Best robot vacuum?

[Eliot Rosewater]

Suggestions?

[FarPoint]

1. Today....ordered online ....delivery on 11/24/21...

I just bought the iRobot 8 with wifi from Costco for a Christmas gift.......I watched a few YouTube videos...highly recommended $560....



https://www.costco.com/.product.100600738.html?ADBUTLERID=homepage_item_drivers_roomba

[Pobeka]

2. Jetson's robot

[TheRealNorth]

3. Lol

I am curious as well- I thought about getting one, but when I saw what those things cost I decided I will stick with my Dirt Devil. Especially when nothing lasts as long as it used to without breaking.

[WHITT]

4. Ya Beat Me To It

I was gonna say Rosey.

[Eliot Rosewater]

5. Tried that, she kept asking me out on a date, had to return her!

[Pobeka]

15. LOL.

Thanks for what will probably be the best laugh of the day!

[Corgigal]

6. Got a roomba,

She is 3 years old now. Still works, and she goes under the dinning table to vacuum. The amount of back pain not experienced, is worth it alone. She is kinda cute. I don’t know the prices anymore, but we have the basic one.

[Eliot Rosewater]

10. Thanks...

My concern is my SO will not be happy if it doesn't produce quite a bit of dirt or whatever, she will assume it is not cleaning.

Does it seem to get most of the dirt or stuff?

[Corgigal]

17. Yeah,

she keeps going until she finds most of it. You can always redirect if you see a spot. Kind of cute when she beeps and go back to her docking port. My corgi dog hates her, ha.

[packman]

7. I just open the front/back door and use a leaf blower

[Eliot Rosewater]

11. Tried that, my neighbors kept complaining.

[AZSkiffyGeek]

8. We have a self-cleaning Shark we got last year ran around $350, I believe?

Works better than the older Roomba we got about 7 years ago.
The thing is you need to run them regularly - we run it every other day - and make sure you empty it regularly.
It's not something you can just do a weekly vacuum with. But it does get the pet hair up from our one floor. I'm seriously thinking about getting a second for our basement.

[Eliot Rosewater]

9. Thanks...

[PBC_Democrat]

12. I have the Neato Botvac D3 ...

Love it!

I kinda wish it had a larger dust bin, but it works very well.
It gets corners almost perfectly, goes under the beds, and sends me a map of the vacuumed area when finished.

Added bonus - it works with Alexa. As I'm headed out to play golf, I simply ask Alexa to 'Tell Neato to clean the house'.

Mine is four years old and there is no reduction in cleaning ability.

[Eliot Rosewater]

22. Thanks

I thought you were saying it was a "neato" product but that is the name of the company...

[IcyPeas]

13. I got a Samsung when it was on sale. damn thing is smarter than me.

[Zorro]

14. I've got a couple

Ecovacs Deebot OZMO 950 for upstairs, Ecovacs Deebot OZMO T8+ for downstairs.

Both do a pretty decent job -- it's interesting to watch them disappear under the beds to vacuum those places that are rarely cleaned -- although I prefer the 950 to the T8+; the T8+ has an automatic bin cleaning capability, but invariably wads of hair get stuck in the outlet ports and has to be removed by hand.

Both map out your floor plan, and both follow a pretty efficient cleaning pattern. They can get stuck on oriental carpet fringes, and they have a "mopping" capability that we haven't bothered to use yet.

There's an advertised $200 off sale for the Ecovacs N8+ at Best Buy right now; don't know how that model stacks up with the ones we have, but it probably has the same kinds of bells and whistles.

[Eliot Rosewater]

21. Thanks

[Bayard]

16. Do they really pick up much pet hair?

Like, from 3 oversized wooly bears? Do they clog up much?

[AZSkiffyGeek]

18. My self-cleaning one does well if it's run daily or every other day

Longer than that and it tends to need me to manually clean it out. But it works great on tile/laminate floor with a couple rugs.

You also need to make sure that there are no particularly large items on the floor as those can clog it. I need to clean out the self-cleaning receptacle weekly, and clean the machine about monthly (it gets hair caught up in the wheel wells and such. But I just use my regular vacuum's hose attachment and it cleans easily.

[Midnight Writer]

19. I had a Roomba, but it became self-aware so I set it free. Hope it is doing OK.

[Archae]

20. I have a white Roomba.

Works good.