Neato Botvac D7 Connected review: Building a better (but more expensive) mousetrap

The Neato Botvac D7 Connected represents the best and worst of robot vacuum technology: On the one hand, there's cutting-edge features that let you perform one of the most-loathed household tasks while barely lifting a finger. On the other hand, there's a heart-stopping price tag that makes you question just how much that convenience is worth. Ultimately, we each must solve that conundrum for ourselves, but we can say that the Botvac D7 Connected is an object lesson in "you get what you pay for." The Botvac D7 breaks from the disc-shaped design of every other robot vacuum we've reviewed to date, instead sporting the Botvac line's trademark "D" shape. This isn't just a design cue; those right angles allow it to clean along walls and in corners better than its round competitors.