RobotShop Ultimate Challenge: Results In for Roomba 500

Robotshop Ultimate Challenge

The RobotShop Ultimate Challenge is moving along quickly now; the Roomba 500 series has completed all the tests and its final score is now available. If you recall, the robot vacuums are being scored by 15 different performance tests: how well they pick up debris, how fast they clean, how loud they are, etc. With the Roomba 500 series' results now in, you're going to have some cold hard facts to back up your purchase decision.

Check out the video below explaining the results, or just skip to the scoring criteria found at the end of the video or found right here (PDF).

Results vid:

For those of you who are really impatient, here you have the final scores for the Roomba 560.

Roomba 560 Score Card

Next up: the Neato XV-11. We won't pretend the Neato XV-11 and the Roomba like each other; however since neither can talk (well, the Roomba actually can... sort of), we'll let the results speak for themselves. Neato XV-11's full results will be available in our next installment, two weeks from now.