iRobot® Roomba® i7+ (i755640) connected Robot Vacuum - Automatic Dirt Disposal - Dual Multi Surface Rubber Brushes - Learns, Maps, and Adapts - Clean by Object - Personalized Suggestions

The short version:We decided to invest in a robot hoover after we found ourselves sweeping or vacuuming dog hair every single day. And what an absolutely amazing purchase. Highly recommended!The longer version.We have two dogs. One malts, the other one not so much, but even then they both walk things into the house.We also have kids who like to get as much of their breakfast/lunch/whatever on the floor as possible. So it's a constant battle against pets and kids to keep the floors clean and we are both working.This wasn't an easy decision because this bit of kit comes with a pretty hefty price-tag so it was a decision that took a month or so. In the end we decided to take the plunge because the dog hair tumbleweed situation was just not getting any better.The robot hoover itself is incredibly effective. We no longer have a dog hair problem!! And we now even encourage the kids to sweep crumbs onto the floor after breakfast ready for BB8 (yep, that's the name of our Roomba) to do the scheduled clean.Mapping out the rooms is really very easy. I say this, I downloaded the app (iOS) and it's all very self-explanatory. BB8 went around the floor in every single room and presented me with a floor plan (a digital one, in the app). I created the boundaries for each room and assigned them a label: kitchen, hall, lounge etc.Because BB8 has wi-fi integration it's really very easy to add to Google Home, which we have done. We can now ask BB8 to hoover the kitchen or another room or indeed the whole of the ground floor via our Google assistant. This is incredibly cool.BB8 does a daily run around the house every morning and a sweep through the kitchen in the evening.I've had to clean the brushes a couple of times and I've emptied the hoover bag about 3 times. The suction is VERY effective and the Roomba unit is actually pretty intelligent, weaving in and out of the dining room chairs, feeling it's way along skirting boards and then taking itself back to the base unit to charge up and empty the onboard vacuum chamber.Would I buy another one? In a heartbeat. In fact, we're considering moving this one upstairs and buying one that has a mop!!I never thought I'd be one of those folks who owned a robot vacuum, it just seems so privileged and, quite frankly, for people who had more money than sense but we are totally converted.I will say that it might be a totally different experience if we didn't buy one with a base station (where the stuff gets transferred from the unit to the bigger hoover bag). We would be forever pulling dog hair out of the thing, multiple times a day I daresay, so our experience is based upon the Roomba with the big base station. Which is awesome.10/10. Actually, 9/10 because it can't climb the stairs.

I'm a bit late to the robo-vac party, but have toyed with the idea for some time - when I saw the self emptying model (I7+) on Black Friday, I finally pulled the trigger on buying one.I followed some tips online before setting up by running 2 mapping runs (with a clear floor, to aid it in mapping the areas properly) without the vacuum actually running, this was good advice and made the mapping process relatively painless (and much faster), the map it created was very good and it was a simple process to divide it up into individual rooms.The i7 is a few years old now and lacks the newer features such as LIDAR, but for me that's a fairly incremental benefit in the real world, the i7 knows Its way around (and has a camera to aid it in identifying whereabouts it is on the map, not for object avoidance) and it performs brilliantly, cleaning each room methodically and thoroughly.The ability to clean a particular room on its own is a very handy feature for post meal-prep-cleanup (OK G... Clean the kitchen), or post-meal-consumption (OK G... Clean kids zone) (zones being areas you can add to any place on the map, so you can have zones in front of the sofa (or wherever), so rather than needing to clean an entire room, you can localise it right down to where the [regular] mess occurs.Its object avoidance follows a very clever algorithm and seems to navigate around random objects (and dogs) very effectively, cleaning as much as possible.Overall it's made a marked improvement on the cleanliness of the carpets - my wife is a bit of a clean-freak and she is also impressed with the results (it's reduced the vacuuming routine down from daily to almost nothing), it really keeps on top of the dog hair and leaves the rooms feeling nice and clean.Scores a high WAF (Wife Approval Factor), so we're both very happy with the purchase.In terms of maintenance, I clean the filter (tap it out) and rollers once a week (to remove hair etc), this only takes a few minutes and keeps it running well.Highly recommended.

We have a husky/malamute and a GSD, so this has it's work cut out. Whilst it won't get to places that henry does, it's good at doing the vacuming every day to keep on top of the hair build up. Our dogs sleep outside but spend a lot of time in doors and our hall, lounge, kitchen and bathroom are all wooden or tiled, only the bedrooms are carpeted and our roomba (named FurBeGone), covers the majority of the house as we have a very large hall. One neat thing is telling google to vac the hall or bathroom or house and it says 'sending FurBeGone to the hall'.FurBeGone has a great feature in the app that you can zone out areas, so it discovers a room and you can tell it to not go under chairs or certain areas etc... it does come with a keep out beam device which I use in my study but FurBeGone is quite smart and has yet to get locked in the bathroom like our last robo vac.The station, whilst an additional cost, was a must. We have yet to empty the bag and that's after a couple of weeks! So pleased with that. FurBeGone is fairly quiet, but the station is like a rocket in comparison, but only does that when FurBeGone returns to charge or empty.A major reason to by this vac was the very easy to remove rollers, if hair gets caught, it pulls off super easy and I do that every now and then, our last one (retired to the garage), had brushes and always got caught up and a bugger to get the hair out.So FurBeGone has been good to us so far.