In 1967, CBS’s Walter Cronkite hosted a one-time show called The 21st Century in which Walter explained to the TV viewers on their small tubed TVs what the home of the 21st Century would be like.
He goes on to explain that the home of the 21st century will have unthinkable features such as a 3D television, speakers that are built into the wall, a home office with a computer to do work from home, and full artificial intelligence making home life so much easier.
Even things that we take for granted, such as being able to print a document at home, are seen as a far-fetched possibility in the film (12:20).
What amazes me about the film is that the concepts portrayed in the film aren’t far off what we have today. We have computers, microwaves, large TVs, and nearly everything else that they mention.
As technology progresses, we humans discover new ways to help ourselves. Less tedious work gives us new time to do undiscovered activities and shift our focus on what is next to come.
With our 21st Century homes, comes our self-cleaning functions. Pioneered by iRobot, automatic in-home vacuum cleaners have become an affordable and practical way to maintain a clean floor in your small home or apartment.
As the technology progresses and prices come down, Bagotte, an Amazon-retailer, offers their own unique automatic robot vacuum cleaner priced affordably by a simple “it just works” design.
With automatic recharging, wireless remote control, scheduling, dual side brushes, and more, the Bagotte robot vacuum would truly impress Walter in 1967 as much as it impresses me in 2019. Let’s discover how the vacuum of the 21st Century helps clean up the mess around my town home.
Welcome to my review of the Bagotte Robot Vacuum.
Design
Just as Apple pioneered the smartphone with their iPhone, iRobot pioneered the automatic in-home robot. The then to follow brands were not clones, but were unique in their own way, just as Bagotte’s is today.
Made entirely of plastic, the Bagotte vacuum is a circle-shaped robot that zooms around your home cleaning carpets, hardwood flooring, and medium-sized rugs. To propel itself around your home, the robot uses two large height-adjustable rubber wheels that operate in the same manner as a tank.
The two wheels are independently controlled, which allow the robot to twist and turn on a zero-turn axis. There is also a front free-spinning guidance wheel that helps keep the vacuum on track.
Aesthetically, the Bagotte vacuum is quite pleasing. The matte and glossy black design gives it a subtle appearance as it zooms around your home, but still looking like a premium product.
Bagotte went with a minimalistic design with the glossy top having their product name and a single, multi-function button labeled Clean.
Speaking of cleaning, flipping the vacuum on its back like a turtle, the vacuum shows off its dual side cleaning brushes as well as the large vacuum intake brush. More on this later.
Lastly, in terms of design, one of the smartest thoughts of this vacuum was that the dust and garage container is dyed in a dark red color to indicate where garbage is stored. It is a great deterrent for children who may accidentally take out the container and then dump it back onto the floor.
Safety
Vacuums are generally safe tools. They use a soft spinning brush and suction to pick up the dirt. However, their safety comes from the human operating them. Putting artificial intelligence in control of a high spinning brush and strong suction is going to require some safety measures.
The Bagotte is jam-packed with safety features, even more than I was originally expecting.
First and foremost, if the vacuum is touched or tampered with, it will immediately stop cleaning. This prevents curious children who may pick up the vacuum or attempt to play with it.
Next, to prevent the vacuum from running into objects on the floor, it uses some precautions to prevent ramming or damaging objects. The front of the vacuum has a plastic bumper that when tapped, will cause the vacuum from continuing forward and instead attempt to go around the object or rotate to a new direction.
In addition to the bumper, the vacuum uses IR sensors that detect objects in front of it. These cause the vacuum to decrease its speed rapidly before gently tapping the wall or object.
If the vacuum is placed upstairs or close to an edge, the downward-facing sensors will prevent the vacuum from falling off a ledge or stairwell.
Those same sensors double as magnet detectors. Bagotte includes magnetic stripping that once placed by the homeowner on the carpet or flooring, will stop the vacuum from going past it. This can be used to stop the vacuum from getting close to an object, going underneath or behind the couch, or prevent it from entering a particular room.
Outside of the physical sensors, the vacuum also has a few internal ones. The vacuum understands if the dust bin is full, if a wheel is hanging off a ledge, if the brushes are stuck, if the sensors are dirty, or if the power is too low.
All safety warnings are displayed using light codes via the previously mentioned Clean button,which will halt cleaning if pressed once.
Cleaning
The primary and only goal of this product is to clean your carpets, hardwood floors, and rugs with no additional added functionality or want.
Starting on its charging base station, tapping clean causes the vacuum to back off of its station, turn around, and begin its cleaning tour.
As previously mentioned, Bagotte’s robot vacuum is a robot that just works. There are not any special room mapping functions, smartphone apps, or configurations to set. Simply tapping Clean is all you have to do to get things started.
As it begins to clean, the vacuum essentially follows random patterns around your flooring and rooms. Without any smartphone room mapping, the vacuum does an impressive job at getting around the home.
My townhouse is a one-floor, one-bedroom unit with the living room, dining room, and kitchen taking up most of the space in the unit.
On its cleaning tour, the vacuum will almost, without exception, turn around, tap the dining room table and then bounce off objects to get around the rest of the room.
The onboard controller that drives the vacuum around from room-to-room relies on bouncing off objects to then tell the vacuum to twist and turn to clean as many spots as possible.
Impressively, the vacuum moves around well with it rarely getting trapped, stuck, or in a position where it keeps cleaning the same corner of a room.
It should be mentioned that with the vacuum randomizing its cleaning path for each tour, it does leave an assortment of vacuum lines in the carpet as if a child were cleaning. If this does not bother you, then there is nothing to worry about, but if you like a cleaner and more uniformed vacuum look on your carpets, it may itch at you with random lines.
When I first moved into this unit, I did not have my rugs placed down on the floor. The vacuum zoomed around room-to-room, including the bathroom, and cleaned everything, and I mean everything. From underneath tables, to underneath my bed, to the bathroom floor mats, the vacuum is a champion cleaner.
The dust bin fills up every time with a large amount of dust due to its impressive 1600ps suction rating. In addition to strong suction, the vacuum is impressively quiet, with it once running while I was sleeping and never waking me up. You could even continue to watch your television as it only admits a 55db noise level.
Another impressive feature of the Bagotte vacuum is the large wheels. These wheels easily climb up and down carpets, rugs, and small drops to and from hardwood flooring. Unfortunately for myself, my rugs are furry, and this caused the vacuum to stop on my rugs and wait for a human to move the vacuum back onto normal carpet.
While this can be an annoyance, the Bagotte vacuumwill operate fine with with most rugs as long as they are not furry or have long strains??. As mentioned, the cleaning of the vacuum was not a problem until I placed the large rugs down.
The vacuum’s cleaning tour will continue until one of two things happen: the dust bin fills up or the battery runs low. It should be mentioned that the battery lasts well over an hour.
Once either of these happens, the vacuum will stop cleaning and begin to search for its base station. It automatically docks itself to the station and begins recharging. A human will still need to empty the dust bin, which is a very straightforward process.
All in all, the cleaning function of Bagotte’s robot vacuum is surprisingly impressive. Each time I empty the dust bin, it is full of dirt and grime. With it set to clean my place for me, I barely need to ever worry about a dirty carpet.
Remote
While this vacuum does not have any smartphone integration, it does come with a remote control. The wireless IR emitting remote allows you to do certain functions with the vacuum.
First, you can manually control the vacuum for spot cleaning. By placing the vacuum down, the remote allows the operator to clean forward, backwards, and left and right.
Next, the operator can set up a cleaning schedule. As I find the vacuum to be safe on its own and not get tangled in wires that may be on the floor, I have the vacuum clean once a day while I am away at work, but any time can be set.
There are six cleaning modes on the remote control, auto, schedule, spot, max, edge, and single room cleaning. These modes are set by the vacuum unless changed by the remote.
Lastly, the remote can also tell the vacuum to return to its home station.
My Final Thoughts
For a small home and apartments, the Bagotte robot vacuum is a fantastic product. It operates so simply and just works.
Bagotte’s inclusion of safety features helps me feel more secure that if something were to go wrong, it will halt its operation. In addition, the superior cleaning of the brushes helps take away the chore of cleaning every week.
Priced at $218, I find the Bagotte to be an excellent alternative to the expensive iRobot pioneers. Bagotte has created a quiet, efficient, and simple robot that really improves my 21st Century home.
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© 2019 Justin Vendette
