Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

If you’re looking to never use a hand vacuum ever again, then this is not for you; because you will be severely disappointed. This is a machine that will bump its’ way around your home and travel in no particular direction. However, that is exactly what you signed up for. This model of the Roomba does not have a mapping feature, so to ask why it wonders around aimlessly is pointless. If you’re looking for a machine that’s going to replace your hand vacuum forever and clean as efficiently as a cleaning service, then you might need to look at the $700+ models that DOES have a mapping feature and higher specs. This $200+ is more or less a base model and is not ever going to replace your hand vacuum. I have myself and one dog in a 700 sq ft apartment (no stairs; but lots of floor rugs!) There is a consistent layer of dog and human hairs on the carpet and floorboards. What the Roomba does, is it zooms around my apartment during the week, picking up stray hairs and dust bunnies as well as get under the coffee tables and cupboards. Getting to those harder to reach places; or items of furniture I’m always too lazy to move out of the way to vacuum. This means that in between the times that I use my hand vacuum (about once a week), I don’t have a crazy amount of dog hair floating around and I don’t need to go out of my way to vacuum in those hard to reach places. It has had no trouble at all climbing over all of my area rug, doormats, bathroom rugs (high pile with tassels!) or any of the multiple smaller area rugs in the hallway or the bedroom. You do need to clean the dustbin out after each use, and it says that as part of the maintenance. Running this Roomba for an hour in my 700 sq ft apartment, with one dog and one human’s worth of hairs will fill up the dust bin. If you’re buying this to run continuously in your 3000 sq ft home; again you’re going to be very disappointed. Owning this particular model of the Roomba, there are going to be some limitations. You can’t compare a $200 product to a $700+ product and expect that they perform the same way with the same bells and whistles. If you’re looking for a robot vacuum that picks up the hairs and dust that life throws at you in between deep cleans, then this is for you. Customer Service with the iRobot team has also been great. I had some connectivity issues and they were super responsive and solution orientated.