About
About Swept and the editor who answers for it
Swept is edited by David King, a former Rolls-Royce production leader who reads a robot vacuum box like a supplier's spec sheet. Nobody here tests the robots. We weigh what labs and owners found against what the maker promised.
A robot vacuum box is covered in numbers, and almost none of them answer the first question anyone who has built things for a living would ask: measured where, on what, and how does it fail? Swept exists to ask that question about every robot it covers, and to tell you plainly what the answer means for your floors.
The person behind the advice
Who edits this robot vacuum guide?
The editor is David King, and if a page here gets something wrong, that's his to fix. At Rolls-Royce he was a Production Leader, in charge of building and assembling jet engine sections for Airbus and Boeing aircraft. Earlier, he was a Production Manager at WEC Group. You can see his background on his LinkedIn profile (opens in a new tab).
That background shapes how the site works, not what it claims to know. In aerospace a part meets its tolerance or it doesn't, and when something fails you trace it to a root cause you can show someone. I read a maker's promise the same way I'd read a supplier's spec sheet: until I can see the test that produced a number, I treat it as sales copy. David is an editor and researcher, not a reviewer of robot vacuums, and he claims no expertise in them. He also edits several research-led buying guides.
Why this site exists
Why does a robot vacuum need this much checking?
Because the things that go wrong with one go wrong in your house. A robot that spreads dog poop down the hallway, wedges itself under the couch every morning, or needs rescuing from a sock hasn't saved you any work. A dock that gives up after a year, a camera roaming the bedroom, or flagship money spent on a robot that half the price would have matched are the kind of mistakes buyers live with for years. Meanwhile the boxes compete on suction figures like it's a horsepower war, and the box copy is written by people who never have to sign off a part.
Swept covers robot vacuums for US homes, judged exact model by exact model: what the maker promises, what labs and owners actually found, and who should buy it. Look-alikes are kept apart, so a result for last year's generation, a bundle with a different dock or a version sold in another country is never passed off as a result for the robot you're looking at.
What we do and don't do
Has anyone here tested these robots?
No. Nobody on the site has used or tested the products it covers. We don't run a lab, don't take products from makers, and don't accept payment for a place on a page. Every finding belongs to its source, whether that's a lab, a reviewer, a maker's own document or an owner, and our pages say what that evidence adds up to.
The research is AI-assisted: AI models read makers' pages and US manuals, independent lab tests, reviewers' write-ups and videos, and owners' reports, following each lead back to its source. Each page is then drafted from that evidence alone and checked by scripts before it goes live. The full process is on How We Research Robot Vacuums.
How the site earns money
How does the site make money?
As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. You pay the same price whether or not you arrive through our link. What a commission can't buy is a recommendation: if a robot is wrong for your home, the page tells you to pass on it however well it pays, and points you to one that fits. Prices move every day, so our pages give a price band where a figure would be, and the Amazon listing has today's number.
The maker gets a fair hearing on every page. The evidence gets the final say.