iRobot Roomba 980

Advantages: Navigation (compared to previous models), although the logic of the move is still strange.

Disadvantages: 1. Scrabble.
2. Removes not all dust.

Comment: Dilute too enthusiastic reviews about this model (it seems that most of them were written by the sellers). Bought this model for cleaning 120-130 square meters. m square. Other models did not fit because of the size and configuration of the apartment, although we previously tested them to assess the quality of cleaning. By the time the vacuum cleaner removes 1.5-2 hours, while the navigation works strangely: it cleans the premises sequentially, but some - half, and then returns to them and completes the cleaning. As a result, the algorithm is obtained: removed by half - moved to the next, again by half - to the next, and so on, then from 4-5 rooms again returned to the first - doubed, then again to 2 or 3, or 4, or 5 according to your own understanding. But as a result, it will still be removed everywhere. About the bad: firstly, the vacuum cleaner is badly scratched. After several cleanings, the front bumper (in places where there is no rubber) is covered in scratches and chips, scratches in the back, and even on the washer above there are several chips. Sources of scratches and chips: radiator brackets, radiators themselves, metal furniture legs. It is a pity that the contact part of the vacuum cleaner is not rubberized around the perimeter. Secondly, the vacuum cleaner does not collect all the dust. In the bay room with the window ajar on the tile, street dust settled down (almost imperceptibly, but if you hold it with your hand or a napkin, you will see). He let the vacuum cleaner, he removed the 10 square meters. m for 10-15 minutes and stopped. Dust mostly remained in place !!! Perhaps the vacuum cleaner did not recognize the dirt on the light tile and did not pass several times, but the fact remains. After that I began to pay attention, and I discovered some traces of dust on the dark laminate after cleaning (it is simply not visible on the light dust). If such a situation is on a solid surface, then what will remain there in carpets (even with an increase in power)? Therefore, I rate this model as the most common - at 3, won’t expect cleaning from it as compared to a regular vacuum cleaner: it will collect small debris and partly dust.

Advantages: independent, possibility of remote control, enhanced mode

Disadvantages: not found

Comment: For a long time I chose which vacuum cleaner to buy, but the choice was on this model. It is very convenient to manage with the help of the application on the phone, now to my arrival from work at home it is nice and clean) It cleans carefully, it does not tinker, it drives under the sofa, carefully circles the furniture legs, side brushes it collects dust from baseboards. Occasionally, of course, you can walk with a cloth in the corners, but not as often as before. Distinguishes where the wall, and where the soft fabric (enters under the curtains and under the bedspread). The most exciting thing for me was how he would cope with the carpet. Two fluffy cats live in the house.So, the carpet was cleaned very well, before it was necessary only to clean it with your hands, because a simple vacuum cleaner did not cope well, and this little robot turned on the increased power and cleaned everything. Then she specially scattered rice on the floor, turned on the enhanced cleaning mode again and collected everything to the last grain. I am very glad that I chose him, now he is my irreplaceable assistant.

Advantages: Powerful, stylish and functional

Disadvantages: Have not found yet

Comment: It has long been eyeing modern vacuum cleaning robots. I bought Ai robot rumba 980. I chose a long time, studied different models, the reviews helped a lot. Perhaps my experience will help someone.
Basically compared two models - Rumba and LV. But I gave preference to Rumba, of course.
Oriented in the room perfectly due to the built-in camera, all stuffed with sensors, complete with two Virtual walls. I have not used them yet. Charge enough for cleaning 2 rooms completely, this is a big plus; It works well according to the built plan, does not miss dirty places. I liked that it quickly adapts to the type of surface - laminate there or carpet, on the carpet immediately increases power. I liked very much the build quality, good plastic, everything was done reliably and soundly. Buttons are highlighted, nothing superfluous. I am very pleased with the purchase, I hope I will not be disappointed in the future!

Advantages: Powerfully sucks, no debris and no dust, ideally cleaned

Disadvantages: not

Comment: The whole apartment runs twice, in time it takes a little more than an hour and a half. The area is not very big, but the battery just enough for another 30 minutes, a very vigorous gadget!
Carpets sucks in perfectly, I do not observe any hair and hair, there is no dust either. Clean perfect. The functions are very convenient, almost always I run Rumru remotely from work) The room map is built perfectly, not buggy. After the first launch, I immediately noticed that the suction power is large and the volume is low. On the carpet switches to full and sucks everything in its path))
Compact, easy to use, always along the walls and corners clean. And in general I think that the old bulky vacuum cleaners will soon be irrelevant.

Advantages: Various and useful functions, effective cleaning, high-quality assembly

Disadvantages: Didn't notice

Comment: At the first test launch, I was immediately surprised by the algorithm for constructing a map and filtering moving objects. The robot drove off into the distance, came back and vacuumed a part of the floor from which I moved the chair. After completing the cleaning, I found my base without any problems. I almost always configure and control via a smartphone, it is very convenient and more functions are available in the application. The result of cleaning is always gorgeous! Clean perfect everywhere. There is no dust, dust or wool anywhere. Rumba can recognize highly polluted places, passes through them several times. It also recognizes carpets, and retracts them with more power. Workmanship is very high. The case is not scratched, there are no dark stripes on the furniture and baseboards. The battery is powerful, for 1 complete cleaning of the apartment is quite enough! I believe that for such a number of functions, excellent workmanship and cleaning, the cost is quite adequate.

Advantages: Superski cleaned in the room. carpet recognition is generally an irreplaceable thing and of course remote control

Disadvantages: It is a little scratched when cleaning when it meets obstacles, but this is nonsense, it was bought not to look like a new one, but to clean the room

Comment: I rent an office of 100 sq.m. and on the advice of a friend, I still decided to purchase this unit.I had no particular idea, because for the first time I decided to try to use a robot vacuum cleaner. Very glad I bought. The main advantages: management from the phone, with my work schedule I can not always be in the office, a very convenient thing. Perfectly licks the floor and removes large debris. any legs of chairs and tables bypasses ideally. The battery charges very quickly and lasts for a long period of time. And the recognition of the carpet is a very convenient thing, as soon as the Rumba rug begins to fully absorb everything that it encounters on its way))

Advantages: - An excellent algorithm for constructing a map and filtering moving objects (the vacuum cleaner, having already traveled a decent distance, can return and vacuum the part of the floor from which the obstacle was removed)
- Perfect location of the base (if you yourself moved out of it)
- Setup and control via smartphone (very convenient)
- Excellent cleaning of smooth surfaces (dust, debris, wool)
- Good cleaning of carpets (dust, small debris)
- Recognition of highly polluted places (after passing through such a place, the vacuum cleaner stops and makes a movement back and forth until it is satisfied with the result)
- Recognition of carpets (really improves the quality of cleaning)
- Sensor filled trash can (works perfectly)
- A cool double pass algorithm (the second time, the vacuum cleaner passes through the room perpendicular to the first pass, which significantly improves the quality of carpet cleaning from wool)
- Simplicity of service (easy cleaning of rollers from hair, all places for maintenance are highlighted in yellow and icons)
- Clean (I would say ozonized) exhaust
- Localization (perfectly translated documentation and absolutely all options, and hints in the program for a smartphone, connecting to a smartphone, if everything is smooth, is a pleasure, who connected he will understand)
- Excellent equipment
- Virtual walls (2 in a set) made by a new technology that allows to extend the life of batteries up to 10 months (not tested - but I hope) represent opportunities that are inaccessible with magnetic stops
- Lithium-ion battery
- Upgrade software over the Internet
- Excellent warranty service (verified)
- Workmanship
- Adequate cost (official costs less than the manufacturer’s website and compare with competitors) + there are discounts.

Disadvantages: - When buying a novelty, you need to be prepared, that this novelty fails (in the comments) and only therefore I give a rating of 4.
- Removes 80-90 percent of wool from carpeting (although a ginger cat, which is heavily tattered with claws, and therefore with clinging) is if the vacuum cleaner recognized the carpet and turned on at full capacity. The result can be improved by double pass.

Comment: Bought April 7, 2016. Attempting to connect to a smartphone running iOs (iPhone 5s) failed - seeing the vacuum cleaner on the phone, however, could not complete the initialization to the end and did not register the vacuum cleaner in the phone. All vacuum cleaner settings were unavailable. Under Android (phone HTC M9 Plus), not immediately, I managed to connect it - all the settings and information became available. But when trying to control the vacuum cleaner outside the home network (from work), the smartphone produced a message about the unavailability of the cloud and offered to connect the vacuum cleaner to a new network.

On April 8, I took it to a warranty workshop where, after testing, it was recognized that the WiFi module failed at the vacuum cleaner and the decision was made to replace the vacuum cleaner. With me, they took a new vacuum cleaner from the shelf in technical packaging, removed the old battery from my old one (the new ones in the warranty departments are shipped without a battery), turned on and set up on my iPhone. An hour later, leaving my old vacuum cleaner with my garbage (it worked perfectly from the button and I already drove it around the apartment) I was driving home with a new vacuum cleaner. For such an excellent service, I am ready to put 10 with a plus on a five-point scale.

At home, after looking at work on a new vacuum cleaner, I realized that the replaced one also had a problem (only it was not obvious) - the recognition of carpet coverings was not adjusted. The old vacuum cleaner included full power somewhere on 30% of the carpet - for the remaining 70% it was rolling with reduced power.

For a month now, a new vacuum cleaner perfectly copes with its duties by filling its container with a mixture of sand and dust for 2 days. He spends 30-36 minutes on my 22-24 free meters in single pass mode, and then easily returns to the base and falls asleep.

Recommendations:
1. Buy vacuum cleaner robots only with an official guarantee and not only iRobot (my friend has already used it twice to repair iClebo Arte).
2. The smartphone should connect easily.
3. On carpets should work at increased power over the entire surface.

P.S.
Healthy iRobot to you

Advantages: 1) Camera - really builds the room!
2) iOS - really works remotely, you can run Zhuzhu if guests come and you are at work.
3) The suction power - above all praise, laminate is clean all the time at low power, as soon as the input mat is turned on and goes through it until everything sucks.
4) There is a function of double passage in the corners and along the walls.
Generally works with a bang !!! The old Philips vacuum cleaner of the 90s weighing 15kg was taken to the dacha))) Pensioners should live in the country in nature)))

Disadvantages: Scrabble!
Slides down the steps (if the height is less than 5 centimeters) and then hangs out in the bath and yells that the "Error Move Roomba to a new place) cannot go out!)))"!

Comment: There is no carpet, but it also sucks a lot from them. Grandmother checked everything in her carpets for 1 hour and filled in a container and began to swear! Now, on weekends, we are carrying our grandmother without a docking station, because at full power, an apartment of 50 sq. M. the floors take place twice and spends 2 hours and charging a lot more remains one more hour exactly will work!

Advantages: Clean tidy, build quality, equipment. Fully localized (instructions, program and messages translated)

Disadvantages: In my opinion, the price is too high and the program for controlling a vacuum cleaner with Android devices is damp.

Comment: This is my first vacuum cleaner of this class. So I have nothing to compare with. Buying, in general, satisfied. He got what he wanted: clean floors for coming home.

The disadvantages include quite raw software (I hope that they will cure it in the next versions) - it is impossible to restart the vacuum cleaner remotely (using the program). You look at the software - it writes "Error", you come home, it stands in the middle of the room. Click the button "Clean" says "Error, for example, 15", once again press "Clean" and the robot starts to vacuum. Strange, but the same operation cannot be performed by pressing the "Clean" button in the program.

It is not possible to find out the battery charge level. It was a couple of times such that you run it, but after a while it “Battery Low” and gets up.

He does not see obstacles that are higher than the floor, but lower than it (for example, furniture with high legs) - the cracks it does not penetrate to any height. In such places is quite a strong blow. If it is a wall, or furniture standing directly on the floor, then it slows down and slightly touches them with a bumper.

On carpets with a large (thick) pile is stuck: it slides from the carpet to the floor, but cannot return to it. It seems that the height sensor perceives such carpets as an obstacle.

Advantages: Really well removes dust and small light garbage.
Automatically recognizes the carpet underneath and turns on high power mode.
Can be controlled from a smartphone. Brand free smartphone application, which even has video settings and maintenance.

Disadvantages: I would like a bumper (the place where the robot touches the obstacle) of softer rubber.

Comment: I chose a robot vacuum cleaner solely on the reviews and discussions on ixbt. Because the place of use is a house of 200 square meters, then on the advice of users, the robot must have navigation - to build a map of the premises (otherwise it will get lost). With fast charging capacious Li-ion battery.
As a result, Rumba 980 came under all of these requirements. We have no particular hopes. Well, that obvious garbage did not roll-and come down.
So, the 980th was far beyond our expectations. Specially noticed every little rubbish in the corners, behind the sofa, in any secluded zakutkah-Rumba regularly swallowed it.
The robot perfectly cleans around the table legs, chairs and near the walls. Bumping into legs, very carefully "licks" the floor around them in a circle. The designers are great!
Howls pretty well, at night you will not leave to work. It is clear that the noise is a direct result of a powerful engine. Although he also has eco-mode - with less noise (less power), but we have not tried. We turn on the robot in the afternoon, while nobody is at home.

The only thing I would like to bumper from a softer rubber. No, as long as he has not repulsed anything, neither himself nor furniture. Moreover, Rumba does not hit at full speed in an obstacle, but brakes in front of him. But for reinsurance I stick, probably, in front of a strip of window sealer.

The robot has built-in wifi - it can be controlled from a smartphone via the Internet. From the application, you can configure the robot to turn on the timer for a week, you can remotely start it at any convenient time from any place, as long as the Internet is at hand. There is a video on operation, maintenance, where, what, how to change. The instruction and application for the smartphone are Russified without bugs.
In general, we are very pleased with the Rumba-980. Definitely one of our best acquisitions.
However, it should be clearly understood that this device - only for background cleaning - reduce the amount of dust, remove small debris. The robot will not replace a large vacuum cleaner and will not cancel general cleaning, although it makes it easier.