The best robot vacuum cleaners have been repeatedly knocking the paint off our skirting boards and inadvertently smearing dog plop around our floors for a good few years now, yet they remain a central facet of the smart home space. According to Grand View Research, these domestic bots aren’t going anywhere anytime soon. The firm’s latest data valued the global robotic vacuum cleaner market at almost $5 billion (£3.9bin) in 2021, a number which is estimated to grow annually by 23% by 2030.
So why are these clumsy wall-bashing floor suckers so popular? For starters, they take away the burdensome chore of vacuuming (and more recently, mopping on some models) for anyone who doesn’t have a cleaner (most of us, I suspect) and they’re especially useful for those with busy lifestyles who just aren’t home often enough to thoroughly clean.
