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hi I'm Katy Pilkington for cnet.com and I'm standing in front of the infinite voc lien made qq5 Plus compared to other robot vacuums in the field the Infini vote could be considered a budget vacuum with a price point of 349 dollars on those websites so you can find a cheaper on Amazon I had high hopes for this machine because a lot of the robot vacuums are in a price point that's far beyond what most consumers are looking for when they're shopping for a vacuum cleaner at over $500 many of them are just out of that price range that is reasonable for the average consumer the info new vote at three hundred and forty nine dollars seemed to be a really good answer to that but unfortunately it seems in this case that you get what you pay for like many of the other robot vacuums we tested the infini though features a wall dock and a remote control and it's fully programmable you can program it to turn on at different times on different days of the week the one glitch about this as opposed to the others is that you have to go fully through the programming sequence for all seven days before the robot will recognize that it has been programmed so it takes more time and is a little bit more finicky than the other robots that we attempted to program the remote is small easily understood and nests in a caddy in the top of the machine which is a nice feature because you'll always know where it is one of the things we didn't like about this vacuum is compared to other robot vacuums is that many of the others ran on a sensor which means that they will clean the room and sense when they have been everywhere in the case of the neato or when the debris is gone which is the case with the Roomba this however runs on a timer and if you the user do not program it differently it will run automatically on an 80 minute timer which is a long time for a robot that you can run in one room one of the other things we didn't like about this vacuum initially is that it is programmed to not collide anything on its default settings and that you have to as the user interfere and reprogram it with the use of the remote into what's called soft collide mode where it will run into things but if you don't do that if you don't enter the user it won't get within eight inches of any of the things in your room so if you're using it in the living room for example it will stay in the open areas but not really go up against your furniture or your baseboards in all of our tests the Infini veau underperformed significantly all of the other robot vacuums in the series we tested it picking up rice pet hair and a stand and sawdust mixture with the case of our pet hair tests all of the pet hair that looked as if it had been picked up by the robot vacuum was in fact jammed underneath the roller wheels and under the front guide wheel of the machine which took about ten minutes to clean out every single time in our tests involving rice the Infini bows scattered it creating more work again as with the pet hair I think it's important to note that these machines are generally intended to make your life easier within your home and its maintenance and I can honestly say that this created more work than it's saved for me in all of our tests across the board we also didn't like the dust bin at all it's used poorly designs as soon as you pull it out of the machine most of the contents are forced forward out of slits in the front of the bin so it doesn't hang on to anything that it picks up either which again creates more work unlike many of the other machines we looked at the Infini bow bows the UV light which in theory would kill dust mites and bacteria in your carpet one of the things we were interested in testing with all of these robot vacuums was how they behaved with their sensors towards a Ledge for example if you're using it on the top floor of your home and don't want it to go down the stairs the infra nuba fails the cliff test pretty miserably but did as well as we would have hoped any of the machines would have performed on the stairs it sensed the stairs and didn't go over the ledge so the results were rather inconclusive on how its sensors work I think it depends on the landscape of your house after running numerous tests on this machine I can't in good conscience recommend this to you when the neato for $100 more outperformed it significantly in all areas for cnet.com I'm Katy Pilkington with the infinite VOC clean mate qq5 plus