iRobot's new Roomba i7+ finally automates the only human chore left in cleaning your smart home: emptying the robot’s dust bin. After each cleaning session the roaming robot returns to its special charging base, where a wall-fixed vacuum sucks out all the dust and dirt into a bigger container. According to iRobot, the bigger vacuum bag can hold as much as 30 times the volume of a Roomba’s dust bin. It means the base station can go without a bag change for at least a few weeks (depending on the frequency of the cleaning sessions and the size of your apartment). 

The ability to clean itself is certainly the most impressive new feature of the Roomba i7+, but iRobot’s new vacuum is smarter in many other ways. Thanks to a beefier smartphone-grade processor, the device will be able to automatically draw a map of your house after only five cleaning session in the same area. Each room can then be named separately, in order to better organize the cleaning based on each room’s level of dirtiness. This feature, paired with the integration with Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, makes it finally possibile to activate the robotic cleaner just by shouting commands like “Hey Google, clean the kitchen” or “Alexa, clean the living room” to your smart speaker or smartphone of choice.