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Bench Tests
No sponsored scores, no review units returned to the PR department. Every Bench Test is bought at retail, logged through real use, and ends with the section most reviews won't print: who shouldn't buy it.
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We ran the j7+ daily for twelve months in a two-dog household. Here's what the battery, the bin and the obstacle avoidance actually did.
9 min read
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Self-washing, self-emptying, self-refilling. We measured whether the RockDock's convenience survives six months of real use.
11 min read
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No flyer ID, omnidirectional sensing, 4K/60. We flew 22 missions to find the catch. There isn't much of one.
8 min read
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The 315X promises a lawn that cuts itself. We measured coverage, edge quality, and what two winters do to the battery.
10 min read
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£2,800 new, dozens appearing used. We spent a month with the Go2 Pro to answer the only question that matters.
12 min read
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The MK4's pitch is reliability. We logged every failed print across 820 hours to test it. There were four.
9 min read
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Under £200 used, the X8 promises 80% of the flagship experience. We measured exactly how much it delivers.
7 min read
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A summer with the UK's most-resold pool robot: wall climbing, waterline scrub, and the filter-clean routine nobody warns you about.
6 min read
Pickup tests use measured debris and bin weighing. Battery claims are runtime-logged, not read off the box.
Scores publish only after a minimum 60 days of daily use. Reliability can't be reviewed in an afternoon.
Every review tracks how the machine ages — battery curves, wear points, spares pricing — because most of our readers buy second-hand.