Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This is a fantastic robot! Before selecting, we looked at Consumer Reports, which recommended several others in the budget-friendly category. This one came out after that article. Had it not, I’m convinced the K700 would have won that division and been the top overall pic. We have a 1,700 sq ft main floor covered in hardwood and carpet. The K700 was able to clean it all with ease on a single charge, not once or twice, but three times. Possibly more if we let it. First time was to vacuum. You can see the results in the image, which includes a previous vacuum the day before. Filled up the bin, even though we had vacuumed and mopped just a few days before. Then we switched to mop mode. The instructions say use water only. Not sure why, but we did. Worked well, though I wouldn’t say this is its strong suit. The video (if it loaded) shows it in mop mode. You can see the light film of water it lays down. Video also shows how it sees obstacles instead of randomly bumping into them, though it still will for objects like chair legs. You may get the impression the unit’s loud. Truth is it isn’t. I’d say its about as loud as running water, though at a lower frequency. Wouldn’t interrupt a phone call. We have several pieces of furniture with clearances under 4 inches that are hard for us to clean under. The K700 had no problem whatsoever. It zipped right under each and went to town cleaning. It also did a great job navigating around the three legs of our baby grand and four of its bench. And it protected itself from falling down stairs, which it did via sensors underneath the front. Several times it stopped and turned around at just the right moment. The remote control is almost all you need to completely control it. Only thing it might not do is raise the vacuum suction to high, which I did by hitting the control button twice on the device itself. The remote allows you to tell it to start cleaning, which it does in ‘auto’ mode without need for supervision or direction. Another button tells it to clean the edges of your house. Another directs it to spot clean, while a fourth tells it to return to the docking station to charge. Finally, there’s pause control and directional arrows to manually tell it where to go. So while it lacks Wi-Fi connectivity or an app to download, it doesn’t need one. The result is a device that gives users arguably the greatest bang for the buck of any robot vac on the market. Only weakness I saw was it had difficulty locating the home base to recharge. There is a fair amount of furniture my unit needs to navigate around. After several failed attempts, I finally had to steer it with the remote. However, when it finally saw it, it docked perfectly. In addition to the unit and remote control, the shipment also included two bins, one for vacuuming and the other for mopping, two washable mop cloths that velcro to the mop bin, a cleaning tool, batteries for the remote, and an adequately detailed owner’s manual. This is a very solid and smartly built little device. Clearly not a first-gen or a cheaply made machine. A lot of thought went into it and it shows. My only regret is I’m limited to five stars. Seventeen seems more like it.