Top 5 Inexpensive Robotic Vacuum Cleaners 2022 | Articles | Gadgets, gifts and accessories

The demand for smart tech­nol­o­gy is grow­ing. The pop­u­lar­i­ty of smart vac­u­um clean­ers increased by 110% in 2021, and sales in the first half of 2022 increased by anoth­er 20%. Users appre­ci­at­ed smart assis­tants. With them, you can for­get about garbage col­lec­tion and car­pet clean­ing. There are mod­els on the mar­ket in dif­fer­ent price cat­e­gories — from very bud­get to very expen­sive. Today we have col­lect­ed for you the top inex­pen­sive and good robot­ic vac­u­um clean­ers for home and apart­ment.

A smart gad­get is an indis­pens­able helper around the house. Pho­to: wischroboter-saugroboter.de

How to choose the right mod­el
Kit­fort KT-5112
Kyvol D3
Xiao­mi Robot Vac­u­um Mop Essen­tial
TCL 2000
Eufy Robo­Vac G10 Hybrid

How to choose the right model

You need to pay atten­tion to:

- bat­tery capac­i­ty and clean­ing area. Typ­i­cal­ly, mod­els with a 2600 mAh bat­tery are enough for 2–3 room apart­ments up to 70 sq.m. With such a bat­tery, the device can work for 60–100 min­utes and go around the entire area 1–2 times in nor­mal mode. If the area is larg­er, you need a bat­tery from 3000 mAh;

- dust con­tain­er vol­ume. For a 1–2 room apart­ment with­out pets, 300 ml is enough. 400–600 ml is usu­al­ly enough for a fam­i­ly with a cat or dog. It is bet­ter to take a slight­ly larg­er vol­ume (350 ml+) so that dur­ing clean­ing you do not have to clean the tank sev­er­al times;

- noise lev­el. The para­me­ter is sub­jec­tive. Most mod­els in nor­mal and qui­et mode give out no more than 40 dB (as a qui­et con­ver­sa­tion). But in tur­bo mode there is more noise. If it is impor­tant that the mod­el is as qui­et as pos­si­ble, it is bet­ter to choose with a max­i­mum noise lev­el of up to 55 dB;

- if it is impor­tant to clean the car­pet — most mod­els are gen­er­al­ly not designed to clean pile longer than 1.5 cm. There­fore, a car­pet with a long pile will def­i­nite­ly have to be cleaned dif­fer­ent­ly. If the car­pet has a short pile, imme­di­ate­ly see if the vac­u­um clean­er can dri­ve on it (whether it over­comes obsta­cles of 1.5–2 cm) and whether it has a tur­bo mode. Only in this case will he be able to pull out all the dust, wool, etc. that gets stuck between the fibers.

How do cheap mod­els dif­fer from expen­sive ones?

one. The num­ber of options. For exam­ple, few­er sen­sors or they are not so accu­rate, less back­light, less voice com­mand options.

2. No mag­net­ic tape includ­ed, must be pur­chased sep­a­rate­ly. With its help, you can cre­ate “blind zones” into which the device will not enter. The vac­u­um clean­er scans the floor, col­lides with the mag­net­ic tape and regards it as an obsta­cle, a fence that can­not be dri­ven over.

3. There is no self-clean­ing func­tion. For exam­ple, Xiao­mi Vio­mi S9 has it. Includes a large dock­ing sta­tion. The gad­get comes to her, joins and all the garbage is trans­ferred to the tank in the dock itself. This is con­ve­nient if you are away on a busi­ness trip, and the robot cleans itself accord­ing to the sched­ule.

And if your bud­get is not very lim­it­ed, you can check out our selec­tion of robot­ic vac­u­um clean­ers in dif­fer­ent price cat­e­gories.

Now let’s move on to the rat­ing. All prices indi­cat­ed in the mate­r­i­al are valid at the time of writ­ing.

A bud­get robot vac­u­um clean­er copes with the main task no less qual­i­ta­tive­ly than an expen­sive one. But it has few­er addi­tion­al options. Pho­to: it.compflix.com

Kitfort KT-5112

The cheap­est robot vac­u­um clean­er from our rat­ing. This is a dry-clean­ing-only mod­el that can run up to 90 min­utes on a sin­gle charge. The vol­ume of the dust col­lec­tor is 300 ml. Not the largest, but enough for reg­u­lar clean­ing. The device itself will call at the dock­ing sta­tion upon com­ple­tion of clean­ing. The bat­tery will ful­ly charge in 4–5 hours.

Kit­fort KT-5112 has sev­er­al dri­ving modes. He can move along a giv­en route, only around the walls (handy if there is a car­pet in the cen­ter and you don’t want to touch it), in a zigzag. Using the appli­ca­tion, you can pro­gram the device to clean accord­ing to a sched­ule and accord­ing to a giv­en route. He knows how to bypass obsta­cles and deter­mine a dan­ger­ous height (for exam­ple, stairs). There­fore, it will not crash and fall.

At the most pow­er­ful suc­tion mode, the vol­ume of noise from the vac­u­um clean­er is large — 72 dB. Like a loud human voice. But there is also a qui­eter mode of oper­a­tion.

There are 2 fil­ters: coarse and fine. This allows you to get rid of both large and small debris.

Robot vac­u­um clean­er Kit­fort KT-5112 is a good and inex­pen­sive device with a min­i­mum set of nec­es­sary options. Pho­to: kitfort.ru

Kyvol D3

The mod­el is slight­ly more expen­sive than the pre­vi­ous one. Has sev­er­al dif­fer­ences:

• large capac­i­ty of the dust col­lec­tor — 600 ml ver­sus 300 ml;
• longer dura­tion of work on 1 charge — 120 min­utes ver­sus 90 min­utes. This time is enough for light clean­ing of a room up to 150 sq.m;
• longer charg­ing time — 6 hours ver­sus 4–5 hours.

The Kyvol D3 robot vac­u­um clean­er has 3 modes of oper­a­tion, with which you can dry clean hard sur­faces and car­pets (with a short pile of 1–1.5 cm). There is a spe­cial func­tion Auto Car­pet Boos — increased suc­tion pow­er. It turns on auto­mat­i­cal­ly when the vac­u­um clean­er moves to the car­pet. This allows you to bet­ter clean the dirt between the fibers.

The mod­el will eas­i­ly become part of the Smart Home ecosys­tem. You can man­age it using Ama­zon Alexa, Yan­dex Alice, Google Assis­tant or through a spe­cial Kyvol appli­ca­tion (avail­able for both Android and iOS).

The Kyvol Cybo­vac D3 robot vac­u­um clean­er is a pow­er­ful inex­pen­sive gad­get that will take care of the clean­li­ness of floors and car­pets. Pho­to: 5555.shop.by

Xiaomi Robot Vacuum Mop Essential

Xiao­mi prod­ucts are very pop­u­lar. Both in the bud­get and in the expen­sive seg­ment of var­i­ous small and large equip­ment, you can find mod­els with an opti­mal set of func­tions. Xiao­mi Robot Vac­u­um Mop Essen­tial is real­ly one of the best inex­pen­sive robot­ic vac­u­um clean­ers with dry and wet clean­ing func­tion for the home:

• fast charg­ing. For the first time, the device can be charged for a long time, up to 10 hours. But sub­se­quent charges will take 2–4 hours;
• There is both wet and dry clean­ing. For wet, you need to pour water into a spe­cial con­tain­er and attach a cloth from below (includ­ed). Water from time to time wets the fab­ric, thanks to this, wet clean­ing is car­ried out;
• the capac­i­ty of the garbage col­lec­tor is 600 ml, and the oper­at­ing time on a sin­gle charge is 90 min­utes. This is enough for clean­ing in the most pow­er­ful mode of a two- or small three-room apart­ment.

Xiao­mi Mi Robot Vac­u­um Mop Essen­tial White Robot Vac­u­um Clean­er is a styl­ish and use­ful gad­get for the home. Pho­to: 8smartphone.com

TCL 2000

Top cheap vac­u­um clean­er robots are hard to imag­ine with­out this mod­el. It is pre­sent­ed in white and black col­ors — you can choose the option that best fits into the inte­ri­or.

The vol­ume of the dust con­tain­er (600 ml), the noise lev­el (60 dB), the num­ber of modes (3) are sim­i­lar to Kyvol D3. But TCL 2000 has a few impor­tant addi­tions:

- can over­come obsta­cles up to 2 cm high (not 1.5). It is impor­tant. Since car­pets often have a high pile, there is a thresh­old between rooms that hides the joints of the floor cov­er­ing. And it is not always easy for a robot vac­u­um clean­er to over­come such an obsta­cle. TCL 2000 can han­dle them with ease;

- there is not only a reg­u­lar coarse and fine fil­ter, but also a HEPA fil­ter. What’s this? A spe­cial mem­brane, which con­sists of a porous mate­r­i­al based on fiber­glass. This is a “high-effi­cien­cy” fil­ter that traps up to 99% of dust par­ti­cles, aller­gens, and debris. Usu­al­ly such a fil­ter is installed in air puri­fiers. In com­par­i­son, a fine fil­ter is capa­ble of retain­ing from 45 to 98% of con­t­a­m­i­nants;

– this mod­el has the most capa­cious bat­tery from our top of the best robot­ic vac­u­um clean­ers – 2900 mAh. One charge will last up to 150 min­utes of con­tin­u­ous oper­a­tion.

You can con­trol the smart assis­tant through the TCL Home app. And he per­ceives voice com­mands through Google Assis­tant, Alexa, Alice.

The robot vac­u­um clean­er TCL Robot Vac­u­um Swee­va 2000 B200A White is a mod­el with a HEPA fil­ter that will clean the floor and car­pets from any dirt as much as pos­si­ble. Illus­tra­tion: TCL Pak­istan YouTube chan­nel

Eufy RoboVac G10 Hybrid

The rat­ing of inex­pen­sive robot­ic vac­u­um clean­ers is com­plet­ed by a gad­get with the func­tion of wet and dry clean­ing. This styl­ish black glossy mod­el for 14,900 is the most expen­sive in our top. Advan­tages:

• almost silent oper­a­tion — max­i­mum vol­ume of 55 dB — like a nor­mal human con­ver­sa­tion in a calm tone;
• on 1 charge it can work up to 100 min­utes, which is enough to clean an aver­age three-room apart­ment up to 80 sq.m;
• con­trol using a smart­phone — you can set up your routes, choose the time of clean­ing, deter­mine areas for clean­ing;
• makes a lot of sounds — in the event of a col­li­sion, the end of the pro­gram, mal­func­tions, an over­flow­ing tank, you will imme­di­ate­ly receive a sound sig­nal, and not just a noti­fi­ca­tion on your phone;
• auto­mat­i­cal­ly sent to the dock­ing sta­tion.

The Anker Eufy Robo­Vac G10 Hybrid robot vac­u­um clean­er is a sim­ple and use­ful device for the home. Pho­to: drohnen.de

We col­lect­ed the fea­tures of all the list­ed robot­ic vac­u­um clean­ers in one table.