V3s Pro

We've only had the A30 Pro for a week, but we are very happy with how it performs. The package arrived one day earlier than expected. The box and contents were intact and well packaged. No items were missing. The set up instructions were easy to follow and quick. Once we had the app installed, it was easy to see the mapped zones and schedule cleaning times, mark zones for sweeping and mopping, or only sweeping. It sweeps, mops and leaves the surfaces dry quickly. Not only does it perform well on the hard floors but also on the carpets. You just have to be careful of tassels/fringe on rugs, and wires/cables on the floor that can impede smooth operation. It is very quiet while operating. The device lets you know when it is starting and ending / returning to the dock with audible voicing. The only loud sound is when the device empties itself. I have motivated a couple of colleagues to invest in this device and a few more are thinking about it. We have named it "Dusty".

The media could not be loaded. This robot vacuum has become such a vital step in my everyday routine. It is ran every day, twice. This vacuum has not only made my floors cleaner but help me organize and put everything back to where it belongs, dog toys, blankets, pillows, shoes, etc.Every morning I pick up clothes, dog toys, shoes, and anything else on the floor or under the bed. I run the vacuum until it dies in the bed room. It is a little loud so I wait till everyone is up and ready for the day so it can work without people being in the bedroom. My carpet is low/medium pile so it does a good job of getting all the top hair, dirt, etc from the carpet. However it will leave huge fuzzies from dog toys. But it will move them out from under the bed so I can pick it up easier. I would suggest if you have carpet that you do a deep suction vacuuming atleast once a month to get the deeper dirt, but overall it works awesome. I even noticed it smells cleaner and my dust headache went away. I actually sleep better and wake up more refreshed. It also leaves a pattern in the carpet so if you leave it unattended you can see exactly where it went, and it had gone everywhere. Even under the bed, dresser, and nightstand.Before it dies I run it in the small bathroom we have for 10-15 minutes, I shake out the bath mats, and let it clean all that dirt up before I lay them back down for it to run over.At night I run the vacuum around our open floor plan living and kitchen area. We don't have a table but an island that the vacuum can easily go under. I clean the island, put the chairs & garbage can on top, pick up the dogs dishes & toys, blankets, and pillows. I run the vacuum in that area space until it dies, since I go to bed I'm not sure how long it runs but it always finds the charging port and is ready for the morning run fully charged. I noticed that if you turn off the lights under the couch it can get stuck since it's so dark so I put a small night light back there so it can "see". It goes under my ottoman as well. Since it's low pile carpet and hard flooring there is no pattern to check and see if it got anything but I have not noticed any areas where it has not gone. Definitely make sure you can pick up all that you can so it has more access.After each clean I empty the dust bin to see how much it collected. It only takes a minute and I like seeing each rooms progress. I'm always surprised on the amount it picks up since I run it every day.If you have bigger spaces or more rooms I would suggest making a schedule to do rooms every other day. Or get one for each floor, as they are cheaper than sharks, roombas etc. and is good quality.If you have built in carpet all over I would try the deep suction vacuum. I have a mix of tile, vinyl ( I think), and carpet. So the mop was not worth it.THIS VACUUM GOT DOG FOOD STAINS OUT OF MY LOW PILE CARPET. This vacuum could be your only vacuum if you have hard flooring and low pile carpet.

We've had Count Vacula going on three months now, and we're pretty happy with him. With two cats and a yellow lab mix who sheds constantly, the Count has really reduced the amount of "hair tumbleweeds" blowing through the house. I think this is a sentiment expressed by most people who have a robot vacuum, but it was surprising just how much stuff was in there the first time we ran it (and is in there every time we've run it since). For the reduction in pet hair alone, this was well worth the cost and we'd purchase again.Pros:1.) Sucks up pet hair and dust like nobody's business.2.) Super easy to empty.3.) Mostly pretty good about spitting things out that don't fit. He tried to vacuum up my phone charger once and ended up just kind of dragging it around the house until I rescued it. No harm done.4.) Related to #3, the way that it works, there's no destruction done if it does run over a cord or something.5.) We usually put it up manually (either pick him up and set him on the charger or hit the home button) but we have come home after the scheduled time once or twice to find that he's run and is sitting happily on his charging dock--that said, he does have some issues with getting stuck (see cons).6.) Came with some replacement parts so we won't have to buy them ourself for a good while.7.) The remote is nice and the scheduling feature works perfectly (FYI you have to hit the play button once or the vacuum has to be already running for the machine to receive any scheduling changes you make. It'll beep if you've successfully sent the schedule.)Cons:1.) If you have anything that's around the height of the vacuum, he will shove himself under it and get stuck. He will also get stuck on top of things around an inch high if possible.- In our house, the bathroom vanity and a trunk with legs are the exact height for him to drive himself beneath them and get wedged. When this happens, he will eventually beep for help and turn off, so if we weren't home, the worst that would happen is we'd come home to find him asleep under the bathroom vanity.- We had an inch high piece of trim going from one room to another (that we have since taken out because it was a temporary remodeling thing), but he'd drive himself onto it and then decide he could go no farther. I suspect as most homes don't have stuff like this going on, it won't be a problem for most people.(As a Note: I do plan to e6000 something onto the little ridge that is supposed to help sense places he won't fit in hopes that it'll end the wedging and let him run smoothly. So maybe an idea for anyone else with this problem?)2.) The vacuum doesn't stop when it's full, which means it'll sometimes keep on running even when it's not doing anything. I won't complain about the size of the bin because given the size of a robot vacuum, how much bigger could it really be? But I do wish the vacuum sensed when it was full and beeped and turned off until emptied.3). I think all robot vacuums have problems with the color black, but he won't go over a mostly black rug.4.) He pushes his home charger around a lot. I'm not sure why he doesn't have some internal sense of like "my home is always in X spot and maybe I shouldn't shove it along the wall while I'm vacuuming next to it" but he doesn't. If he comes at it sideways, he will crash right into it. I suspect some command strips or something that wouldn't damage the floor could fix this though. We just haven't bothered with it since it takes a whole second to deal with.5.) Not so much a con for us, but I can see how it could be for others so I'm including it: he usually senses a drop and doesn't go past it, BUT he has, two times in the past three months, launched himself off the little dip into our living room. If you live in a single level house or have a low drop like we do where it won't harm the machine, this won't matter much, but this might not be ideal if you're going to run him in an upstairs area.Takeaways: This vacuum is exactly what we needed. For now. Are there better models out there? Definitely. Do they cost what this one does (especially considering there were some steep discounts on at the time of purchase)? No. For the most part, despite some issues, we're pretty happy with it and what it's done to keep our home cleaner, reduce how often we have to clean, and just keeping the air less dusty and dandery.Our hope is that we can upgrade in a year or two when there are more affordable self-emptying models on the market, but Count Vacula definitely gets the job done and is a welcome addition to our home for now.