Buying guides
Full walkthroughs for each aisle — what to buy, what to skip, and how to read the ribbons on a product card. Click a guide to open the whole article.
Window
How to pick a window robot
These machines stick to glass with a fan, spray or mist, and wipe a path. Size, safety, and a pad dock matter more than the Pa number.
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Lawn
How to pick a robot mower
They nibble a little every day. The table is the map: how it knows the edge, how much lawn, and whether it can climb.
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Pool
How to pick a pool robot
The table is the map: cord vs battery, then floor, walls, waterline, or skim. A skimmer is not a vacuum.
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Floor
How to pick a floor robot
The pascal number is marketing. The table’s mop column and the dock checks are the product.
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Toys
How to pick a robot for a kid (or a desk)
Decide whether they program it, or it talks back. Age and a tablet rule matter more than the word “AI.”
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Pet
How to pick a litter robot
This aisle is cat litter boxes only. Globe, open-top, rake, or a flush to a drain — the cat has to accept it.
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Patrol
How to pick a patrol robot
Cameras that roll. You drive them, or they loop a map. They do not vacuum.
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Other
Arms, grills, and the rest
Desktop arms, grill cleaners, and machines that don’t fit the other aisles.
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Humanoid
How to pick a humanoid robot
Most of these walk. Few of them do housework. Buy the job: research kit, warehouse pilot, or a home machine you pre-order.
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