When people think about the best robot vacuums for pet owners, they’re mostly zeroing in on pet hair pickup (i.e. performance on carpet, and maybe the self-emptying aspect for the allergy-havers). But there’s another feature showing up on more and more robot vacuums that is a game-changer for pet parents — but it has nothing to do with suction power. It’s the ability to check in remotely on your household with a livestream camera on the front of the robot vacuum, and it has become one of my favorite features throughout all the robot vacuums I’ve tested.
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This really speaks to the middle of the Venn diagram between clean freak pet parents and anxious pet parents — what I can only assume is a pretty populous overlap. If your helicopter pet parent senses start tingling the second you leave the door, such a robot vacuum might be a more comforting purchase than a stick vacuum. The brain behind the cordless vacuum leaves when the person leaves home, but that’s not the case with robot vacuums. The ones with a camera can show you a livestream POV of everything the robot vacuum sees as it’s cleaning your home, offering a more ambulatory way to keep tabs on the home’s goings-on than a stationary pet camera.
My built-in pet sitter.
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