Choice magazine, in its review of iRobot's Braava 380t, likened the robotic mop, unfavourably, to a toddler crawling around your house "wearing damp microfibre kneepads" trying to clean your floors.

Here in the Digital Life Labs, we've been testing the Braava 380t, alongside iRobot's Roomba 980 robotic vacuum cleaner, for 10 days now, and we have to say that Choice's description is pretty spot on.