Hobot Legee D7 leads rise of the robovacs
Growing numbers of South Africans are discovering the magic of robot vacuum cleaners. They don’t mind cleaning every day, and never complain or get bored or distracted. And they don’t just save you time: they’re good for your health as well. Robot vacuum cleaners – or robovacs, as they’re commonly known – need no supervision and little maintenance. You
Hobot Legee D7 leads rise of the robovacs
Growing numbers of South Africans are discovering the magic of robot vacuum cleaners. They don’t mind cleaning every day, and never complain or get bored or distracted. And they don’t just save you time: they’re good for your health as well.
Robot vacuum cleaners – or robovacs, as they’re commonly known – need no supervision and little maintenance. You operate them through an app, and once they’ve mapped your house, they’ll happily clean up by vacuuming, mopping or both.
Award recognition
One of the newest models to hit the South African market is the Hobot Legee D7 vacuum mop – and it comes highly recommended. It was a silver medal winner at the prestigious international A’ Design awards for the best designs and well-designed products in 2021/22, while its predecessor, the Hobot Legee 7 was awarded the Fairlady Best Buy in Robot Vacuum Cleaners, and was runner-up in the Gadget.co.za Best Consumer Tech of 2021 – Home.
Call-out features
| For a start, the Hobot Legee range are D-shaped robots,which means much wider coverage and edge coverage than a round one, a design feature that continuously puts Hobot ahead in terms of its effectiveness. The all new Legee D7 introduces a tangle-less design with an additional front suction vent before the standard rotating brush – in other words, pet hair and larger waste get sucked up before they tangle the brush.It’s a 2700Pa suction robovac – a typical robot is about 1500-2000PA – and exerts downwards pressure of up to 600g. Instead of wheels, it uses tractor tracks, making it more manoeuvrable in tight spots, and it can climb 20mm sills, where many wheeled robovacs cannot reach.By connecting home appliances to your smart phone, cleaning can be done while you do other things, says Trevor Brewer, director of Solenco, the company that imports Hobot exclusively. Additionally, the cleaning power of the Hobot means there is less dust and pet |
| dander around, making the air you breathe at home cleaner and safer. |
“Two features set this new robot vacuum apart from the others: the all-terrain vacuuming and mopping feature which makes carpets and hardwood floors equally accessible on the same cleaning run, and the smart-mapping technology, which literally maps your home and cleans accordingly,” says Brewer.
● A longer 4cm ‘tilted’ whisker brush gets under overhanging sideboards
Robot vacuums in South Africa retail between R5 000 and R15 000, which puts the Hobot Legee slap-bang in the middle of the market at R8,999.00 – making it the ideal product for a smart home or for busy consumers.
Other features include:
| ● It has a floor-type sensor, and the mop plate lifts 6mm when it senses carpet and water spray stops● The mop plate exerts a 600g pressure against the floor, so it will remove more stains than a static ‘drag’ plate● Four spray nozzles with AI control means just the right amount of water● Wi-Fi 2.4 and 5Ghz connection, or if you don’t have Wi-Fi, you can Wi-Di (directconnect) to your smartphone through your Hotspot● It has LEGEE (Lidar, Encoder, Gyro, E-compass, and Position Estimation) SLAM 7.0,bumpers, cliff sensors, and floor sensors.● The App and its Talent clean is very comprehensive yet simple● It is smart and will map your home on the first run, and you can store five maps thus |
| assisting multifloor homes and offices ● Voice control with Google and Siri |
