iRobot Roomba 560/565 Vacuum

Operates twice as efficiently as bissel, bumps into things to learn but not like a maniac like bissel. Gets fairly close to edges but not perfect. My biggest complaint is it tends to blow surrounding dog hair away so some is bound to get missed and increases airborn pet dander. I do wish it started in a contour mode and then into its default mode. Run it twice a day for lab and floor is clean

This is the second robot vacuum I purchased, the first one was a Neato XV-21. I have put down some random thoughts about its usage. I knew before purchasing this, that it did not work for cleaning more than 1 room at a time. But it was purchased for a basement rec room of 1 room and about 600sqft. Does it clean this room? Probably not, but if you run it several times a week, it should cover the entire floor at least once. The Roomba will run until its battery gets low, and then return to its base. If it did not finish cleaning it will not recharge itself and then go back out and pick up where it left off. It simply recharges and waits for the next cleaning cycle. I have not observed the Roomba to ever continue on after it stops to recharge. Its movements are entirely random, although IRobot would like you to believe its movements are based on some complicated algorithm. The Roomba appears to clean a room until it thinks the room is clean. This is based on some kind of room size algorithm that it determines from bumping around. The room may or may not be cleaned when it thinks it is done. The Roomba may cover some areas multiple times and others once or never. The Roomba is not really a vacuum, it is more of a floor sweeper. Its suction power is pretty pathetic. The Roomba bangs into things a lot. I have put felt bumpers all around its edges to try to stop the marks it leaves on the baseboards and furniture legs. Emptying the dirt bin is not convenient, you need to pick the Roomba up to prevent the dirt from spilling onto the floor. If the Roomba was able to clean more than 1 room and continued cleaning after recharging, I would rate it higher. You could purchase a dozen lighthouses to force the Roomba to spend at least 25 minutes per room, but if the room is large that may not be enough, and when the battery needs recharging that is the end of the cleaning. But for my use, cleaning a single enclosed room, the Roomba does work. Eventually after several cleaning runs, it does appear to hit every spot.

Love it ! The little Roomba works and let me have extra time to do my stuff, the vacuum is not as powerful as the recent models, but in a house with no furry pets will work perfectly, keeps my rooms and hallway clean and I don't have to worry about it. Excellent product ! I will recommend everybody.

Great time saver and it does an excellent cleaning job. I have two long hair persian cats and a french bulldog at home and I never know that my house can get this much dirty within just one day... Thanks for this hard working little pet robot that keeps the hair and the dirt away : )

My family and I were all skeptics when we first heard of the Roombas. Especially my mother who is a bit of a clean freak (sorry mom) and she vaccums the house every few day. Well my house is about 2000 sq. ft with hardwood floors, carpets and tiles and it averages about an hour to vacuum the entire house. We got the Roomba 2 days ago when it was sale at CT. We decided to give it a try. Before we start the Roomba we took note of where most of the dust/hair/bits-and-piece-of-stuff are, so we can judge the Roomba's performance. We started upstarts with 3 bedrooms and two bathrooms with floorings as mentioned above. That is roughtly 900 sq. ft. It is fun to see the Roomba just drive itself around floor. It took abou 30 mins to clean the floor, which is about 3 times the normal duration when cleaning by hand. However, considering i left the house for about 20 mins to do my own thing when the house is being clean, this is awesome. The performance is good. Don't expect the Roomba to give you 100% cleaned floor. Judging from the results, i'll give it a 85-95% clean; which is still pretty good. It had no problem transitioning between different floorings. The first floor is mainly hardwood flooring and tiles and is about 1,1000 sq ft in size. This time i started the Roomba then i went away for about 3 hours. When came back, it parked itself to the charger docking station and, upon inspection, the cleaning was impressive. I put it about 95% clean. I read that some owners couldn't get the Roomba to park itself. I believe the key lays in the line of sight between the robot and the docking station. When i press the "dock" button, it will first do a 360 turn to try to detect the homing beacon. If it can't detect the beacon, the robot will randomly walk around the room until it senses the beacon. Then it will park itself. To my surprise, my mother has high praises for this litter bugger given she has wrist pains and vacumming by hand doesn't do her good. Overall we love our purchase and the Roobma is cleaning my kitchen as I am typing. Highly recommanded