Independent reviews of 20 smart home products, with links to the Amazon store for your region.
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The strongest all-round performer for pet hair on hard floors and low to medium carpet, with an obsessively complete dock. If most of your floors are thick, high-pile carpet, look elsewhere: that is the one surface where reviewers find it least convincing.
Typical price £1100–£1400
The best-value flagship for pet hair, and the one we recommend to most people. You are trading a polished app and a tidy dock for a machine that cleans like something twice the price, and for most households that is the right trade.
Typical price £360–£600
Superb value if you want strong vacuuming and class-leading edge mopping, and it is the one machine here we would steer pet owners away from. Reviewers consistently report hair tangling around the brush, which is precisely the failure mode a shedding household cannot tolerate.
Typical price £290–£480