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When Your Little Helper Needs Help

Sunday, June 21, 2026

iFixit walks through what actually goes wrong with robot vacuums — brush rolls, sensors, batteries, the whole chaotic little life of your floor-crawling companion — and how to fix it yourself instead of tossing it. It's a love letter to keeping your robot running, and a useful reminder that most robovac failures are cheaper to repair than the sticker price of a replacement suggests. Stretchers, this one's basically written for you.

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