REASONS TO BUY
Great poo-recognition
Real-time video
Excellent hardwood floor cleaning
Intuitive app
Dirt disposal system
REASONS TO AVOID
Poor carpet cleaning performance
Poor pet hair pickup
Expensive
Samsung Jet Bot AI+ Review
Unless you have all hard surfaces, stay away — this is a pretty pricey product that offers poor carpet cleaning performance
Credit: Abriah Wofford
By Jessica Riconscente ⋅ Review Editor ⋅ August 19, 2022
Contributions From: Benjamin Hickok
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Our Verdict
The Samsung Jet Bot AI+ is an above-average robot vacuum that excels on hard surfaces, recognizes pet droppings, and reliably avoids them. However, it does a poor job of cleaning carpets and is rather expensive. Overall, it failed to impress our test team, mainly due to inconsistent performances across our set of challenges. Unless you have only hard surfaces in your home and truly appreciate the intuitive nature of Samsung products, we suggest considering more well-rounded models.
Our Analysis and Test Results
When it comes to robot vacuums, the Samsung Jet Bot AI+ is an above-average performer that gave the top-rated models a run for their money. Unfortunately, it never outshone the competition in any specific metric.
The straight-edge design allows the AI+ to tackle corners effectively.
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Navigation
We found the ability to navigate around the furniture to be generally good. While the AI+ did have some occasional bumps into obstacles, it didn't have to collide with objects to sense them; instead, it more often utilized recognition in sensing and software.
A cleaning history and notifications are part of what make this model a little smarter than others.
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The Jet Bot AI+ did an excellent job at poo-avoidance and docking efficiently. For our simulated pet poop challenge, the AI+ recognized both the small and large simulated poops and avoided them entirely. In addition to excellent poo-avoidance, the AI+ navigates to its docking station efficiently, avoiding all obstacles along the way.
The AI did a great job of avoiding our simulated pet waste.
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Home Coverage
The Samsung Jet Bot AI+ does a good but not great job of thoroughly covering an entire room, missing a few spots during testing, including a corner. While it got close to edges in our home coverage and edging tests, the AI+ did a marginal job cleaning.
The AI+ works edges and corners with its advantageous design.
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Carpet Cleaning
It pushed rice grains around on the low-pile carpet. Instead of picking up the rice grains, it worked them deeper into the high-pile carpet. Instead of cleaning oatmeal, it displaced and sprayed them all around. It repeated the same behavior on high-pile carpet, sometimes grinding the debris instead of picking it up.
The Samsung left rice grains behind on the carpet.
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Fortunately, the Jet Bot AI+ managed to do a great job picking up flour from carpet, only leaving a fine residue behind. Its great performance cleaning flour helped its average score on the carpet cleaning test metric from being absolutely dismal, but the AI+ proved it is not the strongest carpet cleaner of the bunch.
A poor job of cleaning oatmeal on carpet.
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Hard Surface Cleaning
No other robots matched a perfect performance picking up rice, and only one other model we tested matched its near-perfect performance cleaning oatmeal. The Jet Bot also consistently picks up flour on all kinds of surfaces.
The Samsung AI+ did an excellent job on hard surfaces.
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While the AI+ did great in three of our four hard surface cleaning tests, it did not do as well on our cereal cleaning test, and like many models, was unable to clean cereal from a hard surface.
The Samsung storming hard surfaces.
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Pet Hair
Unfortunately for pet owners who love Samsung products, the Jet Bot AI+ is not going to be your go-to tool for cleaning pet hair. Or if it is, prepare to be disappointed, because the AI+ picked up less than 10% of the pet hair used in our controlled tests. This earned it a low score in this metric.
Convenience
Samsung does not include a physical remote with the Jet Bot AI+. Everything is run through the app, which has mostly excellent software but lacks specific spot cleaning, favoring zone designation instead. The app also lacks accessory life tracking, AKA maintenance tracking, although it does provide some notifications for when it needs its disposal system emptied.
A dirt collection system adds to the overall convenience.
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The docking station is also exceptional, improving its convenience performance due to its large dust capacity at 2.4L. The dust removal system is one of the few bagged systems available today.
The Jet Bot has a larger charging station.
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Should You Buy the Samsung Jet Bot AI+?
While the Samsung Jet Bot AI+ is a good if not great robot vacuum, especially on hard surfaces, it is also a little pricey. Other models perform better at a lower price. However, this model is still worth considering if you are primarily interested in a bagged system and great poo-avoidance.
What Other Robot Vacuums Should You Consider?
If an overall balance of great performance and price is what you are looking for, then consider the incredible Eufy RoboVac X8 Hybrid. Or, for the most intelligent robot on the market today, consider the Roborock S7 MaxV Ultra.
—Jessica Riconscente and Benjamin Hickok
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