iRobot Roomba 880

The iRobot Roomba 880 is a powerful upgrade over the Roomba 790, but even though it sucks (dirt up) more it's basically the same robotic vacuum.

The Roomba 880 looks almost identical to the Roomba 700 series, and besides the coloration of the body you'd be hard pressed to tell it apart from the Roomba 790.

It's a large circular puck with a flip-up handle in the center for carrying, a large Clean button to start it, and several touch-sensitive buttons for programming its schedule.

The iRobot Roomba 880 can vacuum with gusto and has plenty of useful features, but it doesn't offer much of an upgrade over the Roomba 790. It's still incredibly expensive for a vacuum, even if it's a vacuum that does most of the work for you.

It comes with two Virtual Wall Lighthouses, just like the Roomba 790. These small, black devices can be set to either Virtual Wall mode to project a boundary across doors or other spaces to keep the Roomba from crossing it, or to Lighthouse mode to give the Roomba a navigation point to help it move between rooms.

Like the Roomba 790, the Roomba 880 comes with a remote control so you can directly guide your vacuum. Unfortunately, the remote is a step back from the Roomba 790's admittedly clunky controller.