Neato xv 21 where to buy

Unlock to see our ratings and compare products side by side Sign In. Ratings Scorecard. Test Results. Bare floors. Pet hair. Pet hair Pet hair pickup on a medium-pile carpet. Edges How well a vacuum can clean edges and corners on both bare floors and carpets. Ease of use. Ease of use A composite score that includes bin capacity and ease of emptying the dirt bin and cleaning the filter. Noise The scored measure of a model's sound level. Data privacy. Data privacy A measure of how the device and its service provider collect, share and use your data, and the user's ability to control the flow of their data.

Data security. Data security A measure of how well the device and its service provider protect your data with respect to authentication, encryption, software updates, response to known vulnerabilities, etc. Highs Excels at removing embedded dirt from carpets. Lows You must bend to adjust the pile height.

Or, Sign In. Remote control. Remote control Indicates a model comes with a remote control. Pattern The pathway the robotic vacuum follows to clean our test areas.

Clearance The height, rounded up to the nearest half-inch, of the shortest vertical space the robotic vacuum could enter while operating. Run time. Run time Reflects the average time it took the robotic vacuum on its max-clean setting to clean our greater than square foot test room over 3 test runs. Bare floors POC. Bare floors POC Indicates the vacuum's ability to remove surface debris from a bare vinyl floor. Noise POC.

That being said, the XV is an undeniably solid robot vacuum. Like its siblings in the Neato family, it sits right in the sweet spot between you-get-what-you-pay-for budget models and pricier vacuums that promise to clean out your bank account just as well as they clean up your floors. It isn't the specific Neato that I'd choose, but then again, I don't have long-haired animals shedding all over my apartment. If I did, I don't think I'd hesitate to buy this robot vacuum and set it to work. Design and features Let's get one thing out of the way: the XV looks an awful lot like a Super Nintendo.

If, like me, you happen to geek out over classic bit gaming, then you'll probably get a kick out of the design. Like the other Neatos, the XV is a rather noisy little machine, so you'll definitely want to try and use it while you're out of the house. Also like the other Neatos, it features a design that's flat in the front and rounded in the back. This is supposed to help it clean alongside walls and head straight into corners, and in our tests, it hugged the baseboards as promised, just as the other models did when we tested them.

It also uses the same laser-guided navigation system to detect walls and obstacles before it weaves back and forth across the room in neat, orderly little rows. This is a dramatic difference between Neato and other robot vacuums -- most notably Roombas -- which bounce and swirl around the room in seemingly chaotic fashion.

One approach isn't inherently better than the other. Throughout our testing, I've been impressed with the effectiveness of both navigational styles, although perhaps not more so than the first time I watched the XV Signature Pro gradually map out a crowded living room, then zoom back and forth across it while nimbly dodging all of the furniture legs and cabinetry in its path. I'm not convinced that the XV would be quite so adept at finding its way around that same room -- but more on that in just a bit.

Laser-guided navigation system aside, features aren't Neato's strong suit. You won't find remote controls with any of their robot vacuums, nor will you find advanced, customizable cleaning modes.

Neatos don't use side-spinning brushes to help clean along baseboards, and they don't come with fancy, programmable invisible walls. The XV is no exception to any of this.

Aside from its normal cleaning mode, the XV offers only a basic spot cleaning mode. There's no remote, so you won't be able to steer it around the room, either. If you want to move the XV somewhere specific, you'll need to pick it up and carry it there. You'll start the XV by tapping a button on the cleaner itself, or by scheduling it to start automatically at a specific time. That's certainly more basic than much of the competition, but there's one nice scheduling feature here: you can set the XV to run at different times on different days.

Many robot vacuums will only let you pick a single time for the cleaner to run at across all days. To control where the XV goes or to be more specific, where it does not go you'll use magnetic boundary markers that unroll onto the ground.

The XV won't pass over them, making it easy to block off a doorway or a particular corner of the room. Some users will no doubt appreciate the simplicity of the boundary markers, as well as the fact that they won't need to worry about batteries running down, the way they will with the invisible wall generators we've seen from other competitors, such as the "Lighthouses" the Roomba uses.

Still, those Lighthouses are smart enough to turn off and allow the Roomba to pass into a second area after it finishes cleaning the first one, a level of functionality you won't get with Neato.

At any rate, the XV comes with a 6-foot strip of boundary markers which you can cut into multiple pieces as needed. In the end, the features that set the XV apart are the specialty brushroll and the pleated filter, neither of which come with the previous generation Neatos, the XV and XV If you already own one of these older Neatos and you're looking for stronger performance, the kit might be worth it -- but if you're planning on buying an older Neato at retail price, then tacking on the kit, don't bother.

Performance and usability A good robot vacuum should be able to perform well on multiple types of floor surfaces and pick up a variety of debris types with a minimal amount of intervention from the user. I decided to start with the XV's calling card: pet hair. Like every robot vacuum that we've tested before it, I ran the tests on low-pile carpet, a plushier mid-pile carpet, and on hardwood floors.

As you can see, the Neato XV reigned supreme in our pet hair test, picking up more of the stuff than any other robot vacuum that we've tested. As a matter of fact, Neato's currently sweeping the podium, with the silver and bronze going to the XV Signature Pro and the XV Essential, respectively. Given that the XV Essential is the only one of the three not to feature the specialized pet hair brushroll, this ordering makes sense, and reinforces Neato's claim that the brushroll brings better performance.

Another saving grace of the brushroll is that it does a good job of moving hair into the bin without letting too much of it get tangled up along the way. Neato's vacuum motors are powerful enough to compare to better quality stick vacs.

That suction power in conjunction with the very effective roller brush, gives you have a contender to replace your full size upright vacuum! Their bot vacs perform their job very quickly and efficiently, using an overlapping pattern in the systematic manner of a person mowing a lawn. My first Neato was the XV I decided to replace it with the quieter and more efficient XV after carefully reviewing specs and demo videos by owners and hobbyists on YouTube. That says a lot right there about the quality and ability of Neato products.

Read full review. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: Pre-owned. Mine only holds a charge for an hour, so I have to do two separate rooms in the morning, and when it charges I do the rest of the house, but it has to charge again before it is finished. If you have a small house it would work good.

I like the way it picks up, but it skips a lot of the floor so I have to spot clean it. I have to be here when it cleans because it gets stuck in the hallway, and under chairs.

It takes an hour and a half to recharge so it takes all day for it to clean. They don't give you enough strip to lay on the floors so expect to spend some extra money if you have areas where you want it not to go. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: Refurbished. It took a few days to acclimate. It gets stuck more often than I had hoped. Because we have all hardwood floors in an open floor plan, hearth room, family room, kitchen, with a few 5' X 7' rugs, Neato gets "lost".

I have to pick the vacuum up and move it frequently. Also it can't "find" it's way back to the docking station from the furthest point away from the station. I really can't use the schedule because I can't run it while I'm away for the afore mentioned reasons.

However it is great for spot cleaning and one room cleaning. It is easy to clean after use. Verified purchase: Yes Condition: New. Right out of the box and fully charged the vacuum brush drive was to stiff. When I switched to the hardwood floor roller it worked fine.