Robot vacuums are amazing, particularly if you've spent years pushing a manual vacuum around your apartment. To have this little disc thoroughly clean the floor when you're not even there is an experience that will spoil you. But that doesn't mean it's a completely hands-off experience; in their current iteration, robot vacuums still require some supervision and maintenance—things that they never show you in the commercials.
Here we'll take a look at what the actual user experience is with our review of Moneual's Rydis MR6550. After the shine of using a new product wears off, what tasks will you find yourself repeating to keep the thing running smoothly? And what will you wish the product's designers had done differently? Watch and find out.
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