont even know how i got here watching videos on robot vacuums but this review was one of the best reviews on any product. good job.

This is probably one of the best tests I've seen of robot cleaners.

Wow...you put together a very comprehensive comparison of both robots.....excellent! As an engineer, I really appreciate your thorough review!

@HowToLou

8 жыл бұрын

+Alex S. - You caught me. I am an engineer :)

@Alex1552project

8 жыл бұрын

+HowToLou ....no wonder....!!!

Thank you Lou! This is exactly the kind of test I was looking for to help me decide.

Now we just need to figure out how to automate your Hoover and we will be set. 😆 Great video Lou!

Your video very helpful on deciding what robot vac to get. all my questions answered in one video.

This has been one of the best tutorials I've ever seen. Awesome work!

After watching many KZread videos on the Roomba and Neato, yours is the best. I especially like the coverage analysis with the color coding of squares.

The best review I have seen across any and all products. Really well done! Thank you.

I've got a Roomba 772e for my apartment and a Neato Botvac D85 for my office. Both work very well. I preferred the random navigation of the Roomba for the dynamic and changing environment of my apartment (small daughter, toys, chairs left every day in different position) and the systematic laser navigation of the Neato for the more fixed environment of my office. I'm really impressed with both devices. They definitely make a great job in reducing mine... ;)

@HowToLou

7 жыл бұрын

+Nessunego - thank you for sharing your experience. By the way, the Neato scans the room every time you start it, like it is a brand-new room. So if toys are here today and gone tomorrow, it does not care. It looks around the room, maps out the obstacles, and vacuums around them.

Thank you for this really good review! It's nice to have someone review a product objectively backed up with facts and measurements!!!

Best product review I've ever seen. I went with the neato for my home and couldn't be happier. Thanks for your work.

That is a Perfect review, the best that I ever seen. Thank you very much HowToLou... best regards from Portugal

I know its been two years since your review, but this was amazing and extremely helpful

Amazing work with the scientific analysis. I am now 100% assured what is the right choice!

Thank you for this comparison. I was getting ready to purchase one of these two brands and you just helped!

Excellent review dude. A small side note for anyone reading... I have a Romba 600 series which moves significantly slower then the 800 series shown in this video. Slower might mean it actually cleans better since the airflow is so low on a Romba. cheers.

Thanks so much for this review! It was extremely helpful in assisting me in deciding which robot vacuum to purchase!

Just the type of technical comparison I was looking for. Excellent. Thanks!

based on this vid i bought the neato. the room was much less organised and has a lot of strange curves. first i thought a lot of spots were missing, but at the end he did the whole room. it's really quite impressive so far. thank you!

Very organized and professionally done! wow - really great review!! Thanks again

Wow! This is a great video! The testing was fabulous! I've made my choice on which vacuum to get! Thanks!!!

Your a good reviewer. Your the second you tube review I've witness that prefers the neato. I found your method more precise than others. Good work.

This is so incredibly helpful. I always know that Roomba may be overcharging (paying for its heavy marketing effort, I guess), but this video just gave me the solid proof I need to buy a Neato.

Thank you for a thorough and informative review...this is how reviews should be done, nice job!

I signed in just to make a comment, UNREAL REVIEW ...well done!!

Great job! I liked the way you left the real sound of the robots unlike other reviews on youtube!

There are two kinds of brushes for Neato. Some models come with both of them, some only with the rubber brush without the bristle which is noisy. However, if you are using it on the floor where you are not at the time i.e. basement, it is helpful to know what is Neato up to. Sometimes it gets stuck and after a few beeps is it quiet. Good time to go downstairs and see what's the problem (Neato will tell you/on the screen). If the noise of using Neato with rubber brush is bothering you, you can order additional brush with rubber and bristle. Available on Amazon. You can also try to complain about the noise to the Neato company (see their website and on line communication with their consumer service person). You can use these better filters (as in the video) for very long time. Make sure you have several. You should hand-vacuum them after you empty dust bin and in-between use you can wash them with water + detergent using a surgical brush, having enough time to make sure it is dry before next use. Please note: It seems that some advertising makes you believe that you can time your vacuuming and it will be done when you return home. Perhaps a small and reasonably clean, uncluttered bachelor/studio apartment (if it doesn't get stuck and waits till you rescue it). Any place larger will not happen. Neato works well, but dust bin is not very large. Therefore, dust bin gets full rather fast and needs be to emptied - so be aware of that. Also, servicing places are not everywhere to have Neato repaired and Company is helpless, cannot give you advice where you can find the notarized shop. So, you are on your own. You will love your Neato and consider him your pet. In few days, you will talk to him like other owners do. He is not always perfect, but he is always a great help.

@HowToLou

6 жыл бұрын

+jaymart46 - Awesome additions. Thank you.

This review is **superbly** executed. Wow ! Thank you for the time and effort you put into it.

Holy cow you put some serious effort into that. Thank you so much! Hubby and I have been going back and forth for several months now about Neato vs. Roomba, and whether or not we can even justify purchasing a robot vacuum in the first place.

Thank you for the detailed review. You've made my purchasing decision a lot easier.

Wow, just the review I was looking for! Thank you! Very thorough.

Wow, thanks for putting in so much effort into this!

Great comparison!!! I just received a Neato for Christmas & I love it !!!! Does the best job ever & love how I can control it from my phone.

Very well done! Thanks for the information. This was the most useful comparison Ive seen yet. Metrics, not opinion. Excellent.

I watch a lot of reviews of different things and this review is exactly what all reviews should look like. Good job Sir!

your demonstration was spot one :-) exactly what I needed to see. thank your

speaking of a review, this is it! thanks for the time and effort you put in.

I just replaced my first Neato with another. The first lasted 4 years, running every single day. Picked up a full load of birdseed each day (we have 5 birds including a macaw parrot and 5 cats at one point). Fabulous product! I bought a new battery for the old one and it is back in service in the sunroom.

Thanks a lot, the video is super useful in Italy too! Great job and great testing! Now I definitely know which one to choose

This is one of the best review videos I've seen on KZread. - To the point, quick, no hyperbole - Compares two like things. - Smart simple tests. I already own the Neato, after doing my own research, but was reviewing these again because CostCo is selling Roomba 805 cheap. I would stick with Neato. I have lots of complaints about all Robot vacuums, but we are in the dark ages still.

Great video! You definitely changed my mind on which one to buy!

Fantastic review. Thanks for helping me decide!

Great video. Thorough but meaningful analysis

loved the detailed and scientific way you covered this review, keep it up. I am impressed and will be subscribing.

Excellent in-depth review. Thank you!

This is a great review! Thank you very much for posting.

that's a fantastic video, thank you for spending the time doing that - was very helpful to me

Excellent review. These tests were "real world." Thank you so much.

Your review was perfect. Others should strive to have such empirically-based analysis as you have done here. Kudos!

I have own a Roomba for 8 years and always wonder why it covers the floor like that. It seems to be cleaning in an organized fashion but hell breaks loose when it finds a dirty spot. It spins many times and then goes to another floor area missing a few spots. I guess it gets dizzy. I thought that mine was defective but this test shows that Roomba navigates like that. The Neato makes more sense.

now this is how a review is done! seriously

very thorough. I do product videos and know what it takes to make them. This had to take you a long time, so thank you very much for making it. This was informative and is helping me make a decision.

That was one of the best reviews I've seen. Thank you very muchl

awesome review. we have the newer neato, its been running 5x a week for year now. gets stuck now and then if we leave a power cord out or house slipper off shoe rack. otherwise it is fantastic to come home and empty the bin once a week. we have two dogs and wife has long hair, neato takes care of it all. I do have to clean bearing off roller as the only con.

best review I've seen in a while, good job!

Good comparison test between the two devices, very informative.

Wow, great review video! Thank you for helping me decide on the vacuum. :)

Interesting review. As a roomba 560 owner I would like to point out that on a hard level surface the 560 has never left dirt behind as the 880 did. Only times I witnessed anything similar is on uneven surfaces. Using spot clean on a 560 disables dirt detection, which, I imagine, would also be true for the 880. My experience of the 560 on carpets are generally positive, provided the carpet fringes are short. Long fringes inevitably gets wrapped around the brushes which causes the 560 to halt and regurgitate the fringes leading to dust to not be effectively removed from long fringes. Carpet materials varies and mine are home weaved. As such they might not serve as ideal examples. I nevertheless find it somewhat unplausible that a working 880 would be inferior to a 560 in cleaning. My 2¢

thanks for doing this video, very straight forward and well done.

Very impressive how thorough you were. I would have been interested to also see how they performed with picking up dog hair, and how clogged the brushes of each became (and then how easy they are to clean off).

@HowToLou

8 жыл бұрын

+David Gulbransen - Good point. I forgot to cover that, but it is pretty much a non-issue on both vacs. We flip them over, every couple months, pop out the roller brush (5 seconds. No screws) and clean off the hair. One is no more or less clogged than the other. Roomba's roller takes about 10 seconds to pop back in. Neato's takes more like 20, because you have to get one end under a little belt. We have two long-haired cats and a long-haired teen. If you have more hair, you might clean the rollers a little more often. Thanks for the comment.

Wow, I can't thank you enough for such a thorough review!

Your analysis is awesome, thank you!

Now this is a great video ordered a Neato because of it!

Thank for the excellent review. appreciate the hard work yove done, it was very helpful for my purchase !!!

Thanks for doing a more scientific comparison than most! Other reviews seem to just parrot the companies’ marketing materials, for the most part. I’d love to see how the Neato stacks up against the new Roomba 980, which uses vSLAM to map out the rooms via video camera. By the way, I’ve owned two Roombas and a Scooba in the past, and they all needed replacement batteries fairly often, so if the Neato has the same problem, I wouldn’t be surprised.

@HowToLou

8 жыл бұрын

+macnlz - Interesting! It sounds like the competition from Neato finally got the Roomba engineers to wake up and make a robot that actually thinks about where it is going instead of just bouncing randomly around the room. I wonder if they also raised their game in the suction and cleaning department? Those were really the most important differences I found. Yeah, both bots seem to ship with cheap batteries. I replaced the Romba's already

Fantastic review. Review everything. Review my life choices please.

@HowToLou

7 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Ok, here is a quick review on life choices. Choose veggies over junk food. Don't exercise. Find a physical activity you love so much that you will do it a lot and not even realize you are exercising. As much as possible do things because they are fun. Never think you are better or worse than anyone. Just be you.

@theCreativeAssemblymachinimas

7 жыл бұрын

please, i really need to hire you as life coach. I am serious.

@IFBBProCalebWalker

5 жыл бұрын

Pavel Dvořák lol

The best test I have ever seen! I think I am going for hoover :-D

Best review I have seen on here and exactly what I wanted to know. I am wondering how others may compare now to the Neato.

I really enjoyed your scientific methodology, especially in your sky-view camera and showing how many times it hit each spot. I subscribed to your channel based off of this video.

Nice test man! keep up the good work!

Thanks a lot. I bought neato yesterday beside roomba, just because store manager recommended it. But I wasn't sure about my choice till I watched this video . Спасибо!

Simple review but done perfectly. Thanks

Never seen anyone doing a product review this serious and with important facts. Great work :)

Very nice and well done review. Thank you!

The airflow/trash bag test was a great idea!

Thanks for this review. Very thorough and informative :)

One of the best reviews I have ever seen

Great comparison. Thanks for making this.

Impressive and very comprehensive testing. Very well done. :)

Great video, and great review. Very helpful​. Thanks.

Roomba 595 pet series does my whole first floor, 2 bedrooms, 1 living room, 1 kitchen, 1 bathroom, 1 hallway, 1 entrance way. I haven't needed to vacuum myself since getting roomba

@awesomelife3710

6 жыл бұрын

bruce e That’s been my experience with my ten year old 500 series Roomba, which is still going strong: downstairs foyer, living room, dining room, kitchen, library, and bathroom, all with one charge.

Had this been the roomba with dirt detector the results would of been much more informative. That said I love the squares laid out on the floor to determine cleaning, well done.

I bought a Neato eight years ago and it's still going strong. It's the most powerful robot vacuum on the market. I'm looking for a hardwood floor wet mopper now.

@Biggrittz

7 жыл бұрын

Castaway I robot scooba

very smart advanced comparison. thanks

Thanks a million for this Sir. Excellent comparison.

Hands down Professional review ! Thank you!

That was an incredible video comparing multiple metrics

A fantastic review. This video may have saved a ton of money for me as I am looking for a gift for my mom's 60th Birthday. I know Neato is loud but hey, we need great performance from vacuum cleaners!