A vacuum that knows the difference between a sock and a dog toy

The Roomba j7+ uses PrecisionVision AI to recognize and avoid obstacles — and it genuinely works. It distinguishes between a phone charger cable, a sock, a shoe, and dog waste, and it navigates around each one differently. The sock gets a wider berth, the cable gets a careful pass, the pet waste gets avoided entirely.

This is the difference between a vacuum that can run unsupervised and one that requires a pre-cleaning sweep before every cycle. In a home with pets and kids, the pre-clean step is the bottleneck — if you have to pick up the floor before the vacuum runs, you’re doing the work the vacuum was supposed to do. The j7+ breaks that cycle.