We review a robot vacuum you can pick up for just £100
Robot vacuum cleaners are for posh people with big, expensive houses, right? They cost hundreds of pounds, right? Wrong on both counts, it seems.
Household electronics brand Vactidy has launched a new compact robot vacuum which we've found priced as low as £100. That's even cheaper than a half-decent upright vacuum. And this does the job for you.
It's the Vactidy Nimble T6, and it's by no means a cheap and nasty product. Out of the box there's a quality feel straight away, and it has all the bells and whistles of a robot vacuum costing four or five times more.
It has three levels of suction power, all the way up to 2,000pa, two spinning brushes to gather particles from the nooks and crannies, and it can take itself home to its base to charge, using on-board sensors. It even has a handheld remote control.
The Nimble T6 is also one of the most compact robot vacuums I've tested. Nimble by name, and by nature. It's only 2.89" high, and that's great for sneaking under beds and wardrobes. Or even pets.
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Using a single rotating wheel to rotate on, along with its two rubber wheels, it's also very quick to spin and rotate, which is handy in tighter areas - like my living room, for example.
The Vactidy app is rather basic compared to some, but connecting up was done in one attempt, and if you select auto cleaning mode, it gets on with the job straight away.
You can, if you like, control the vacuum through a set of directional arrows in the app, just as you would with a remote control toy, and that's handy for picking up any areas the device may have missed because, truth be told, the mapping isn't all that smart.
It does detect the difference between carpets and hard floors, which is good to see, and there are four modes, including the conventional zig-zag pattern, and a random clean pattern, which works surprisingly well.
The battery isn't the best in the business, with a 2,500mAh battery on board, but it's plenty big enough to polish off most houses in one stint.
It's fairly quiet though, with pleasant beeps to let you know it's functioning, rather than a tinny voice, and it does connect up and play nicely with Alexa, which is handy.
The app will allow you to create schedules for the auto-cleaning function, but I did find it had an annoying habit of getting stuck in some parts of my house. Its size stands against it here, and it sometimes struggles with door thresholds. This won't bother people with clear, open-plan floors, but it was a bit of a niggle for me.
The suction is powerful, and the addition of a second rotating brush does make for a nice, wide sweep, but it's fair to say the performance is better on hard floors than it is on carpets. It is, when all's said and done, hard to find a robot vacuum that does a perfect job of thick pile carpet though.
And this brings me back to the price. The Vactidy Nimble T6 is available on Amazon at the moment for £119. And we found a few new ones on eBay for just £100.
It might not be a perfect all-rounder, but if you're on a budget and you fancy letting a robot take over your least favourite job, this is a superb entry to the world of automated cleaning.
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