

While we liked “Sadie” we thought that, maybe perhaps, she’s a little bit dumb. The vacuum comes with a 600ml tray, which should clean most areas once, but be careful emptying it: on our first try we realised the end was open and tipped it all over the floor. The NaviBot LIGHT SR8750 will clean up most little things like dirt and dust bunnies, but larger things like bottle tops can actually get clogged in its workings causing it to shut down. One thing we did notice is that you need to place the charger square with the wall or the NaviBot will try cleaning at a strange diagonal skew. Once turned on the NaviBot is relatively quiet - somewhere between a desktop computer and a DustBuster - and it looks fairly methodical in the lines in creates up and down your floor. The Navi’ also boasts “three anti-tangle sensors that automatically unwind any cords and carpet tassels it encounters”. The robot also includes 38 on-board sensors that help it negotiate obstacles, such as table legs, sofas and stairs.

Samsung says it’s able to clean 100 square metres of floor in 40 minutes, but remember that’s only a 10×10-metre square. To go about its work, the Samsung NaviBot LIGHT SR8750 features an on-board camera that takes 30 photos a second of its environment.

We received the basic model and so were unable to test the scheduling features, and found that most of the functions had to be done manually.
