The budget-friendly iRobot Roomba Essential Vac is on sale for $140 as an early Black Friday deal. The normal price is $250.

As we head towards Black Friday, the iRobot Roomba Vac Robot has already knocked up to 40% off it's original price. Amazon's offering this Roomba for $149, slashing $100 off its usual $249 price tag. For a robot vacuum from the company that revolutionized home cleaning, that's a price that's hard to ignore!

Vacuums have come a long way from the cumbersome corded models of decades past, but they’re not exactly…cheap. Thankfully, we’ve spotted lots of early Black Friday vacuum deals on all sorts of models—from upright to robotic to hardwood-specific to pet-friendly—many of which we’ve written about before and have tested in our own homes.