How matching works

Summary

• PickTheRobot has two tracks. Home scores robot-vacuum models. Business scores warehouse, commercial cleaning, and restaurant robot types and vendors.
• You answer short questions — floors and pets at home; floor size, pain points, labor cost, layout, and budget preference at work.
• Each option receives three scores: use-case fit (45%), economic fit (35%), and deployment fit (20%).
• Business vendors are ranked against your top robot type and recommended acquisition model.
• Home rankings use a small catalog of current models and publicly listed spec flags — not lab tests.
• Sponsored business listings receive a small boost only when already a reasonable fit — never enough to override poor relevance.
• Cleaning results may include an indicative labor offset from published cost bands. We do not promise payback, headcount cuts, or vendor performance.

Robot type scoring

Each robot type in your category receives three dimension scores. Overall match is a weighted blend of these dimensions.

Use-case fit (45%)

How well a robot type matches your stated pain point, load profile, layout, and category-specific inputs (e.g. picks per day, floor area, table count).

Economic fit (35%)

Alignment between your budget preference, labor cost context, and typical acquisition models (buy, lease, RaaS) for that robot type.

Deployment fit (20%)

Technology readiness, integration prerequisites (such as WMS readiness in warehouses), region, and deployment complexity signals.

Home robot vacuums

The home matcher is a separate engine from the business wizard. It ranks product models (SKUs), not B2B vendors.

Scores use the same 45 / 35 / 20 weights against your floors, pets, hair, mopping need, budget band, self-empty preference, multi-floor maps, and clutter. Spec flags come from manufacturer positioning (mop type, self-empty, pet-hair class, obstacle avoidance class) — not suction-lab charts.

We are not RTINGS, Vacuum Wars, or a hands-on review site. Treat the output as a constraint-based shortlist. Confirm current price, firmware, brush design, and mopping performance on retailer and manufacturer pages.

Some outbound links may be affiliate links. Affiliate status does not change scores. A higher-commission product cannot outrank a better fit.

Run the robot vacuum matcher

Match confidence

Results include a confidence label — strong, moderate, or weak — when your inputs suggest an unusually good or poor fit across robot types.

Weak confidence means the engine sees tension in your profile (for example low volume with high automation ambition, or missing integration readiness). It is not a verdict that automation is impossible — it is a prompt to validate assumptions with vendors and a site walk.

We do not use confidence labels to rank vendors up or down. They describe the recommendation quality for your inputs, not vendor quality.

Vendor ranking

• Vendors must support your category, recommended robot type, acquisition model, and listed region to appear in the shortlist.
• Overall match combines the same three dimensions, weighted toward use-case and economic fit for vendor comparison.
• Vendors below a minimum match threshold are excluded and may show an explanatory reason.
• Sponsored vendors receive a small score adjustment (+3 points) only when overall match is already at least 40 — enough to break ties among similar fits, not to promote irrelevant vendors.
• Sponsored listings are labeled on vendor cards and profile pages.

Try it

Run the matcher for your category, then expand the score breakdown on results to see which criteria moved each recommendation.

Choose a trackBusiness matcher