Guides · Spain
Buy a robot you can keep.
What we learned from scoring robots sold in Spain on repair, support, independence, running costs and privacy. Built from our own sourced data: no sponsored picks, no affiliate links.
Buying guides
Robot vacuums: what makes one worth keeping
How to choose a robot vacuum in Spain that you can repair, keep running and afford to own: batteries, spare parts, running costs, cloud dependence and privacy.
Robotic lawn mowers: what makes one worth keeping
How to choose a robotic lawn mower in Spain that you can repair and keep running: batteries, parts for older models, wire versus RTK navigation, subscriptions and running costs.
Pool and window robots: what makes one worth keeping
How to choose a pool or window cleaning robot in Spain that you can repair and keep using: batteries, spare parts, offline use and running costs.
Owning a robot
What a robot really costs to own
Official consumables per year, battery prices and a calculator, for every robot where the maker publishes enough.
Your rights in Spain when a robot breaks
The 3-year legal guarantee, 10 years of spare parts, and what the EU right to repair does and doesn’t cover.
When the cloud goes away
What the iRobot sale showed, which robots work offline, and what to check before buying a connected robot.
Repair resources
Official manuals, battery swap guides and parts catalogues, robot by robot.
Lists
The most repairable robots
Ranked by battery access, spare parts, parts for older models and repair guides.
Robots that work without the internet
What still works with no account and no connection, and which have local control.
Lowest running costs
Official consumables per year as a share of the price, and who doesn’t publish enough to tell.
Brands
How we score
The Fair Standard
Every criterion, level and red flag, and how our first batch of robots landed on each.
What brands don’t tell you
Every “Not disclosed” in our scores, brand by brand, and the points publishing it could be worth.
Questions about Fair Robots
Why no robot is a Fair Pick yet, whether we test robots, and how money is kept out of the scores.
Glossary
Red flags, key modules, legal guarantee, RTK, Matter and the other terms we use.