Robot vacuums are actually worth it if you understand their settings. As a pro robot vacuum tester, I've learned some tips to set them up for success.

Your robot vacuum may already work well enough, but there are a few tweaks that can make it even better. A big factor in your robot vacuum's performance, it turns out, is actually you.

The status quo of programming robots is thousands of hours of tele-operation to teach the robot how to do tasks. That's just impossible," Choudhury said.