The publication

About Robot Floor Guide

Robot Floor Guide helps US households choose, place and maintain robot vacuum and mop systems. The guides focus on the parts of a purchase that are easy to miss: the exact robot and station, what comes in the selected package, operating requirements and the work an owner still has to do.

Daniel Rowan is the public byline for Robot Floor Guide’s buying and setup guides. The guides compare manufacturer documents and attributed independent evidence. A recommendation may be to keep a working machine, choose a different configuration or resolve a missing requirement before buying.

This is a source-based publication. Its guides do not report hands-on product tests performed by Robot Floor Guide. When another publication’s testing informs a comparison, the article names and links to that work and keeps its model and testing limits clear.

Make the decision more specific.

A robot’s floor route, station location and ongoing care can matter as much as its headline features. We use those practical questions to organize the guide library.

Read how our guides are researched or browse the guide library.