The new model includes room mapping, adaptive navigation that lets you vacuum multiple rooms and sensors that find particularly dirty areas to focus on. It can run up to 75 minutes, compared to two hours for the Roomba 980 and three for the BotVac Connected, according to the manufacturers. Cleaning-wise, it has brushes and debris extractors to get hard-to-reach dust and has up to five times the air performance of the low-end models, iRobot says.

The WiFi and Bluetooth connected iRobot app lets you schedule and customize cleaning, start and stop the vacuum and install updates. In the connected robot vacuum arena, it also competes with the more powerful, but much more expensive $1,000 Dyson 360 Eye. The Roomba 960 is now available in the US and Canada for $700, and will come to Japan and Europe in the third quarter of 2016.