When it comes to the technical specifications of a robot vacuum cleaner, height is especially important. Thus the Neato Robotics D8 is newer from the year 2020. The Neato Robotics D7 was introduced in the year 2017. There are 3 years between the releases of the two models. After all, there are changes in technology every year. The age of the two vacuum cleaner robots is of course interesting in the comparison. Let's take a look at the differences between the Neato Robotics D7* and Neato Robotics D8* in comparison. Registering 64dB it’s quiet in eco mode on hard floor, but turbo mode on carpet is louder at 70dB - but this is still the same noise as background chatter in an office, which is more than acceptable.The two vacuuming robots of the Neato Robotics brand differ in a few ways. Additionally, the filter gets quite clogged so has to be tapped to clear the fluff, creating further dust clouds. Some dirt can also get trapped inside, so it has to be tapped into the trash which can create dust clouds. The dirt bin lifts out of the top of the robot easily, to empty it the filter has to be removed, and while it’s easy enough it can be a messy process.
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On the plus side, it successfully avoids falling downstairs. It didn’t stop until we paused it and took it back downstairs to the charger. At the end of cleaning the vacuum switched off and repeatedly bashed into our closet door, presumably looking for the charger as this is where we had started it up. We tried vacuuming upstairs and leaving the charger downstairs. When moving it to vacuum a different floor, we would advise taking the charger. We also noticed that during vacuuming a significant amount of air blows out of the back of the robot, enough to feel like a chilly breeze if it vacuums near you. Occasionally this would happen on the charging dock too, lifting the dock into the air. It also tried to climb up the legs of a stool and a clothes drying rack.
But this means it sometimes likes to try and climb things, for example, it tried to get on our fire hearth which sits an inch above the main floor.
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Unusually, this robot has the ability to slightly lift itself at the front or back, which helps it get free if it becomes stuck or trapped. It would also repeatedly bash into things before realizing it needed to go around them. On one occasion it was tangled with hair, but at other times there didn’t seem to be a reason and as soon as we removed it from its magnet and replaced it, it started working again. On a few separate cleaning runs on carpet, the side brush stopped spinning and the app didn’t alert us that something was wrong. In fact, on several occasions, the corner cleaning was very disappointing as it would start turning before it got right into the corner. Neato claims the signature D shape allows it to reach areas circular robots can’t, but in our tests cleaning into corners and along edges was no better than what we’ve experienced with circular robovacs.
We noticed that on two consecutive runs over the same floor, it covered pretty much everywhere and collected the majority of visible debris. It wasn’t unusual for it to miss parts of the floor, though if used daily this shouldn’t pose too much of a problem. However, despite the lidar and a somewhat methodical cleaning pattern, its general cleaning path did at times seem clumsy and a bit confused. In use, the Neato D8 gave us mixed results, in general pick-up is fine from most of the areas it covers.