Neato D7 vs Roomba S9+ Compared & Tested

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The Neato robots are the best. It's so sad to see them out of the market today. D shape, powerful suction, top navigation and great app. Top robovac.

To bad about Neato. I love our old D5. I appreciate the gentle navigation option. It's upstairs now and replaced by Roomba thanks to auto empty bin and a Labrador! Anything without an auto empty bin is practically useless with a dog.

S9 plus or Dyson 360?

Damn it I’m getting old!

Great review. One aspect that I think you should have covered is cleaning time. I have both of these robots. My experience has been that the iRobot takes 3 to 4x as long to clean a given floor as the Neato. With all of the recharging required to vacuum one of my floors, it's not unusual to take four to six hours to vacuum a floor with the iRobot. Neato can do the whole thing in less than an hour on a single charge.

This is really great.

The Neato D7 was my first and has so far been my only robotic vacuum and while I think it does a great job in terms of cleaning the floors it can be an absolute pain in the ass to get it consistently going between jobs. If I so much as shift a chair a few inches from across the room from where it's docked it can cause the D7 to be unable to recognize the floor plan and refuse to run. Sometimes nothing in the room has changed at all and it still can't figure out where it's at. Occasionally it'll even kick off from the base, realize it doesn't know where it is, and continue to joy ride around the house looking for the base it was 6 inches from when it started. Every couple months I'll need to have it spend hours remapping the entire house and redo all the zones and no-go lines because of some minor change to the room it's based in.

Since this has been my only experience with robotic vacuums I'm unsure whether this is unique to the Neato software or is something all robotic vacuums struggle with but I find it hard to image they'd be as popular as they are if they were as frustrating as my experience with the D7.

It would be great if you could add a "practicality" or "software" test to these reviews to try to identify the limits of these vacuums mapping software. That's honestly the most important thing to me as I don't have a room I can designate to a robot that will never change.

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So, I recently switched from the Neato D7 to the Roomba S9+ and I'm finding the change to be a mixed bag. I've got roughly 700 sq ft of room to clean. There are a number of obstacles in terms of chairs and furniture. The D7 would do it in roughly 1.5 hrs. It takes more than double that with the S9+. From the look of things, the S9+ has trouble negotiating a forest of chair legs and tight areas that the D7 could deal with fairly well. I find that the Roomba has some advantages, including cleaning under skirted couches along with the dustbin collector, and it kind of handles fringed carpets better - kind of. The S9+ has a harder time getting up onto the carpets though - it tends to push or fold over loose carpets rather than climbing them. The S9 is also shorter, so it gets under some kickers on appliances better. Overall, I think the Neato D7 does a better job of sucking up dirt (as long as the filter is clean). One aspect that never gets covered is robot maintenance. This is where I think Roomba wins. The Neato D7 had been in a number of times for servicing and finally gave up the ghost. There is no way to repair/replace wear and tear items like wheels but Roomba supplies them. Finally, there should be some further mention on filters. I think only the Dyson has done away with this - and the others need to follow suit. Filters get clogged, need regular monthly replacement (or sooner some times) and decrease overall performance as they get used.

Having owned 3 different Roomba botvac's over the years and One Neato I speak from experience. The Neato as an overall product is light years ahead of Irobot. If Neato runs into a navigation issue ( gets lost) it switches to self-navigation until it position on the navigation map. This usually is a matter of under a minute. You can see Neato " look around ( turs slowly left than right) using its forward facing visual camera. Having both camera vision and Lidar make the difference. Cleaning in a darker room is difficult for a Roomba, not even an issue for Neato. Another advantage is Neato Robotics has toll-free 7 days a week tech support if you ever need it and it is free. Neato is far from perfect, but if it isn't the better Botvac why did Roomba copy and go from round robots to D shaped like Neato always has? Just my thoughts.

The Neato D7 absolutely shits on the S9+.

Is this man a Boomer because who the hell still has carpet in their house

What about along walls? My Neato D7 leaves dust, crumbs, and other debris along the walls. Is the brush too short?

After a year we regret getting the Neato D7. Wish we had gone with the S9. We have a small faux wood floor apartment with few to no cracks, yet the D7 left loads of dirt and debris along all edges, so much so that we had to get a hand vac to pick that up. It also either cleaned even less in soft-touch mode, or shoved tables and lamps around in strong mode, making it just as terrible at cleaning in all modes. We narrowly missed some broken pots and vases. If you look at their tests, there is little to no debris on the edges, and in some the boundary boxes can be seen being shoved around by the Neato. That isn't a good test of edge cleaning. If you've never had another cleaning robot, maybe the Neato would be good for you, but when our old iRobot was doing a better job of cleaning than this new D7, it's time to go back to iRobot.

Am I the only one who thinks about privacy? Are these camera robots completely discreet or can you wake up one day with your nude videos on popular porn sites?

The one big big big disadvantage of Neatos is the emptying. It is a bitch. Put on your surgical mask and gloves and then get a vacuum cleaner to clean the area where you emptied it. It is so badly designed, that you really shouldn't get one just for that reason.

I've had 4 neatos and even 4th one D3+is starting to make weird noises and it is about 8months old.
Its cleaning really grate, a fantastic cleaning machine. I would say if u run it 3 times a week its as good as regular vacuum cleaner. BUT, its a notorious furniture destroyer - say goodbye to chair legs and furniture corners where neato has to take tight turns. Bumper hit will trigger reverse. Charging metal stripes on the back are going to sand away any paint and finish when its backing up. A pumper behind would solve this issue. This is also the reason to why I will move to the round style as soon as neato dies.

Just bought the i9+ and I’m very happy. Out the box it took all of a few minutes to put together. I will say it was loud at first but once I got into the app and turned the power down it quieted down. Works like a charm and went back to its base on the first run. Love it 😍

Neato fricken sucks... I have to keep letting it do a new floor plan and it gets stuck on everything. Not worth it.

Please compare mopping performances of Ecovacs T8 AIVI Vs Braava jet m6.

Neato D7 will be my slave robot! Thanks.

Which is the best cleaner between the debit ozmo t8 vs Neato d7? My d7 has a board failure at 3 weeks.

From someone with an i7+, an i9+, and 3 - m6 iRobot mops, take it from me, STAY AS FAR AWAY FROM ANYTHING MADE BY THEM AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE! Their performance, to a machine, is a joke. Their tech support is beyond horrific.

Пожалуй лучший обзор. Жаль процент собранного мусора приводится только для одного пылесоса.

I realize it's been a year, but I wanted to lend some credibility to the claim that the Neato picks up everything. Our neato d7 is run in a combination machine shop/computer room with a door between them. We only have him clean the computer room (800 sf) normally, and every time he runs he returns with a dustbin completely full of dirt.
But a few times people would leave the door ajar and Neato would wedge himself in the door to clean the machine room (1200 sf) as well. The first time it happened I didn't even realize till I went to dump out his dustbin and found stainless steel pop rivets, hex head bolts, and a whole bunch of other stuff that he had sucked up. there was no damage to any of his components or material.
Neato has had a hard life in our classroom and dealt with it admirably. now I'll never buy anything but a neato.

Looking to replace my D7 at just over 1 year. When it works, it works well... however, the ongoing Navigation Errors of not finding Floor plans -- that are right there in the app. -- are beyond annoying and inconvenient at this point. It's a well know problem with anyone that has one of these as well as by NEATO... they're just not addressing it. NEATO's support is notoriously useless and as many others have stated, they play dumb on this issue when you call them. Time to move on to a Roomba I think.

We only have hardwood floors. And I'm curious about the Neatos (we have two old Roombas which worked relatively well). I also like their software more... And am sceptical about the stability of the Roombas. I feel they are rushing to keep up and dumbing it down.

I recently had some really bad experience with iRobot Australia , worst customer service ever seen. like talking to a wall....

Я так понял- это реклама iRobot? Хотя, мне он то же нравится. Но, показатели работы от батареи говорят сами за себя. Не бывает лучшего всасывания при том же времени работы от батареи. Да и отсутствие ледара на корпусе наводит на некоторые размышления...

If we go back to the first generation models of each, you'll see Neato was the first to deploy LiDar, whereas the first generation Roomba was a bump-n-go machine. The following generation of the Neato added refinements to its previous models whereas the Roomba added more suction and side sweepers. The Neato didn't finally add side sweepers until recently (2018) and even then its a poor attempt to further enhance their side cleaning ability as the brushes do not protrude beyond the front of the machine like the Roomba does. Just about everything that made the Neato special, Roomba stole and copied into their next generation.

The funny thing is iRobot started in 2002 with military contracts, but didn't release their Roomba until 2004. Neato didn't begin until 5 years later as a company but didn't release their first model until 2010. With their innovation and LiDar use, forced Roomba to step up their game adding first generation infrared tech to replace the bump-n-go bumper. But like other limitations of infrared, it had problems with dark rooms, dark colours and then scraped for a camera system. Now in 2020, Neato still uses LiDar which Roomba has yet to copy.

This final version, Roomba had finally decided to change their original O shape to the Neato's D shape. That big auto empty dustbin is a neat feature, but we still have to empty the big bin. Whereas the Neato has the BIGGEST bin of all smart robot vacuums since 2005. TBH, the first, second and third generation of the Roomba could not be called a robot as it was an overpriced bump-n-go toy. Even now in 2020 the biggest thing on the Roomba over the Neato is still the price. Which is why I am fine to standby my Neato. My first generation machine still works in 2020 and I've changed out the battery pack, rollers and even the motor once in 15 years.

One other factor that should be mentioned, the Neato will work on deep carpet. I have bought a Roomba, and a Roborock, and had to return them both because they would barely moved on my deep pile carpet. The Neato on the other hand works with out issue on the deep carpet. I have had some issues with the Neato, mainly it being unable to load it's map of the house which seems to happened every 3 months or so. When it does this you have to delete the old map and then have it do a new special mapping run. So bottom line, if you have deep carpets I think the Neato (and maybe the Shark) are the only vacuums I know that will work.

Have a NEATO and love it.

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I had a d7 and it was garbage. It was extremely loud. I asked them for a replacement and they sent me a brush. Same problem. Repeat this twice more. I was fed up and returned it. On top of that, it kept saying it couldn’t go to my office because it was blocked, while there was nothing in the way. Finally, once I got the last brush they sent me it lost my maps and wanted to start all over. That was the last straw. I’ll be getting a Roomba instead.

I wonder if you have TESTED THEM IN THE DARK. Lasers see in the dark. Does the camera?? Doing the downstairs when sleeping upstairs is nice.

i thought there was a toilet on the thumbnail

I have a neato XV 21 for like 8 years now and it still works great, the screen doesn't work sometimes but it doesn't affect the vacuum operations. Neato has been making all the other robots look dumb in my opinion, only the lastest Roombas have started to use intelligent mapping and it still falls short. The light radar system that Neato has been using for 10 years now is just superior.

So I have had the D7 for over a year now and I must say I am extremely disappointed with the D7. This is my 3rd Neato first the the XV20, then the Botvan and now the D7. The issues ive had with the D7 is at times it just doesn't want to go out, there is no error or anything it just wont go out when its scheduled to. 2nd is the hardware, I have had to send the D7 vac back twice due to the failure of the VSLAM lidar which is a pain but Neatos service center is FAST, They get my vac in the morning and already shipped it out the same day and its the same vac so they actually repair them and while they are at it they replace other things such as the wheels, filter and brush which is a nice little plus. Lately the D7 has just started to get stuck in the middle of the rooms where there should be no reason it should get stuck. I recently just got the S9+ and I couldn't be happier, the self cleaning doc is a huge plus and game changer and I find the Roomba navigates the rooms better and covers the areas better.

Also heard Roomba S9 is useless with plush carpet, while D7 works well

So iRobot is just plainly copying Neato now on critical features..
I'll stick with the original, thanks.

I bought neato d5 and lasted 13 months a d broke down

Google wants me to watch this but all I want to do is say how much that thumbnail looks a lot like a fancy RV TOILET.

Good video and very objective and professional content.
However I think you should add two more poont in your evaluations.
1. The hight.
2. The ability to "climb" obstacles like thuck carpets and door frames.

Vacuum power != cleaning capability.. my broom has 0 suction power yet it cleans well.

Another review said the D7 couldn't do multiple floors unless you bought separate base stations for each floor

Got a D7 Black Friday 2019 because of this video and $1000 cheaper than the S9 I’ll dump my own garbage thanks