iRobot® Roomba Vac Essential Robot (Q0120)

Uso diariamente já tenho o roomba 900 que e excelente também uso os 2

Very happy with this little vacuum. We have a dog and this product helps to keep the dog hair in check. Not perfect. But does a good job

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.

First time buying a robot vacuum! Heard good things about this brand so we went ahead and bought this item back in December 2024. Settings it up is relatively easy. But the actual machine is terrible. It keeps hitting all furniture pieces and gets stuck. The cleaning is terrible as well. Doesn’t do a good job on hardwood or tile floors. The mapping function is also terrible. Overall, I could’ve blown the $200 on something else instead of this piece of crap! I strongly suggest not buying this model.

UPDATE 2/22/25: This thing is a piece of junk. Yesterday it got "stuck" on a flat surface, under a dining room chair, all four legs of which are spaced widely enough for it to pass freely. Then, without returning to its base, the Roomba declared that it had successfully completed another cleaning mission. The contents of the dusbtin? Next to nothing. Earlier in the week it got stuck again, this time under a short bookcase I use for a nightstand. It had plenty of vertical clearance, and the bookcase's legs were far enough apart so that the Roomba couldn't squeeze itself into getting stuck, and yet it reported that it was trapped , though all it had to do was back up or spin and go forward. My return window has closed (yes, I should have boxed it up as soon as I had my suspicions that it sucked), so I'll reach out to Roomba to see if they want to make it right. I bought this Roomba to replace another Roomba that was dying after four years of reasonably good service. My late Roomba's final act was to find some fresh dog poop (not common in my house, I swear - my pups are usually really good about heading outside, but when you gotta go, you gotta go) and get it all over its wheels and into its other parts. Time for the trash. Which is where I feel like putting this one. At first I appreciated how this one is quieter than the former and had a thoughtful feature like the onboard brush attached to the waste container. But from the start this Roomba has had trouble making its way back to its home base, which is exactly where the previous one's was. When its battery gets low, rather than trying to make its way home, it will just die wherever it is, leading to a spirited game of Find The Roomba! This model is also better than my last one at wedging itself under furniture. I'd told a friend (who'd also bought a new Roomba (a different model) around the same time how this one wouldn't wedge itself under the bookcases in my office like the old one. And then started doing that. And lodging itself under the entertainment unit in the family room (which is where today's round of Find The Roomba! led me. It also - and maybe this could be seen as a good thing somehow? - likes to push furniture around. I thought I might be being gaslighted after I found that the relatively substantial side table beside the couch in the living room had been moved to about a 45-degree angle. I figured I'd somehow done it, moved it back and thought that was that. The next day I found the table at that angle again and only then connected it to the Roomba. Which also explained why I was finding my dining chairs feet - sometimes several - away from where they belong (see the video). The old Roomba never did this. Maybe this Roomba will clean up its act and will grow on me. If it does, I'll update the review and raise it a star or two.