iRobot Roomba Vac Robot Vacuum (Q0120) - Easy to use, Power-Lifting Suction, Multi-Surface Cleaning, Smart Navigation Cleans in Neat Rows, Self-Charging, Alexa, 675

The iRobot 675 has changed my life. I’m a mom to 4 young children living in a 1880 square foot house on a large wooded lot. My kids are outside A LOT and track in all kinds of dirt, mud, leaves, grass, etc. My husband, while I love him, is also kind of a mess and has a bad habit of not wiping his shoes and bringing in a ton of sawdust from his projects. On top of all of that, add in the fact that children under 7 really don’t know how to eat properly and drop about seven thousand crumbs per meal per child. Our floors, wood, tile, and carpet, have been a disaster for years. Enter the Roomba. I have been eyeing this little piece of wizardry for years and wondering if this could be the tool that could change my life. I swept and vacuumed (with a Dyson DC33) multiple times a day. I was constantly telling guests, “hey sorry about the floor but I think we’re just gross and I can never get on top of it”. Well, after finally biting the bullet I regret that I didn’t buy a Roomba years ago. I don’t have to apologize to guests and I can finally walk barefoot in my house without having 100 tiny crumbs attaching to the bottom of my feet. I love this thing more than I have ever loved any appliance or cleaning tool I have every owned. About half of our home is our 2 living areas, dining, kitchen, and mud room. The other half are 4 bedrooms and two bathrooms. I have a baby gate dividing the two halves which acts as a barrier that the Roomba can’t get through. I really like having that barrier and if I didn’t use that baby gate I probably would have gone with the 690 for the virtual wall but I don’t see a purpose for it for us. I run the Roomba every night in our living/eating/kitchen area after we pick up the toys and straighten up the house. This is like magic. I always WANT to have things picked up and put away but I didn’t always do that before the Roomba because we are TIRED. But I love running the Roomba so much that since we have owned this thing we have cleaned up every night since we have owned it. Magic. I run the Roomba in the bedroom/bathroom areas 2-3 times a week in our house. Our kids are a little afraid of it (I want them to be, I don’t want them to touch it, and I may have told them it will bite them) and it does make noise so between all of our napping and sleeping I don’t have as much time to run it back there. I don’t mind though, because the bedrooms do not get nearly as dirty as our living areas. The things I wish I would have known before purchasing: - It really does clean all of the floor. It picks everything up. The crumbs and leaves are gone. It doesn’t miss any part of the floor. I was afraid it would kind of get half of the floor and not the other half because it isn’t as intelligent as the higher trim lines of the Roomba. I was wrong. This thing is amazing. I heard from someone else that you shouldn’t watch the Roomba because it will just drive you crazy. This is totally true. I watch it and question every move it makes. Why did it roll right past that crumb? Why is it spending 20 minutes under that couch? Just don’t watch it! It so nice to lay in bed at night, tell it to clean from my smart phone, go to sleep, and wake up in the morning to spotless floors! - I have needed to clean out the dust bin after every cleaning. I read a lot of reviews that said once you get into the swing of things with your Roomba you only need to clean out the dust bin once or twice a week. That hasn’t been true for us. I’m telling you, we are gross. So if your kids are especially messy or you have really messy pets or track in a lot from being outside that might just be your reality. But that’s fine with me because emptying the dustbin is a lot easier than vacuuming my own floors! - It charges really quickly. I thought I’d be waiting half a day for a charge. Not so. Ours charges within an hour which is nice because I like to charge in between doing both halves of my house. With as dirty as our floors get I don’t think the Roomba could do the entire 1880 square feet on one charge. - Unless you really, really want the features the higher end Roombas provide you really shouldn’t look at this vacuum as a cheap item. The technology in this thing is awesome (or at least I think it is, I’m not really super techy). This is a great robot that does an amazing job and seems very durable. - It does make noise. My mother in law commented that she was surprised it made noise. It’s a vacuum. - It has changed my life. I am excited to clean my house. I am excited to pick up toys. Nothing has ever made me happier about cleaning. This thing is the real deal. I wake up to clean floors every morning and I didn’t do any of the work. Get yourself one.

My girlfriend and I purchased this roomba about a month ago for our new apartment that has only hard floors. Disclaimer is we have never used this on carpet. We have a cat and we were tired of manually vacuuming up tons of cat hair each week. SETUP: Setup was pretty easy. I just had to put a few parts together, download the app, and connect the robot to the Wifi. I did have some issues where it said the Wifi password was incorrect even though it wasn't, but after some research I found out that it was because I had special characters in my Wifi password. Why is this a limitation? No idea, kind of ridiculous but changing my Wifi password fixed this problem, and I haven't had any issues since. USE: Using this vacuum is super easy, you just click the start button on the vacuum or in the app. I also linked it together with HomeBridge so I'm able to ask Siri to start to vacuum as well. You can set up a run schedule in the app, but I set it up (again, through HomeBridge), so that it runs when neither of us are home. People say that it's loud when it's running, I think this is definitely overstated. It's nowhere near as loud as a normal vacuum. You can still have a conversation while it's running, but it can be annoying at times. RESULTS: After about a month of running the roomba every day, we finally decided to sweep the floors and picked up pretty much nothing. It has done a fantastic job of keeping our floors clean of dust, cat litter, cat hair, crumbs, and literally anything else. We find that we have to dump the bin about once a week, which is perfectly okay with us because it takes two seconds to do. When we make a small mess, like dropping something in the kitchen, the spot clean function works pretty well. But considering that you have to go pick up the roomba, set it in the right spot, click "spot clean", leave the area for a bit, and then manually move it back to the home, it just becomes more effort than its worth. At that point, grab a broom. DOWNSIDES: There are a few downsides to the roomba. The first of which is that it doesn't clean for the first few feet near its home. After about a month, you could tell a difference between the area immediately around the home and everywhere else in the apartment. This is some kind of software limitation that I don't fully understand, but just be aware of this. The second downside is that this roomba has zero idea where it's going, it just bumps into things to map out your home. Over time, it seems to learn a bit more about the space and does a better job at navigating, but this is just a sacrifice you have to make at this price point. Similarly, this roomba will run over anything. Socks, cords, cat toys, it has no idea about its surroundings so sometimes it gets stuck. We just have to check that we didn't leave anything on the floor before we leave the house, because if we did we probably will have to rescue the roomba when we get home. The software does a good job of alerting you when the robot is stuck, but it's still annoying. More expensive models use a camera to avoid obstacles, preventing these issues. And thirdly, this roomba has no support for vacuuming certain rooms or only certain areas. It has to vacuum your entire home in one go or nothing. Sometimes I wish I could tell it to vacuum the kitchen after I cook dinner, for example. But again, this is just a sacrifice you make at this pricepoint, and iRobot's more expensive models have this feature. OVERALL: For $250 this roomba is totally worth it, but if you can get it on sale like we did (~$150), this roomba is an absolute no-brainer. The lack of obstacle avoidance or ability to specify different rooms or areas to clean is annoying. But that can all be blamed on the fact that we bought the cheapest model that iRobot sells, because their more expensive models DO have these features. At the end of the day, our apartment is extremely clean without us lifting a finger, and that's what counts. 5 stars for the time and effort this roomba has saved us, even if we have to rescue it every few weeks.

My wife wanted one of these, so I finally went all in with this model. I really thought that it was going to be one of those gadgets you get and it quickly becomes just another thing sitting around the house. It works mostly well, with some caveats. If you are looking to purchase this product or a similar one, I recommend you read on and get lots of advice on which one to get. We named our Donald, because it wanders around aimlessly making lots of noise, and it sucks. That said, it does a surprisingly good job. You have to run it every day. It is truly dumb, and has no memory of where it has been. Some days it vacuums some areas multiple times while missing other areas entirely. But if you let it run every day, it does eventually get around to it. I can put up with the noise for about 30 minutes at a time. Some details about my house: I have a small house: about 1100 sq ft. I have fake hardwood floors. I have a short hair dog and a short hair cat, who both shed more than one would expect. I have no carpets. There are some door jams that Donald successfully navigates. I have a loft area and have let Donald wander around up there. He is smart enough to not throw himself down the stairs. When I want him to clean the loft, I just grab the handle and carry him up the stairs and let him loose. When I am tired of listening to his noise, I carry him down stairs, press the docking button and eventually he finds his way home. One thing I was worried about was where to put the docking station. A lot of the models I read about need a large open area for docking. I have a small house and don't have any place with 4 ft of space around it. I do have this spot under the stairs to the loft area. It usually docks just fine. You can see in the picture. It picks up a lot of dirt and pet hair. Cleaning it out at the end of the session is disgusting, but not more so than other bagless systems. The rollers and brushes get clogged up with pet hair and need to be manually removed and have all the hair picked out and then put back in every few days. This is easy to do, but even more disgusting. Oh well, we love our pets. Setting it up and getting the app installed and connected wasn't terribly difficult. For some reason, the second day the app couldn't connect, and getting it reconnected was a pain. However, you don't really need the app. Pressing the buttons on top of the device work just fine for the basic functions you use every day. To get 5 stars Donald would have to be smarter about where he goes and where he's been and less disgusting to clean out.

Update: I bought a Shark and it is fantastic! Sometimes I run both at the same time and if the roomba actually finishes the job, the shark still gets about 10x the dirt up. Until it ran over my dog’s diarrhea. I had to throw it away but I bought a new one and it works just as well. I bought a roomba in 2016 and worked great. It lasted years. I bought this one for a new place this year and when it works, it also works great—meaning it definitely gets up the dirt when it actually goes to the right area. But in 9/10 runs, it gets lost, vacuums the same spot over and over, and is ridiculously loud when it reaches an error and there’s no way to turn it off or down. Almost every run, it doesn’t clean even half of the whole area and then spends 75% of its run time “off” trying to find its way back to its home when it’s “done.” So if I’m not there to babysit it, it runs down its whole battery and I can’t run it again for hours. Most of the time, though, it doesn’t make it home because it got stuck for no reason. I’ve watched it vacuum for only 5 minutes then declare it’s done 3 feet from its base only to move around the entire floor before ending in an error. When I’m home and it’s on, I have to pick it up and put it on its base to start over and then turn it back on with the app and hope it finishes the job. “Why can’t I just place it in the middle of the floor and start it again,” you ask? Because it immediately says it’s finished the whole job and attempts (and fails) to go home. So you might ask, “Why can’t I press the button on the actual vacuum?” Because for some reason starting it from the app gives it that 1/10 time that it’ll clean properly. I have to repeat this process 5x. It takes all day to vacuum the whole floor. There is a spot under my couch that it gets stuck, so I have to rescue it and unless I move it 10+ feet, it goes straight back to the same spot. I don’t understand how, in 8 years, this product got so much worse. I am in a new place, but I have all the same furniture. And seeing the notification “Dustin Jr. Jr. successfully completed a job!” makes me irrationally angry because all the stupid thing did was ram itself into furniture or the wall over and over again for 5 min, 2 feet from its base and then docks itself.

OK, let me just say right off the bat that I just received The Bot (which is what I named it) today, so I can't comment on quality, longevity, tendency to break down, etc. I just wanted to give my first impressions. Over the last couple of years, I've known people who have had Roombas and they've been very happy with them. I had been looking to buy one for quite some time, but I wanted to wait until I found one that was affordably priced (IMO) while still having some more advanced technology, not too basic. The one I got was the 600 series (the Roomba 675), which works with Wi-Fi and has an app that you can download, whether you have an iPhone or a Droid. For some reason I was under the impression that it would work with Alexa, but it seems I was mistaken. It came in a very sturdy box and included a spare filter, a page with quick setup instructions, and a thankfully short owner's manual in the usual 3 languages, English (I noticed a few typos LOL), French, and Spanish. I was able to set it up very quickly, basically putting the dock on the floor near an outlet, plugging it in, and putting The Bot in the dock. It started charging immediately, although the owner's manual says that it already comes charged and could work right away. Anyway, while it sat in the dock charging, I downloaded the app and went through setting up the Wi-Fi, also a snap. The first time I ran it on my tile floors downstairs, it was because I accidentally pushed the button in the app LOL. It found its way around my front room, bumping gently into this and that, not hard enough to damage any of the moldings, paint, furniture, etc. At some point it decided to go back to the dock, probably to charge, and it docked perfectly and started charging. The second time I sent it for another run, I kind of had to encourage it to go into the other room, which it did. After about 15 minutes I ordered it to go back to its dock through the app. It took a little while for it to find its way back to the other room and dock, but again, it went back and docked itself perfectly. The first time it encountered a floor mat by my front door, it backed off, but the second time, it went onto the mat and vacuumed it (yay!) In my kitchen, I have a very ergonomic and cushioned rubber mat near the sink. It had no problem climbing up onto that and vacuuming that (yay!) The owner's manual has excellent information with diagrams, all of the parts being labeled, troubleshooting issues, and maintenance instructions. Regarding maintenance, it recommends emptying the bin after each use, cleaning the filter and brushes once a week, cleaning the front caster wheel every 2 weeks, and cleaning the side brush, the cliff sensors, and the charging contacts once a month. I do plan to empty the bin after each use (more on that later), but the rest seems kind of excessive to me, since I'm the only human in the house and I have no pets. I really only plan to use this maybe once a week upstairs and downstairs. I can eyeball the parts and see if they need to be cleaned periodically. Regarding maintenance of the various parts, in terms of replacing them, they recommend replacing the filter every 2 months, the brushes every 6 to 12 months, and the front caster wheel every 12 months (not sure why). This also seems kind of frequent to me, so again, I will just monitor their conditions and change them when I feel it's necessary. They have diagrams for how to clean and change all the various parts. One of my friends had a Roomba that was so loud it would scare the bejesus out of you if it started up and you weren't expecting it. I would say that mine does not seem to be that loud. To my surprise, when I emptied the dustbin, which was very easy, there was a lot of dirt, hair, and dust. So I'm very satisfied. I did follow The Bot around here and there, and watched it pick up things off the floor. I didn't see it leave anything obvious behind, and certainly my floors are cleaner than they were before. I couldn't find any specs, so I took measurements myself (although I guess you can probably find them online). The Bot is about 13 inches in diameter and seems to be not even 3 inches high. It had no problem going under most of my furniture, which I'm really happy about because there's always dust under there. Little update: I took The Bot upstairs, and let him cruise around for a while. It's a mix of carpet and tile. There was a good amount of dust and dirt accumulated in the bin. He did a great job going under the bed, vacuuming various floor mats, navigating door sills, etc. So far so good. All in all, caveat being that this is only the first day, I'm very satisfied with it, and I hope it has a very long, healthy, productive life here!

This is my second iRobot roomba. My first one’s brush compartment broke and it’s so handy for vacuuming up pet hair (I only have hard surfaces and a low pile area rug) that I wanted to replace it. This version was much cheaper, but you get what you pay for. It still gets the job done, but it seems to miss corner dirt. Probably because the side brush keeps popping off. I find it stuck somewhere almost every time it vacuums. (See photo.). My old model screwed this piece in. This model just pops it on. Overall still worthwhile in the hastle it saves cleaning while you are not at home. The app is amazing which is why I went with this brand again. (Just be aware that it really can’t replace a stand up vacuum for carpet beating. I still have one of those to run over my area rug and furniture every once in a while.)

The Roomba is something I always had on my "Wish List." I waited for YEARS to get one, and now there are so many different versions of it I was so confused ordering. Reviews helped me the most in choosing, which is why I'm taking the time to review this one! I have 2 dogs, and 2 cats. My two dogs are 75 pounds each, full of sand at ALL TIMES (current construction in the back yard does NOT help). We had sand everywhere, AT ALL TIMES. Our furniture (even with the pads on the feet) started scratching our new wood floor because we couldn't keep up with the fur and the sand every day. We bought Shark Stick vacuum from Target, used it a couple of times, but realized we are honestly way to busy/lazy to spend our time vacuuming ourselves! That vacuum is now a dust collector in the closet, as we decided to bite the bullet and just try out the Roomba. We opened it, let it charge overnight (only needs 2-3 hours) and used it one Saturday morning. This thing just started scooting around, cleaning up corners I hadn't reached with a vacuum in weeks! It did have trouble docking the first time, as we chose a bad spot to keep the charging base. The charging base is the only thing I would change. it seems a little light weight and would be better if it was heavier and easier for the Roomba to dock to it without being SOLID against a wall. Anyways, once we moved it, it works perfectly every time now! We connected Roomba to our Alexa, and when we leave the house we pick up the dogs toys, and tell Alexa to turn on the Roomba. We come home to a fully charged Roomba, and a beautifully clean house! Our dogs don't mind it when they are by it, and our cats don't even know it's there. We also use it on our second level, but we only use it down there when we are home as it can't make it back up stairs to the charging dock on it's own (obviously). But again, we either press the clean button down there, or tell Alexa to start the Roomba and continue on with our daily tasks, not even thinking about physically vacuuming the house ourselves. We replaced all the soft pads on our furniture, repaired our floors in the places it was scratched, and now our furniture glides like butter across them! **We have a huge rug in our downstairs living room, and Roomba has cleaned this very well without getting stuck, but most of our house is tile or wood floors. Roomba did get stuck on my bathroom rug, but it stopped immediately and had no damage to the Roomba what so ever! Another note, Our couches are too low to the ground for the Roomba to fit underneath (Not Roomba's fault) so before we turn the Roomba on, we will sometimes slide the couch forward a foot that day, so it gets a bit under the couch. Then when we get home, we slide the couch back. The next day we will slide the couch backwards a foot, and when we get home move it back to it's original place. (Sand creeps under the couch frequently is the only reason we have to do this) Another random side note- The Roomba has a very easy to clean basket! (ours is full EVERY DAY) which is embarrassing, and makes anyone wish they didn't have 4 animals and a messy husband, but whatever :) They recommend replacements of different parts every couple months/twice a year depending on the part. We found a 8 pack of each part online(Amazon) for $20 TOTAL, so maintenance on this device is going to be low cost as well. All around- saved my sanity and I can go barefoot in my house!

Disclaimer: I bought this model, 675, with my own money and these are my honest opinions. I've never owned one of these and literally bought it on a whim. I was initially looking at a cheaper Eufy brand vacuum because I trust its parent company (Anker), but once I saw that iRobot had Alexa enabled and app integrated robots I went for this one. A lot of my house consists of smart devices so it only made sense. The Alexa integration was very simple. Just download the app, log into your wifi, and the Roomba connects very easily. Then you just have to enable the iRobot Home skill in your Alexa app. I had trouble figuring out the appropriate commands but just google search "roomba alexa comands" to find them. Once you set up scheduled cleaning in the iRobot app you don't have to control it through Alexa very often unless you want to do multiple cleanings in a day. I placed the dock appropriately, following spacial instructions, and charged the robot for about an hour. The instructions say 3 hours initially but I checked the app and it was fully charged. The Roomba responds very quickly to the app and it started cleaning right when I tapped "Clean" on the app. It moves very randomly and can seem to get stuck for a bit but it usually finds its way. I have an area rug with dark brown/black sections that I wasn't worried about but it will not pass over them because it assumes they're "cliffs." I'm grateful for the "cliff protection" feature and can live with this hiccup, just beware if you have black rugs. I have others that are solid chocolate brown and it passes over those just fine. I was frustrated that it wouldn't return to base the first couple times, but that's because I moved it manually because it couldn't find its way out from under my dining table and I was inpatient. IF YOU MOVE IT DURING CLEANING IT CAN'T FIND THE BASE. It will only find its way back to the dock it it starts there and is left uninterrupted. Occasionally it will actually get stuck and it will turn off and chime some tones to get your attention. You also get a notification on your phone to go help it. The only times it's gotten really stuck was on the edge of a really high pile shag rug (which is warned against in the instructions) and when it wedged under a headboard that was just the perfect height to pin it to the ground. Some have said it sucks up cords but I keep my cords/electronics VERY tidy so its not an issue for me. Emptying the bin is very easy, and it filled up really quickly the first few runs, which is expected. Its kind of gross how much it captures in my house because I keep it very clean as it is. It was able to pick up standard clay cat litter fairly well. Toward the end of its cleaning cycle when the bin and filter were more obstructed it didn't always capture the litter though, which is what you'd expect. It did bump into my cats' food and water bowls and push them around a bit. It worries me a little that water may spill if I'm not there to monitor it. I've ordered a "iRobot Dual Mode Virtual Wall Barrier (Renewed)" that i'll put in "Lighthouse" mode to fix that (the renewed model is half the price of a new one so I'm giving it a shot. it has a 90 day amazon guarantee). Overall I love this thing and it's only been 2 days. It's very convenient to be able to schedule cleaning when your away at work, or if you are expecting company and have other things to prepare. I think my Roomba will continue to serve me well. If any glaring issues come up I'll update this review as needed. UPDATE 9/19/19 I still love the thing. I ordered some white felt tape and put that over the black borders of my trouble rug under my couches so it seamlessly travels over those areas. I also ordered 8 2" risers for my couch and loveseat because they were just barely too low for the roomba. The iRobot virtual walls (Renewed) are a life saver. I have 3 of them now, one to protect the cat food bowls, one to block off the dining room (it gets caught in the chair legs forever and would rather it spend time in other areas), and one to block off a room with a high pile shag rug. I've officially "roomba-proofed" my house and I have it clean everyday while I'm at work and I havent gotten a "Roomba is stuck" notification since. I love this thing and highly recommend it as long as you have REALISTIC EXPECTATIONS and READ THE INSTRUCTIONS.