Arming your home with smart tech is a great idea for added security, saving energy and making your house feel, well, more homely. But we're glad to see a1in the range of connected cleaning products designed to take the stress out of housework, as this gives you time to put your feet up.
Robot vacuum cleaners have been2for a while now, but they've come on in leaps and bounds in recent years. Many of the major robot brands have3their robots with great cleaning skills to make them effective ,hard—working household companions that don't4furniture.
The Neato D7 Botvac D7 Connected is one of our favourite robot vacuums, thanks to its laser technology system used to scan,5and clean your whole home. As it is6via an app on your phone, you can also tell the Botvac D7 to give certain areas a more thorough clean, or to avoid areas7.
iRobot creates a great range of smart cleaning robots too,8the Roomba980, which has an easy—to—use app for scheduling cleans. It's also a great vacuum for giving carpets a deep clean, for9up pet hair, and for cleaning hard floors.
iRobot also has the Braava 390t, a floor—mopping robot that's specially10to clean hard floors, both dry or damp. It's capable of tracking where it's been and where it needs to go and once cleaning is finished, it returns to where it started and powers11automatically. Its cleaning pad is12continually during the cleaning process.
Smart cleaning tech isn't just13in vacuums, either. There are a number of14that provide automated cleans. This includes the Emperor of Gadgets Toilet Sanitizer, which starts a six—minute cleaning15every time you close your toilet lid.
