I have a “dumb” random nav robot and it does a great job, but it is oddly satisfying and fun to watch it bounce around and if you have a bit of visible debris, it’s fun to try and predict when it’ll finally pick it up and when it does, it’s almost like watching a sport! I get lowkey excited when it picks stuff up! Yes, I know I’m a boring person😂
@@sethfeldpausch4337 I have a bunch of these roombas from various gifts over the years. I like to watch them all go at the same time and pinball into each other 🥰 Let the daily robot war commence! 😈
You should try getting one, lol! When I got my first one, I was fascinated, and watched it for hours! :D They're still amazing though, and save you much back-breaking effort!
Michael Joiner Well if you’re cleaning your vacuum cleaner, you are a vacuum cleaner. Something people should be doing with their traditional vacuums anyway.
@@SimonWoodburyForget Me either, you basically either spending more time actually cleaning with a vacuum or just cleaning up the robot itself. With a quality "dumb" vacuum it just make sense to spend the 20 or so minutes a week or so to do the vacuuming than to spend the same amount of time and frequency if not more cleaning it, emptying it and so on. Also likely spending more money while your at it.
Later we're going to make cleaning robot to clean vacuum robot. . . . And after that, we're also going to make cleaning robot that clean cleaning robot that clean vacuum robot.
4:26 Taking care of your pet roomba is important, folks. Feeding them and giving them exercise isn't enough. You have to make sure you clean them regularly, too.
Best purchase of my life was my Deebot 930. I got hardwood floors with rugs and 1 carpet bedroom, high thresholds and it’s so powerful it nearly launches itself over them to get into bedrooms. I’ve noticed it also gets more clever over time and it figured out how to get up the threshold to my dinning room and navigates around the chairs better and better every time. With hardwood floor you notice when there’s a tiny bit of dirt on the floor and I hate the feeling of it on my feet, I run my robot daily and my floors have never been cleaner.
@@Telcomvic A friend of mine did a local comic strip years ago called Anndroid based on her. Fit right into the 80's. Now we have Android in our pockets.
Robot vacuums are really nice until the dog throws up all over the floor...You don't want to come home to it. Trust me. It drags it all over the place...
@BMore yeah, good point. My pup has yarfed on the floor in the night and I've missed it until after work before. Wouldn't wish that mess to be roomba'd on the floors of my enemies, tbh
I had the 1st gen Roomba for many years, and it was good to OK, technology being what it was back then. I now have one of the lower end Neato vac's (I upgraded the battery to the bigger one from the higher priced vac) and it is an amazing piece of technology. We have 2 large dogs and a cat, and we run it every day. It fills up the bin every time, but because of that we rarely have to break out the big vac. Are they worth it? To us - YES.
Just got a room a e5 LOVE IT . Made for pet hair. I've wanted one for years after a saw friend of mine Roomba. He turns it on before he goes to work and when he comes home the floors are clean :-)
I love mine, especially the fact that it goes under the beds and dressers. You have to run them daily and just be diligent about emptying the bin and cleaning the filters and rollers.
In short - YES. The thing will do a round every day while you are not even home, instead of you bothering to clean once in a blue moon. It might not absolve you from cleaning completely, but it sure does reduce the tedium by a lot. Best few hundred bucks you ever spend.
I scheduled my robot vacuum cleaner to start cleaning every week day at 4pm, by the time I'm home from job I have pretty shiny and clean floor, not perfect off course, but definitely worth the price :)
@@Martel4 Yes works good for cat hair, i have two cats and I taped a stick with a string to a bell behind it to keep the cats busy chasing it xD and I also glued googly eyes on it to make it look funny while going around the flat cleaning.
@@Celentar What about servicing it as they said? I would feels like your still wasting the same 20 or so minutes every week/two cleaning it, replacing batteries (recharge ables will have to be replaced every now and then), emptying out it tray and/or etc. As you were with a high quality "dumb" vacuum.
@@rickytorres9089 Cleaning it 20 min a week doesn't even come close to the amount of time you spend cleaning up after cats and their hair without it. If you really wanna keep the place clean, you lose a good 1 hour or more A DAY cleaning cat hair out of your place manually. So spending a few minutes every weekend to brush cat hair out of the roomba's brushes and filters is overall a lot less work.
About a month ago I bought a Neato D7 after watching many of your reviews. I am very satisfied with it. It has brought me a lot of peace of mind and save me so much time. I plan to upload my video reviews next week. Thank you so much for your research! My next major purchase will be a carpet shampooer after I watch your videos.
All those household appliances, cars etc, don't save us time. We're just tired when we're coming home from work to do anything different than dropping on the couch, throw a TV dinner in the microwave, and turn on the telly.
Definitely worth it. The S5 Max is one of the best purchases I have done. We run it daily and our 160m² house is done in about one hour. We used to vacuum 1-2 times a week before but the floors and carpets looks way cleaner now with the robot. The mopping function also works great. Sure it's not as effective as a dedicated steamer, but since you can have it done on a daily basis its not needed. And the little bastard is quite smart.
i7+ here and for us it is a game changer. We have porcelain floors throughout our home. The bedrooms look like wood and the rest of the home has textured surfaces. The i7 does an amazing job and get all the pet hair to boot, we have 2 dogs. It has made dusting almost a thing of the past. Dusting is a once a month job and you have to really look hard to find any. Its ability to empty itself makes usage a breeze. It also has the ability to mark on the map where you want it to keep out. It also works well with our smart home voice system. Just tell roomba to vacuum a certain room and off it goes. I can also control it where ever I am. If guest are coming over tonight, I can have the fridge make more ice and have roomba clean the guest bath, entry, reading room, and living room.
Do you know how noisy they get? One of my hang ups is my pupper- she's crated during the day when I'd optimally run a robo-vac. I wouldn't want to stress her unduly.
I sell these as part of my job and this video is a great primer into the robot vacs. I kind of already had a preference for the Neato bots due to the navigation capability so it's nice to see that opinion reflected.
Ive been using it a little over a week🌼 and I'm amazed at how well this little guy works! I wanted something to just pick up dog hair between cleans but it does so much more. 100% worth it
@@monsterboomer8051 I don't know what your future will hold, but I can guarantee it won't be what you expect, and there will be plenty of things you don't like about it.
Love mine - we have a dog and don't have to vacuum 2/3 of the house that's tile, nor the wall-to-wall bedrooms. We do use a manual vacuum (without rotating brush) on our area rugs since rotating brushes will destroy any area rug. We may do some extra manual vacuuming every six months. Love it - it's an iRobot s9+ with self-emptying home base.
This falls for the same fallacies I've encountered so often before with robot vacuum reviews. Robot vacuums do not need to clean a house on the first pass. The whole point is they require almost zero labour to operate so they can be used much more frequently than a manual vacuum with less human effort. So it may take a week of daily use to achieve the results of a day's intensive hand vacuuming, it does not matter. Give it a month and you will start to appreciate why folks like me would never go back to regular manual house vacuuming. In the first month you discover those places where they they can get hung up and you arrange things to avoid that particular fail happening again.Sure for special situations like a split flour bag catastrophe or cleaning the car manual is the way to go but for regular house cleaning you can't beat them. I've had my primitive iRobt for over a decade, it's poorly, made, it was expensive and I've had to replace a burnt out current sense resistor once (with a higher wattage one) but overall it has been great.
Before my robot vacuum, I vacuumed once every two weeks if I'm feeling diligent. Now, it gets vacuumed twice a week... It doesn't need to deep clean. My problem is if the thing doesn't have enough battery life to get to the whole floor, and every time it starts up, it vacuums the same area instead of the area that it didn't vacuum last time.
@@GeorgeMonet What are you talking about ? My manual Vax vacuum cleaner takes 2kW, the Roomba takes 22V DC at 1.25A which is 27.5 Watts or 1.375% as much as a typical barrel vacuum (that is the charger rating). So I could run my Roomba 73 days consecutively for the same amount of electricity it takes to run my Vax once (I'm making the assumption here that I would use the Vax for the same time it takes to charge my Roomba, which I think, lacking more detailed data, is a reasonable assumption). I have 4.3kW of solar PV on the roof of my house, I drive an electric car which is plugged in at home when not in use and I still get a $3000 check from AGL for electricity I feed back to the grid in excess of the power I use from them, every year. I don't think I'm wasting electricity.
"Falls for the same fallacies"? No, he's a guy who really, really knows the subject inside-and-out on the capabilities of every MODERN brand available to him, and you're somebody with no name and no picture, trying to sound important by bashing a real expert and then rambling about how much you love your lousy old iRobot. You're angry at the guy for knowing newer stuff when you don't. You shouldn't make that so obvious.
@@jamescarter3196 Ad hominem attacks don't trump facts I'm afraid. My iRobot is old, it's on its third battery now but it functions fine, my Vax is a month old, that also works fine. They both have their place in my home.
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My problem is more dog hair, and my robot vacuum works great for that, it saves me many time.
I've used one for a year now and I love it. You do have to clean them out each time though. I don't really mind because it only takes a couple minutes.
The one he rec'd looked pretty cool, with those 90 degree angles. I get what you mean, though. I'd probably still do the corners and such manually couple times a month.
The Neato Botvac is badass. I've owned one for a few years now and I can honestly say it's the best purchase I've ever made. Buy it at Bed, Bath and Beyond so you can use the 20% off coupon
@@bluray2598 Agree. Got my roomba for 7 years now and my floor looks like I lick it clean every single day. Btw.: My roomba is round, but has a... Dunno how to call it - helicopter like brush on one of its edges that swipes out corners. Works.
Love your channel (a vacuum channel that I love, who knew?) Just wondering if you might be able to add a "black carpet" test to your methodology? Loving... wait, liking my Deebot, but the black throw rug is killing its ability to clean in our dining room. I tried the white paper trick, but that didn't work for me. (might be how I put them on, since I couldn't find pics of anybody handling a 900 or 930 series in this manner, but have read a few reports that it is a way to do it, nothing as positive as the Roomba community fixes) But, even if I did get it to work, it shouldn't be that I have to disable a sensor myself to get it to work properly. I've even heard the Deebot spool up for carpet detect at the dark edge border, then back up onto the hardwood floor... I would think it could go "oh, I detected carpet, must just be black carpet!) Keep up the testing!
they are great in that they are very low profile and go under all the furniture (usually) and get to places you usually don't see - if you get a roomba they don't do wet things or floors well at all (there are other mop robots for that ... but they do a great job with dust and small particles..)
I got an eufy robovac 11s for $150, it was a special one day sale. It is absolutely worth it for a college apartment. Not only does it clean my carpet well, but it heavily incentivizes me to keep my floor uncluttered. I wouldn't recommend it for high end carpets or multi-story houses, but it is perfect for an apartment space.
bought one of these for our house, Eufy 11. Wife was sick and needed some helps so I figured it could help out. found I had to baby sit it when it was cleaning due to getting stuck all the time. worked great for grouted tile floors and hardwood but worthless on carpet. Bought a turbo hard canister upright. Found out that the robvacs were not cleaning at all on the carpet. Amazing at how much crap the new upright pulled out of the carpet. I moved the vacbot to the garage and on smooth concrete it does a great job, often cleaning places where I can't get to such as under vehicles. Really catches a lot of fine dust that I didn't have the patience to clean before. I now have 2 of these in the garage and they keep it neat as a pin. Except when, like the puking dog, I get an oil leak.
My parents got the Roborock and I had to help them set up the app. It’s pretty useful and the app makes it so easy to navigate it. They have wooden floors and now they barely clean it themselves. The vacuum also has a mop adapter/feature, and it works pretty well for like 80% of stuff on the floor. As for cleaning the robot. It’s pretty easy for the most part, I would prefer just cleaning that than the whole house and moving the couch to get underneath. Oh yeah that’s also a great thing. This robot fits under the couch and picks up all the dust from there. I think for my parents it was worth it, mainly because their backs can’t afford to be cleaning.
I just wanted to piggyback a little on this video. I just recently bought a neato robot vacuum (based on your recommendation) and I couldn't be happier. It is especially great because I have two large dogs and hair would pile up after a couple days. I cannot recommend a robot vacuum enough if you have pets. It has made our house feel so much cleaner. Thanks for the great videos!
@@marycarricaburu3683 My vacuum fits under most of my furniture (couches and coffee cables.) The hutch it gets stuck under I put the no-go lines around it in the app. Also I run mine on a schedule, I clean up briefly when it starts to clear the floor of cords and dog toys. It doesn't do too bad with cords, but I just make sure it's not going to run something over.
@@marycarricaburu3683 Cords you'll want to pick up or hid out of the way. Chairs and tables haven't been a problem for us yet. I have a 6 chair wooden table set and its no problem. If the vac can physically fit between the lets it will, if not it'll get as close as it can. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and find the chairs moved a bit lol.
My son bought the ilife last year and ran it twice a day for a year. It is still perfect. (Clean it after each use) He bought me one this Christmas. I love it. For a little over $100.00 it is a deal breaker. Even if it dies after a year I can afford another one.
I won't even watch the video, but I'll share my opinion. Yes! Robot vacuums are worth it. I've had a Roomba 980 for over 4 years. I run it downstairs every weeknight while I sleep, my floors are always clean, and it still runs like new. I was terrible at sweeping the floors, and this solved my problem.
I have had the neato botvac for 5 years and still running. It is a little tired and I'm thinking of getting a new battery. We plan to buy another and put the old one upstairs for lite duty. Great too. Doesn't slam baseboards like others.
We have a robot vacuum (Neato Connected) and a traditional vacuum, the robot always does a better job on hard floors especially cleaning small particles that can be harmful to our child. And as a bonus it leaves a really cool / fresh looking trails on the carpet after each session. It’s an expensive tool but we’ve had it for over 3 years and it works perfect.
There was a commercial about vacuums on tv today and my mom jokingly told me to buy her one for new years, next thing i know youtube has recommended me a video on robot vacuums..... interesting...
I love my Roomba vacuum. I have 2 goldens so the pet hair is a huge issue. The vac is a total gamechanger for me. I run it every day, sometimes twice. The bin is always full. I also have the mop. It works well too. I’m no longer a slave to constantly trying to keep my floors clean!
Hi mate last summer you helped me to make a decision about robot vacuum purchase. And it was damm good one thank you. My miss hasn't used traditional hover since. If anyone interested it was roboroc 5s.
I mean, regular vacs require at least some maintenance too, and they don't vac while youre out and about. Its probably less than 20 minutes of maintenance monthly, once you get the hang of it. Personally I've got about 40 mins of vac'ing, even without maintenance.
You don't need to empty it after every run, and I only clean mine every other month, would be much worse I am sure if you have cats or dogs though. Also have an apartment so no stairs, it is Ideal for some people, If I lived in a home with multiple stair cases which I would have to manually vacuum anyway, and had furry pets I would never buy one. For my situation, it has been flawless for almost 8 years.
Honestly, it's pretty easy to find the floor plan for any given house online nowadays. Besides, most robot vacuums don't have any form of communication built in to them, so that information can't be wirelessly sent
@@TehOldGamer if that was the case, you'd have to input a WiFi password. I mean they probably exist, but the majority of roombas have no means of communication to a "cloud". Also, cloud isn't necessarily the right term here. The cloud uses a foreign server to store data, but I find it unlikely they wouldn't own their own servers if that were the case
Easy calculation for me. How much time do I spend a week vacuuming? 20-30 Minutes, if I want my appartment to be cleaner, I need more. How much do you earn per hour? With 30 minutes/week thats 2 hours/month saved. Lets say you only earn 10 euro per hour, thats 20 per month saved. Thats what your time is worth AT LEAST (for me, I value my free time way more). If you earn more, it gets even more favorable. My roomba has been cleaning my appartment since 2013 now, so around 7 years, at least saving me 240euros in time per year. That would have been 1480 euros, of which I spent... 30 euros? On new brushes, dust filters etc. Electricity ... I have no idea, cant be too much though, at least not much more than a regular vacuum would have needed. The cost of a roomba is not even close to 1,5k. I got mine for about 350 if i remember correctly (sales at the time) and he's STILL kickin. Except for some corners which are blicked by furniture, my floor looks like you could eat off of it. Best investment in my life so far. Get one that gets the job done (if its shitty its not worth ANY money), think long term, and its an extremely good deal. All my friends have been sceptical, but every single one I convinced never wants to live without one anymore.
@@franciscobarril It charges itself, I empty it every 2-3 weeks (no kids or pets, so dont need to do it that frequently) and clean the brushes and filters every few weeks (takes like.. 10 minutes?) and thats it. Nothing I'd really call an effort.
Do these need repair service often, In our country none of the mentioned brand have service center but are available on amaxon, is it good idea to buy or not
I have a roomba and i love it. I only use it on hardwood floors and it cleans up dog hair like a champ. Its a bit noisy but I turn it on when im not home or place it in a room and close the door. I don't know how well it works on carpet but its awesome on hardwood floors.
We just got the Neato D4 for free from the air miles loyalty program in Canada. Its pretty good. Keeps getting stuck on my extra long curtains. I've been meaning to hem them but now i can just put in no go lines and continue procrastinating lol. I set it to run everyday and there's actually fine dust to be picked up within a few days.
I bought a Neato D5 after watching your videos, i say they are more than worth it in every way. A human is lazy by nature, we like to slouch around. Asking a person to use a cleaner for more than 30 minute at a time is a chore and most wouldn't do that each day.
Honestly I like acuuming manually but I almost never have enough time to do that. The only time I can really do that is when the children are in bed and unfortunately I wouldn't be able to clean their rooms then. And for this reason we recently bought a D5 too. We had a bit of a "bad start" with the D5 because I had some unfortunate problems (like getting stuck on different objects because the laser didn't saw them but the bumper sensor just went under them) but after working arround this issues and creating my virtual barriers in the app it works really good. You still need to prepare the house for cleaning by putting things away where the robot could get stuck or simply to have cleaned under themn but it's about 5 minutes of work and then you can let him do the job whenever you like. I think that's just what we wanted.
I've recently just lost my Shark Navigator to a motor failure. Since I dont have an upright vacuum no more I have to resort to my ION Robot, and I hate it!!! No smart navigation and it takes forever to clean one room! I need an upright vacuum but my mom said no :(
How about if YOU know something, then YOU should talk about it, instead of this sideways-approach where you want to sound accusatory about something that you can't explain? And seriously, you think those crappy sketches are going to be some kind of treasure map? Explain how a crude floor plan for an apartment is some kind of data worth exploiting. At least think that hard about it instead of posing dumb questions trying to sound smart.
Mine detects stairs so it will not fall down them. Unfortunately the detection is searching for a color change from light to dark or dark to light so on some of my patterned rugs it refuses to move at all..
Vacuum cleaners are available in third-world countries, and as Ingenium mentioned, Japan is very much a first-world country. You take your shoes off before coming into the house; that would sure make the floor a lot cleaner than otherwise. Also it's not the size of a house which dictates whether someone buys a vacuum or not, but the amount of carpet area that needs dirt cleaning. If you can pick up the rugs for cleaning, you can avoid the vacuum, but if you have carpet, it's disgusting unless you vacuum it.
You say first world problems and go on to say . . . "but here in Japan my house is so small..." you have a house? You don't need to buy a vacuum? Awesome. You said need not can't buy. Big difference between having problems and being arrogant as you are.
If your going to buy one of these you should know that a lot of the company's that make these make the vacuum get blueprints of your house so make sure to buy one off a trusted company
YES YES YES it is worth it. Bought Roborock S5 a month ago. House is clean at last! I just run it once a day and having a dog and 2 cats it is more than enough!. Even air is better. Also i know my house layout now, it has scanned the house. Very clever robot, can start it from anywhere using App.
I've been worried about that. Thanks for letting me know it can happen, because they sure make it sound like it's impossible. Sorry about your carpet and the damn roomba. I have an iRobot and it needs way too much babysitting and planning for me to call it 'convenient'.
I went thru about 5 of them including shop type and floor washer, ALL became more trouble than they were worth fairly quickly, biggest waste of money ever. But that was some yr.s ago, I assume they have improved.
Robot vacuums are good for big homes. My house is small and with a lot of furniture and the robot i got always bumps into it and just goes around back and forth the same area for 5 minutes before going anywhere else
You'd need one with mapping, then. I use a Roomba 650 (which uses semi-random navigation) on my main floor that has an open floorplan and it does fine. But I use a Roomba 980 (which uses cameras to map out the area) upstairs where all the bedrooms with furniture are. Way more expensive, but IMO, totally worth it if you can get one on sale. My 980 was under $500 on Prime Day.
Having a robot vacuum saved me so much time. Now I have plenty of time to watch my robot vacuum vacuum.
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Yeah its so fun watching them go around
I have a “dumb” random nav robot and it does a great job, but it is oddly satisfying and fun to watch it bounce around and if you have a bit of visible debris, it’s fun to try and predict when it’ll finally pick it up and when it does, it’s almost like watching a sport! I get lowkey excited when it picks stuff up!
Yes, I know I’m a boring person😂
@@sethfeldpausch4337 hahahaha.... you may be boring on your house, but not here on TH-cam...XD
@@sethfeldpausch4337 I have a bunch of these roombas from various gifts over the years. I like to watch them all go at the same time and pinball into each other 🥰
Let the daily robot war commence! 😈
You turn 30 and all of a sudden this is extremely entertaining lol
How about ten? th-cam.com/video/fPzSrB7JyB8/w-d-xo.html
You should try getting one, lol!
When I got my first one, I was fascinated, and watched it for hours! :D
They're still amazing though, and save you much back-breaking effort!
I'm 22 *sweats nervously*
hahahah 32 here I'm so excited watching cleaning solution for the house
LOL
We’ve gone from vacuum cleaning floors to cleaning vacuums.
Michael Joiner Well if you’re cleaning your vacuum cleaner, you are a vacuum cleaner.
Something people should be doing with their traditional vacuums anyway.
Now we need robot cleaners for the robot vacuum cleaners.
Michael Joiner times a million!
@@SimonWoodburyForget Me either, you basically either spending more time actually cleaning with a vacuum or just cleaning up the robot itself. With a quality "dumb" vacuum it just make sense to spend the 20 or so minutes a week or so to do the vacuuming than to spend the same amount of time and frequency if not more cleaning it, emptying it and so on. Also likely spending more money while your at it.
Later we're going to make cleaning robot to clean vacuum robot.
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And after that, we're also going to make cleaning robot that clean cleaning robot that clean vacuum robot.
4:26 Taking care of your pet roomba is important, folks. Feeding them and giving them exercise isn't enough. You have to make sure you clean them regularly, too.
thankfully they don't smell or poop!
Good news is, it takes 5 minutes to maintain a robovac, and in return, they save you HOURS of time and your floor is always clean!
"Vacuums with frickin laser beams attached to their heads."
😁😄😆😂🤣🤣
Some of them use UV sterilization to sanitize haha
Super vacuum
I always wondered why the charging dock doesn’t have its own vacuum to suck out the robot so it can be fully charged and empty and go back to work
The most extreme point of laziness.
@@sarahbasto6520 - I think you misspelled efficiency. : )
you just had a million dollar idea
They do, last I checked those ended up being double the price.
There are some that do this
I wasnt looking for a robot vacuum cleaner but now I want one
Best purchase of my life was my Deebot 930. I got hardwood floors with rugs and 1 carpet bedroom, high thresholds and it’s so powerful it nearly launches itself over them to get into bedrooms. I’ve noticed it also gets more clever over time and it figured out how to get up the threshold to my dinning room and navigates around the chairs better and better every time.
With hardwood floor you notice when there’s a tiny bit of dirt on the floor and I hate the feeling of it on my feet, I run my robot daily and my floors have never been cleaner.
I'm just going to wait until I can get a real Lost-In-Space robot and have him push around a regular vacuum.
The second alien robot will destroy your regular vacuum. Also watch out for the protomolecule..oh wait that’s the expanse. But still.
Idk man I'd be careful for potential robot uprisings
DANGER, WILL ROBINSON!
I want Rosie the maid from the Jetsons. She did all the housework, not just vacuuming.
@@Telcomvic A friend of mine did a local comic strip years ago called Anndroid based on her. Fit right into the 80's. Now we have Android in our pockets.
Well this is proof TH-cam is always listening too. My wife and I discussed buying one of these and here we are.
I'm just here at random.
Same.
TH-cam == Google
Its actually true.
You probably searched for product in your Google it automatically gave that information to TH-cam algorithm
Robot vacuums are really nice until the dog throws up all over the floor...You don't want to come home to it. Trust me. It drags it all over the place...
Christ I can't imagine 🤮
@BMore yeah, good point. My pup has yarfed on the floor in the night and I've missed it until after work before.
Wouldn't wish that mess to be roomba'd on the floors of my enemies, tbh
Yikes. Just another reason not to have a dog in the house.
Haha! Gross....
And this is the reason why I still haven't bought one. Can just picture cat vomit being tracked all over my hardwood floors.
I didn’t know robot vacuum timelapses look so satisfying...
I had the 1st gen Roomba for many years, and it was good to OK, technology being what it was back then. I now have one of the lower end Neato vac's (I upgraded the battery to the bigger one from the higher priced vac) and it is an amazing piece of technology.
We have 2 large dogs and a cat, and we run it every day. It fills up the bin every time, but because of that we rarely have to break out the big vac.
Are they worth it? To us - YES.
Just got a room a e5 LOVE IT . Made for pet hair. I've wanted one for years after a saw friend of mine Roomba. He turns it on before he goes to work and when he comes home the floors are clean :-)
I love mine, especially the fact that it goes under the beds and dressers. You have to run them daily and just be diligent about emptying the bin and cleaning the filters and rollers.
I run mine about every three days. It's fine.
In short - YES. The thing will do a round every day while you are not even home, instead of you bothering to clean once in a blue moon. It might not absolve you from cleaning completely, but it sure does reduce the tedium by a lot. Best few hundred bucks you ever spend.
I scheduled my robot vacuum cleaner to start cleaning every week day at 4pm, by the time I'm home from job I have pretty shiny and clean floor, not perfect off course, but definitely worth the price :)
Same, if you have cats or dogs it's a must because all that excess hair gets picked up and you have to actually clean your floors way less.
Very helpful comments. I’ve made up my mind to get one
@@Martel4 Yes works good for cat hair, i have two cats and I taped a stick with a string to a bell behind it to keep the cats busy chasing it xD and I also glued googly eyes on it to make it look funny while going around the flat cleaning.
@@Celentar What about servicing it as they said? I would feels like your still wasting the same 20 or so minutes every week/two cleaning it, replacing batteries (recharge ables will have to be replaced every now and then), emptying out it tray and/or etc. As you were with a high quality "dumb" vacuum.
@@rickytorres9089 Cleaning it 20 min a week doesn't even come close to the amount of time you spend cleaning up after cats and their hair without it.
If you really wanna keep the place clean, you lose a good 1 hour or more A DAY cleaning cat hair out of your place manually.
So spending a few minutes every weekend to brush cat hair out of the roomba's brushes and filters is overall a lot less work.
About a month ago I bought a Neato D7 after watching many of your reviews. I am very satisfied with it. It has brought me a lot of peace of mind and save me so much time. I plan to upload my video reviews next week. Thank you so much for your research! My next major purchase will be a carpet shampooer after I watch your videos.
How has it held up for you
All those household appliances, cars etc, don't save us time.
We're just tired when we're coming home from work to do anything different than dropping on the couch,
throw a TV dinner in the microwave, and turn on the telly.
They definitely work. If my robot vacuum cleaner broke today, I would buy another one the same day.
I have no interest in Robot Vacuums nor have I made any searches relating to them at all.
TH-cam decided this was the perfect video to recommend me
Definitely worth it. The S5 Max is one of the best purchases I have done. We run it daily and our 160m² house is done in about one hour. We used to vacuum 1-2 times a week before but the floors and carpets looks way cleaner now with the robot. The mopping function also works great. Sure it's not as effective as a dedicated steamer, but since you can have it done on a daily basis its not needed. And the little bastard is quite smart.
i7+ here and for us it is a game changer. We have porcelain floors throughout our home. The bedrooms look like wood and the rest of the home has textured surfaces. The i7 does an amazing job and get all the pet hair to boot, we have 2 dogs. It has made dusting almost a thing of the past. Dusting is a once a month job and you have to really look hard to find any. Its ability to empty itself makes usage a breeze. It also has the ability to mark on the map where you want it to keep out. It also works well with our smart home voice system. Just tell roomba to vacuum a certain room and off it goes. I can also control it where ever I am. If guest are coming over tonight, I can have the fridge make more ice and have roomba clean the guest bath, entry, reading room, and living room.
Very well done video. You did a great job of explaining the different features as well as the pros and cons. Thanks!
I bought one and strapped an claymore to it, for home defense.
That was a good meme.
Everybody gangsta till the claymore roomba turns the corner
And after you've totaled you home, how will you explain THAT to the insurance adjuster?
'merica
Got myself a Roborock S50 last year... best buy ever! So much more life quality just let it run every morning and the place stays clean ist soo nice.
Same here, with a S55 👍🏼
Do you know how noisy they get?
One of my hang ups is my pupper- she's crated during the day when I'd optimally run a robo-vac. I wouldn't want to stress her unduly.
I swear I need to buy this channel a beer if I ever meet them.
That's true youtube fame! 😂
I sell these as part of my job and this video is a great primer into the robot vacs. I kind of already had a preference for the Neato bots due to the navigation capability so it's nice to see that opinion reflected.
Ive been using it a little over a week🌼 and I'm amazed at how well this little guy works! I wanted something to just pick up dog hair between cleans but it does so much more. 100% worth it
Me having never searched for robot vacuums.
TH-cam "How about a video on robot vacuums in your recommended section?"
And thats why in future noone have carpets
Wall to wall carpeting has been long proven to be extremely unsanitary. Hardwood and rugs are the way to go.
Well your old boomer future does not impress me. In my future, we have no floors. We have force fields we walk upon.
@@monsterboomer8051 I don't know what your future will hold, but I can guarantee it won't be what you expect, and there will be plenty of things you don't like about it.
Jesi Oni still there would be mess
@@monsterboomer8051 i am on board with that ;)
thanks for making this quick and to the point!
Love mine - we have a dog and don't have to vacuum 2/3 of the house that's tile, nor the wall-to-wall bedrooms. We do use a manual vacuum (without rotating brush) on our area rugs since rotating brushes will destroy any area rug. We may do some extra manual vacuuming every six months. Love it - it's an iRobot s9+ with self-emptying home base.
This falls for the same fallacies I've encountered so often before with robot vacuum reviews. Robot vacuums do not need to clean a house on the first pass. The whole point is they require almost zero labour to operate so they can be used much more frequently than a manual vacuum with less human effort. So it may take a week of daily use to achieve the results of a day's intensive hand vacuuming, it does not matter. Give it a month and you will start to appreciate why folks like me would never go back to regular manual house vacuuming. In the first month you discover those places where they they can get hung up and you arrange things to avoid that particular fail happening again.Sure for special situations like a split flour bag catastrophe or cleaning the car manual is the way to go but for regular house cleaning you can't beat them. I've had my primitive iRobt for over a decade, it's poorly, made, it was expensive and I've had to replace a burnt out current sense resistor once (with a higher wattage one) but overall it has been great.
Before my robot vacuum, I vacuumed once every two weeks if I'm feeling diligent. Now, it gets vacuumed twice a week... It doesn't need to deep clean.
My problem is if the thing doesn't have enough battery life to get to the whole floor, and every time it starts up, it vacuums the same area instead of the area that it didn't vacuum last time.
You shouldn't be happy about wasting electricity.
@@GeorgeMonet What are you talking about ? My manual Vax vacuum cleaner takes 2kW, the Roomba takes 22V DC at 1.25A which is 27.5 Watts or 1.375% as much as a typical barrel vacuum (that is the charger rating). So I could run my Roomba 73 days consecutively for the same amount of electricity it takes to run my Vax once (I'm making the assumption here that I would use the Vax for the same time it takes to charge my Roomba, which I think, lacking more detailed data, is a reasonable assumption). I have 4.3kW of solar PV on the roof of my house, I drive an electric car which is plugged in at home when not in use and I still get a $3000 check from AGL for electricity I feed back to the grid in excess of the power I use from them, every year. I don't think I'm wasting electricity.
"Falls for the same fallacies"? No, he's a guy who really, really knows the subject inside-and-out on the capabilities of every MODERN brand available to him, and you're somebody with no name and no picture, trying to sound important by bashing a real expert and then rambling about how much you love your lousy old iRobot. You're angry at the guy for knowing newer stuff when you don't. You shouldn't make that so obvious.
@@jamescarter3196 Ad hominem attacks don't trump facts I'm afraid. My iRobot is old, it's on its third battery now but it functions fine, my Vax is a month old, that also works fine. They both have their place in my home.
My problem is more dog hair, and my robot vacuum works great for that, it saves me many time.
I've used one for a year now and I love it. You do have to clean them out each time though. I don't really mind because it only takes a couple minutes.
Great vid guys. Got a neato d3 pro for $300 bucks has been working great 6 months with two big dogs. We run it every day.
When they get something that can do corners, then we'll be good
The one he rec'd looked pretty cool, with those 90 degree angles. I get what you mean, though. I'd probably still do the corners and such manually couple times a month.
The Neato Botvac is badass. I've owned one for a few years now and I can honestly say it's the best purchase I've ever made. Buy it at Bed, Bath and Beyond so you can use the 20% off coupon
@@bluray2598 Agree. Got my roomba for 7 years now and my floor looks like I lick it clean every single day.
Btw.: My roomba is round, but has a... Dunno how to call it - helicopter like brush on one of its edges that swipes out corners. Works.
okay, I've been putting this off for a long time but I swear I see your comments almost every day. Do we have the exact same fucking recommendeds? xD
Our triangularly shaped Electrolux iPure9.2 has no issues getting into corners.
Love your channel (a vacuum channel that I love, who knew?) Just wondering if you might be able to add a "black carpet" test to your methodology? Loving... wait, liking my Deebot, but the black throw rug is killing its ability to clean in our dining room. I tried the white paper trick, but that didn't work for me. (might be how I put them on, since I couldn't find pics of anybody handling a 900 or 930 series in this manner, but have read a few reports that it is a way to do it, nothing as positive as the Roomba community fixes) But, even if I did get it to work, it shouldn't be that I have to disable a sensor myself to get it to work properly. I've even heard the Deebot spool up for carpet detect at the dark edge border, then back up onto the hardwood floor... I would think it could go "oh, I detected carpet, must just be black carpet!)
Keep up the testing!
I never even considered one of these before watching this but I’ve decided to get a higher end one for my kitchen. They look like a lot of fun too.
they are great in that they are very low profile and go under all the furniture (usually) and get to places you usually don't see - if you get a roomba they don't do wet things or floors well at all (there are other mop robots for that ... but they do a great job with dust and small particles..)
I got an eufy robovac 11s for $150, it was a special one day sale. It is absolutely worth it for a college apartment. Not only does it clean my carpet well, but it heavily incentivizes me to keep my floor uncluttered. I wouldn't recommend it for high end carpets or multi-story houses, but it is perfect for an apartment space.
And here I am with dat First generation Roomba. Still goin strong.
Still loving my 7 year old roomba as well. Best purchase of my life in terms of invest/outcome ratio.
If Apple made one, it would be their first product that doesn't suck.
Lmao this deserves way more likes
@@MandNsvideos665 I stole that myself :)
Thank you! It was very helpful!
bought one of these for our house, Eufy 11. Wife was sick and needed some helps so I figured it could help out. found I had to baby sit it when it was cleaning due to getting stuck all the time. worked great for grouted tile floors and hardwood but worthless on carpet. Bought a turbo hard canister upright. Found out that the robvacs were not cleaning at all on the carpet. Amazing at how much crap the new upright pulled out of the carpet. I moved the vacbot to the garage and on smooth concrete it does a great job, often cleaning places where I can't get to such as under vehicles. Really catches a lot of fine dust that I didn't have the patience to clean before. I now have 2 of these in the garage and they keep it neat as a pin. Except when, like the puking dog, I get an oil leak.
Please, review iLife A4S, A6 and A8; Eufy 12; Xiaowa Youth; iRobot 8xx.
che strano trovare l'originale ultra alem tra i commenti di un video di robot aspirapolvere
2:26 So now they are mapping out our homes too!
My parents got the Roborock and I had to help them set up the app.
It’s pretty useful and the app makes it so easy to navigate it. They have wooden floors and now they barely clean it themselves. The vacuum also has a mop adapter/feature, and it works pretty well for like 80% of stuff on the floor.
As for cleaning the robot. It’s pretty easy for the most part, I would prefer just cleaning that than the whole house and moving the couch to get underneath.
Oh yeah that’s also a great thing. This robot fits under the couch and picks up all the dust from there. I think for my parents it was worth it, mainly because their backs can’t afford to be cleaning.
Loved it. Very good video. Product catalogs totally avoid such details and tests. Thanks for all the videos
I just wanted to piggyback a little on this video. I just recently bought a neato robot vacuum (based on your recommendation) and I couldn't be happier. It is especially great because I have two large dogs and hair would pile up after a couple days. I cannot recommend a robot vacuum enough if you have pets. It has made our house feel so much cleaner. Thanks for the great videos!
What do you do about the areas the robot can't get to because of chairs, tables, or cords?
I am enjoying mine!
@@marycarricaburu3683 Same as I do for a manual; I move the furniture a bit when I want to clean under or closer.
@@marycarricaburu3683 My vacuum fits under most of my furniture (couches and coffee cables.) The hutch it gets stuck under I put the no-go lines around it in the app. Also I run mine on a schedule, I clean up briefly when it starts to clear the floor of cords and dog toys. It doesn't do too bad with cords, but I just make sure it's not going to run something over.
@@marycarricaburu3683 Cords you'll want to pick up or hid out of the way. Chairs and tables haven't been a problem for us yet. I have a 6 chair wooden table set and its no problem. If the vac can physically fit between the lets it will, if not it'll get as close as it can. Sometimes I wake up in the morning and find the chairs moved a bit lol.
My son bought the ilife last year and ran it twice a day for a year. It is still perfect. (Clean it after each use) He bought me one this Christmas. I love it. For a little over $100.00 it is a deal breaker. Even if it dies after a year I can afford another one.
that's not what deal breaker means. a deal breaker is a bad thing because it breaks the deal. being inexpensive is a good thing and makes the deal.
Jana Hahn You mean it's a no brainier.
I went Neato D7 at...$599. Yep. Currently running a ECOVAC Deebot N79S and I will rund both on different schedules.
always thoughtful n well done, thank you
Thank you kindly!
Neto, okay, I will come back to that once I have left my parents house^^
My Roomba got stuck in my dogs tail cause he is a fluff
I won't even watch the video, but I'll share my opinion. Yes! Robot vacuums are worth it. I've had a Roomba 980 for over 4 years. I run it downstairs every weeknight while I sleep, my floors are always clean, and it still runs like new. I was terrible at sweeping the floors, and this solved my problem.
I have had the neato botvac for 5 years and still running. It is a little tired and I'm thinking of getting a new battery. We plan to buy another and put the old one upstairs for lite duty. Great too. Doesn't slam baseboards like others.
it's weird to feel like I'm living in the future when this video is almost a year old
This is just the begining. So yeah.
Gengonglike Arbukle
Like helicopters? 🙄
Out of curiocity what about mixed setups? Hard floor with carpet at certain areas? Will the robot climb the carpet? And what is the tollerance?
Alex Sarafian my Neato has no probs in doing both
Thanks
We have a robot vacuum (Neato Connected) and a traditional vacuum, the robot always does a better job on hard floors especially cleaning small particles that can be harmful to our child.
And as a bonus it leaves a really cool / fresh looking trails on the carpet after each session.
It’s an expensive tool but we’ve had it for over 3 years and it works perfect.
There was a commercial about vacuums on tv today and my mom jokingly told me to buy her one for new years, next thing i know youtube has recommended me a video on robot vacuums..... interesting...
Yes. Our house gets hoovered every night now. which means a cleaner house more often. I'm just waiting for the day they can clean the stairs too.
ROOMBAS WID LEGS
I own Xiaomi and I couldn't be more happy about my purchase.
I love my Roomba vacuum. I have 2 goldens so the pet hair is a huge issue. The vac is a total gamechanger for me. I run it every day, sometimes twice. The bin is always full. I also have the mop. It works well too. I’m no longer a slave to constantly trying to keep my floors clean!
Hi mate last summer you helped me to make a decision about robot vacuum purchase. And it was damm good one thank you. My miss hasn't used traditional hover since. If anyone interested it was roboroc 5s.
So instead of the 10 minutes vacuuming, it's 10 minutes emptying and maintaining the robot?
I mean, regular vacs require at least some maintenance too, and they don't vac while youre out and about.
Its probably less than 20 minutes of maintenance monthly, once you get the hang of it.
Personally I've got about 40 mins of vac'ing, even without maintenance.
You don't need to empty it after every run, and I only clean mine every other month, would be much worse I am sure if you have cats or dogs though. Also have an apartment so no stairs, it is Ideal for some people, If I lived in a home with multiple stair cases which I would have to manually vacuum anyway, and had furry pets I would never buy one. For my situation, it has been flawless for almost 8 years.
You know nothing about anything
I turn mine on and spend the time doing other stuff. It's like having a kid that actually helps vacuum when you ask.
justfrcomments bs
"Laser-mapping homes" that... sounds kinda like a security issue... Even more so with the camera-based ones
You can stream it online and makes Monay. Clever.
All robo-vacs are NSA drones. You'll see....
Honestly, it's pretty easy to find the floor plan for any given house online nowadays. Besides, most robot vacuums don't have any form of communication built in to them, so that information can't be wirelessly sent
@@PinkSparklyGamer Most Roombas connect to WiFi and upload the map of your home to their cloud.
@@TehOldGamer if that was the case, you'd have to input a WiFi password. I mean they probably exist, but the majority of roombas have no means of communication to a "cloud". Also, cloud isn't necessarily the right term here. The cloud uses a foreign server to store data, but I find it unlikely they wouldn't own their own servers if that were the case
Thanks For The Information!
I love vacuuming and I never thought I'd find a channel about the best quality and best value vacuums 😳
"You can finally robot proof your house no matter how cluttered it is."
We have arrived.
I am good at cluttering and one of the reasons we bought a robot cleaner was to force us to keep stuff off the floors.
Well, one floor anyway. They can't exactly go upstairs
can't talk about if they're worth it if you never tell the price my man
Around the same as a regular vacuum, way too much.
Math is hard.
Easy calculation for me.
How much time do I spend a week vacuuming? 20-30 Minutes, if I want my appartment to be cleaner, I need more.
How much do you earn per hour? With 30 minutes/week thats 2 hours/month saved. Lets say you only earn 10 euro per hour, thats 20 per month saved. Thats what your time is worth AT LEAST (for me, I value my free time way more). If you earn more, it gets even more favorable.
My roomba has been cleaning my appartment since 2013 now, so around 7 years, at least saving me 240euros in time per year. That would have been 1480 euros, of which I spent... 30 euros? On new brushes, dust filters etc. Electricity ... I have no idea, cant be too much though, at least not much more than a regular vacuum would have needed.
The cost of a roomba is not even close to 1,5k. I got mine for about 350 if i remember correctly (sales at the time) and he's STILL kickin. Except for some corners which are blicked by furniture, my floor looks like you could eat off of it. Best investment in my life so far.
Get one that gets the job done (if its shitty its not worth ANY money), think long term, and its an extremely good deal. All my friends have been sceptical, but every single one I convinced never wants to live without one anymore.
@@Merumya but how much time do you spend cleaning and maintaining it?
@@franciscobarril It charges itself, I empty it every 2-3 weeks (no kids or pets, so dont need to do it that frequently) and clean the brushes and filters every few weeks (takes like.. 10 minutes?) and thats it. Nothing I'd really call an effort.
Do these need repair service often, In our country none of the mentioned brand have service center but are available on amaxon, is it good idea to buy or not
I have a roomba and i love it. I only use it on hardwood floors and it cleans up dog hair like a champ. Its a bit noisy but I turn it on when im not home or place it in a room and close the door. I don't know how well it works on carpet but its awesome on hardwood floors.
The act of cleaning your home is beneficial in many ways.. #1physical activity..#2 mental fitness#3 knowing where all your shit is put away or not...
Option 1- Getting a “smart vacuum” and having to care for it
Option 2- getting a broom for 5€ and use it every other day for one minute at the time
(in future) Option 2- getting a used Roomba for 5€ and use it every other day for one minute at the time
Thats cool!! We originally got a deebot but returned it for the neato. Im very happy with it!
We just got the Neato D4 for free from the air miles loyalty program in Canada. Its pretty good. Keeps getting stuck on my extra long curtains. I've been meaning to hem them but now i can just put in no go lines and continue procrastinating lol. I set it to run everyday and there's actually fine dust to be picked up within a few days.
I bought a Neato D5 after watching your videos, i say they are more than worth it in every way.
A human is lazy by nature, we like to slouch around. Asking a person to use a cleaner for more than 30 minute at a time is a chore and most wouldn't do that each day.
Honestly I like acuuming manually but I almost never have enough time to do that. The only time I can really do that is when the children are in bed and unfortunately I wouldn't be able to clean their rooms then. And for this reason we recently bought a D5 too. We had a bit of a "bad start" with the D5 because I had some unfortunate problems (like getting stuck on different objects because the laser didn't saw them but the bumper sensor just went under them) but after working arround this issues and creating my virtual barriers in the app it works really good. You still need to prepare the house for cleaning by putting things away where the robot could get stuck or simply to have cleaned under themn but it's about 5 minutes of work and then you can let him do the job whenever you like. I think that's just what we wanted.
Bcat BB Any problems with your Neato D5?
I've recently just lost my Shark Navigator to a motor failure. Since I dont have an upright vacuum no more I have to resort to my ION Robot, and I hate it!!! No smart navigation and it takes forever to clean one room! I need an upright vacuum but my mom said no :(
Lol! On SALE NOW, 😀 crazy pills! For any mom who wont LET u clean! Lol!😉
2:32 robot was like, "move b*tch, you're in my way" 🤣
How about sticking a stick in the middle of the test carpet/floor to simulate a table leg?
Next step: a robot vacuum that cleans itself.
They have one now! :)
Can you talk about how the mapped data in your house is collected, transmitted and sold?
How about if YOU know something, then YOU should talk about it, instead of this sideways-approach where you want to sound accusatory about something that you can't explain? And seriously, you think those crappy sketches are going to be some kind of treasure map? Explain how a crude floor plan for an apartment is some kind of data worth exploiting. At least think that hard about it instead of posing dumb questions trying to sound smart.
Considering the fact mine has NO internet access, jackass... that is impossible !
Mine detects stairs so it will not fall down them. Unfortunately the detection is searching for a color change from light to dark or dark to light so on some of my patterned rugs it refuses to move at all..
I have been using Neatos since they came out. The only downside I have with them is the battery replacement is a pain in the but.
First world problems 🙄
Here in japan the house is so small that we don’t even need to buy a vacuum
I mean Japan is kinda like the definition of First World ^^
We are talking about the most developed country of the World.
Vacuum cleaners are available in third-world countries, and as Ingenium mentioned, Japan is very much a first-world country. You take your shoes off before coming into the house; that would sure make the floor a lot cleaner than otherwise. Also it's not the size of a house which dictates whether someone buys a vacuum or not, but the amount of carpet area that needs dirt cleaning. If you can pick up the rugs for cleaning, you can avoid the vacuum, but if you have carpet, it's disgusting unless you vacuum it.
You say first world problems and go on to say . . . "but here in Japan my house is so small..." you have a house? You don't need to buy a vacuum? Awesome. You said need not can't buy. Big difference between having problems and being arrogant as you are.
that was my point, even if I'm in London.
Y'all got no humour.
Are there any robot vacuums that can detect a cat vomit and avoid it?
Not that I know of.
Honestly? no. None of them can.
seriously ?... & I suppose you would not pay more than $50 for one as well...
Ha ha ha what a great video. I enjoy watching video that are not advertisements but are instead honest insights into great products ha ha ha.
We use Eufy and we are very much satisfied with it. We just don't leave unattended cables lying around. It does a great job.
I wonder how the Neato would fare against my long-haired German Shepherd hair...
My rough collie is asking the same. He makes my dyson pet vac cry.
My xiaomi does ok with my husky (so far)
Vacuum Wars: "Are Robot Vacuums Worth it?"..............NO
But: "Vacuums" in Scrabble is.
That's the word seasoned pros dream of getting the letters to
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Awesome vid!
If your going to buy one of these you should know that a lot of the company's that make these make the vacuum get blueprints of your house so make sure to buy one off a trusted company
YES YES YES it is worth it.
Bought Roborock S5 a month ago. House is clean at last! I just run it once a day and having a dog and 2 cats it is more than enough!. Even air is better. Also i know my house layout now, it has scanned the house. Very clever robot, can start it from anywhere using App.
My roomba got stuck the other day, melted the tires and my carpet all to shit 🤬
I've been worried about that. Thanks for letting me know it can happen, because they sure make it sound like it's impossible. Sorry about your carpet and the damn roomba. I have an iRobot and it needs way too much babysitting and planning for me to call it 'convenient'.
at least yours didn't drive over a pile of fresh dogshit.
@@jamesswartz1779 , that's too funny :D
Shit hit the fan woops robot.
I went thru about 5 of them including shop type and floor washer, ALL became more trouble than they were worth fairly quickly, biggest waste of money ever. But that was some yr.s ago, I assume they have improved.
I haven’t watched this video but I can tell you i adore the one I have!!
very concise thanks
Robot vacuums are good for big homes. My house is small and with a lot of furniture and the robot i got always bumps into it and just goes around back and forth the same area for 5 minutes before going anywhere else
You'd need one with mapping, then. I use a Roomba 650 (which uses semi-random navigation) on my main floor that has an open floorplan and it does fine. But I use a Roomba 980 (which uses cameras to map out the area) upstairs where all the bedrooms with furniture are. Way more expensive, but IMO, totally worth it if you can get one on sale. My 980 was under $500 on Prime Day.
So you can waste your time with an upright cleaner or waste your time cleaning your robot it all seems pointless to me but thanks for the video
You are wrongly biased, never having owned a good one...
I have a neato. And the amount of stuff it picks up is crazy, goes under the sofa and everything!
So, when I buy a robot vacuum, do I still need to keep my normal vacuum cleaner? And vacuum with it?