by Sangeeta Kocharekar URL Copied! Products featured are independently and objectively selected by our editors. From time to time, things you buy through our links may earn us an affiliate commission. A few years ago, I got an email asking if I wanted to try a robot vacuum .
I’d immediately pictured a knee-height, Lego-like contraption. I imagined it with machine-looking arms and legs marching around my apartment sucking things up through its feet. I was keen.
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When it got near objects like table legs or something I’d left on the floor, it realised they were there and then either backed away or moved to the right or left of it. The very best of The Latch delivered straight to your inbox. While I thought I’d test it out a few times to be able to write this story, I was surprised to find how much I used and continued to use it.
It was so easy to charge it at its portable dockin.
