While I won’t spend much time on the other tabs as they’re straight forward and much easier to navigate, the app includes a tab for scheduling cleanings, one to see your cleaning history, as well as a maintenance tab that shows the various parts of the vacuum and their level of functionality.

Some bigger pieces of debris, like lollipop sticks and some cheese stick wrappers did not get picked up. It has a bumper that covers its front half to safely navigate with, as well as a protrusion on top that I can only assume is for its 360-degree LiDAR system. You can check out all my tests and my personal experience with the Spinwave R5 by watching the video review. Fortunately, the scuffs buffed out with a clean cloth and some cleaner, but it would be nice to see a more scuff-resistant finish in the future.It works quickly and quietly, reliably sucking up pet hair and dust from hard floors and low-pile carpeting. Other factors that we evaluated during testing included the product’s ease of use, noise level and app functionality. I have two kids and two dogs, my house is a split-level, meaning there are stairs everywhere, and we also vacuum our house maybe quarterly. Running a robot vacuum several times over the course of a week will pick up just as much as the upright based on how often we currently use it.

It’s much smaller than the SpinWave and doesn’t connect to an app, but it still does a great job removing dirt and stains from hard floors.When a vacuum cycle is done, or when the battery gets low, the vacuum finds its way back to its charging station. The charging station is composed of two pieces: a base for the R5 to sit on when not in use and the charging bay itself. There’s more than enough battery life on hand for most cleanings, and the SpinWave R5 is efficient enough that you’ll still get solid battery life with more energy taxing cleaning modes.

Its decreased diameter makes it easy for the robot to navigate in confined spaces (such as under a desk or coffee table) without getting stuck and needing to be rescued.With spinning scrubber pads and a rotating brush roll, the vacuum will pick up dirt and gunk with ease. It’s the same cleaning solution I already use for my manual Bissell SpinWave (which I also LOVE), so it makes life easy.