Customer Ratings & Reviews

I recently purchased the new Roomba Plus 505 Combo Robot Vacuum & Mop with the AutoWash Dock, and honestly, I'm loving it! After getting the Roomba 105 with the auto-empty dock for our upstairs a few weeks ago, I knew I wanted something even more powerful for downstairs. We live in the city, have a dog, and often have family over who don't always remember to take their shoes off - so keeping things clean can be challenging. One of the biggest highlights for me is the combination of the LiDAR sensor and the Clearvision AI cameras. This is currently the only model that has both features, and together they make navigation and obstacle avoidance fantastic. The vacuum maps our home accurately and typically moves around effortlessly. Sure, sometimes the pathfinding can get a bit quirky, but overall it's impressive. It’s really nice to see Roomba stepping up their game, catching up to competitors, and rebranding as a more modern and user-friendly company. My only real frustration was during the initial firmware update, which seemed to take forever. The app kept saying the update was "almost complete" with less than a minute left, but I ended up having to force-close and reopen it. After doing that, the vacuum was immediately ready to go, and thankfully, it’s been smooth sailing ever since. The mopping feature was surprisingly good - the back-and-forth scrubbing motion cleans much better than I expected. That said, the dock's water bins do feel a bit cheap for the original price point ($999), though I managed to get it on sale for $599, which helped ease that disappointment. I was also initially skeptical about the single brush roll design, but Roomba definitely stepped up the suction power compared to previous models, and other brands. It picks up dirt and debris without needing multiple passes, performing just as well as other vacuums I've used in this price range. Overall, I'm really happy with this purchase and can't wait to see what new products Roomba brings out next!

Best Robot Cleaner I’ve Ever Owned – Set It and Forget It Perfection I’ve owned several robot vacuums over the years, and the iRobot Roomba 505 Combo Vac & Mop is on a completely different level. This thing doesn’t just clean—it handles business. The vacuuming is powerful and consistent, and the spinning mop pads actually scrub instead of just dragging a damp cloth around. Floors come out visibly cleaner, especially in high-traffic areas and around the kitchen. The AutoWash Dock is a game changer: it self-empties, washes the mop pads, and even heat-dries them, so there’s zero smell and zero maintenance on my end. Navigation is impressively smart thanks to LiDAR. It maps the house accurately, avoids obstacles, and doesn’t get “lost” like older models. I can run it at night or when I’m out, and I come home to floors that look freshly cleaned—no babysitting required. What really sold me is how hands-off the whole system is. No constant emptying, no dirty mop pads, no daily fuss. It feels like having a silent cleaning assistant that just works. Bottom line: If you want top-tier performance, real mopping (not gimmicks), and true automation, this Roomba is worth every penny. Once you use it, you’ll wonder how you lived without it. Highly recommended.

A huge step in the right direction for Roomba, this had a new App that brought a lot of new room and mapping changes which were needed, obstical detection and a refreshed user interface. I would have liked an onboard twater tank for the mop pads but, it definitely kept my hardwood floors clean with 2 German Sheppards and chocolate lab Still. If it were $100 cheaper it would be a solid buy but I have more value on customer service and parts arability so it was good for me.

The iRobot Roomba 505 Combo Vacuum & Mop is great. Once the layout of the house was completed by defined specific areas it’s great in keeping high use areas clean and tidy. It’s low clearance allows it to vacuum and clean areas one normally would have to move furniture etc to clean under and around to remove “Dust Bunnies” I highly recommend it to help save time in keeping a clean house. With the layout of our house we keep it’s based in the Laundry Room out of the way in a secure area,

Absolutely love this product! Would recommend to everyone. Must have, love the fact that it adjusts itself to carpet or floor.

First Impressions At a glance, the Roomba Plus 505 Combo Robot appears to be high-class, premium, and well-designed, but once you touch and see it up close, you'll find it was a grand cost-cutting illusion. Yet all plastic, it is all well-made, and I don't worry about the build. The luxurious, textured patterns with a copper-accented logo, juxtaposed against smooth, glossy, and matte finishes, make for a truly pleasing and modern aesthetic that blends seamlessly with any home. The tanks are easy to remove and refill, thanks to sealed clipping lids. Setup is easy and self-directed, but a manual would have been beneficial. What You Get You will find an impressive floor cleaning machine that is intelligent, efficient, and seamlessly integrates into any smart home. A machine that handles floor mopping, sweeping, and vacuuming chores to lighten your load around the house. All carpets remain dry and clean, while all hard floors are washed and vacuumed daily for a fresh feel. Now, clean your floors once a week or every other week, just as you would typically, and this is considered maintenance in between. The box includes the robot, the AutoWash dock, an extra bag for the auto-empty feature, an extra set of mop pads, and the power cord. Everything comes in a neatly packaged box with no space or room for things to wiggle around. Setup Experience 4/5 After you've unpacked and placed everything, head to the App Store and download the Roomba app. You can fill the water tank, connect the magnetic floor mops, and prepare the vacuum for charging. Once it is plugged in and aligned with the charger, you will hear instructions to guide you. Find a space for the base and the robot near an outlet. Create a Roomba account, add your robot, name your robot, update the firmware, and then let it map the area. Very intuitive and straightforward to use. During setup, the app became stuck during the firmware update, and I had to close and reopen it to return to a functional state. Once I reopened the app, everything was easy to figure out and set up. App and Smart Features 4/5 The app is the newest upgrade, improving Roomba's overall experience. They have now addressed part of my issue with them, their OLD app. Roomba can still be seen as lagging in terms of technology and implementation here. Still, they are finally showing up with a respectable app and performance results on multi-surface areas. The app enables control and automation with virtual barriers and no-go zones, keeping things within your limits and helping you stay in control. Link it to your smart home and let this thing shine with voice commands for messes. It breaks rooms into zones and furniture as best it can. Helpful, but can be tedious due to the need for multiple taps to remove them and the inability to change them. Schedule cleaning daily by zones, rooms, or furniture. At night, a small headlight illuminates the front of the vacuum. The AI camera allows it to identify things on the floor that Lidar may miss. It is a bit loud at night on higher suction settings, so you WILL hear when it is mopping as it spins. How Well Does It Map? 4/5 AI Mapping was done quickly compared to other vacuums. It didn't bump into things like a drunk bumblebee bouncing from flower to flower; it was just a quick drive to each corner of the room, and the floor was mapped. It runs very smoothly, and the app is very detailed. It has settings and a path history on the floor. Obstacles are auto-flagged and learned using AI, and you can view them on the map in the cleaning history. Your cleaning history is logged, complete with travel path, start/end times, along with the floor plan and various lines marking the path taken while mopping and vacuuming. Once labeled, it remembers rather than reviews. Remove the obstacle after it is recognized, and watch it still avoid it. If this issue is resolved, it would significantly enhance the robot's efficiency, improve AI capabilities, and conserve battery. The rooms are auto-segmented, and the app attempts to place furniture and equipment to make the floor plan easier to refer to when cleaning. You can clean furniture and equipment like a refrigerator. In my kitchen, it automatically placed a sofa and an entertainment center after a few cleanings based on the appliances recognized on the counter. This includes two rectangular glass panels on the counter, a convection oven, and an air fryer next to it. The sofa, though, is befuddling, which is why I'm curious to see how this thing is trained and what influence, if any, we/the app have on the algorithm. Navigation Issues That Bug Me 3/5 Once it passes and maps an obstacle or object, it assumes it is permanently there. Looking at the cleaning history, I can see that it took some unnecessary paths, as though it was curious. Logically, not smart, but hey, it's AI learning my home. It appeared to be scared and ran from the living room. It would be working in the living room, but all of a sudden go to the kitchen, then return to the living room after it saw what it was looking for? Quite peculiar; I'm curious what it's doing or what it sees in AI, causing it to return to an already completed part of the floor. How It Actually Cleans 4/5 The vacuum has strong suction - they claim it's 70 times more powerful than their 600 series robots, and I can definitely tell the difference. It handles everything from crumbs to pawprints without issue. The mopping works well for daily maintenance, though don't expect it to replace your deep cleaning routine. The mop pads extend coverage by 18% compared to regular ones, and the mop extends from the robot body to touch the wall for edge-to-edge cleaning. SmartScrub mode provides extra attention to tougher spots. This feature is ACTUALLY good and cleans floors extremely well by applying pressure on hardwoods and floors. The AutoWash dock is where this thing shines. It auto-empties for up to 75 days and handles mop pad washing for up to 4 weeks. The dock continuously refreshes the pads and even has heated drying. Way less maintenance than other robots I've used, and for this, I can highly recommend it. I have to empty the dirty water tank every three days because we double-mop the floor after it is vacuumed. Smart Floor Detection 4/5 This is capable of handling all floors and rugs, as well as any combination thereof. With the array of sensors, it knows when it's on a floor and when it's on a carpet. I have a long runner in the kitchen that goes in front of the cabinet by the sink, and it stops mopping when it gets over that part of the floor once it's off the carpet. It then knows it can spin the mops again safely and will continue mopping the floor. When it encounters a corner or something similar, it never gets stuck; it just pushes its way back down flat. I recommend vacuuming first and then mopping to ensure the mops are dry on the carpet, but that is anecdotal, and there were no actual issues. Things to Know (Personal Experience) -Hair is an issue on the roller still, so you will need to take time and clear it out. Other vacuums have added things to remove and cut the hair, but this one does not. -It was very loud during the mapping, sounding like a piece of paper was stuck somewhere. I suspect it's the rubber roller. After a few uses, it became quieter, but it's a fact that when the mops are engaged, the noise level is louder than just vacuuming. -One night, it got stuck and said the cliff sensors needed to be cleaned. It was dead, and I had to charge it. Once it was charged and I restarted it, it worked fine again. The robot sensors were clean, so I'm unsure what happened there, but I must report it nonetheless. -The app needs more "furniture" options. Currently, it mislabels items because the library is too small. Hopefully, more will be added so we can further fine-tune the cleaning ability with voice and app automations. - The dock is pretty big, so make sure you have space! Things that Need Improvement -Should have a manual included in the box. QR is ok, but many users will prefer the manual. -Wetness control or sensors so the robot knows when it's time to spray more, rather than going off sq ft.. cleaned. -Use LIDAR and AI camera to rescan areas for obstacles throughout cleaning. -Sometimes it has curious navigation behavior - returns to already cleaned areas for unclear reasons, does nothing, then returns to cleaning. Bottom Line 4/5 OVERALL This is a solid robot vacuum and mop combo with decent performance that'll handle your daily floor maintenance with minimal fuss, thanks to that AutoWash dock. The suction power is definitely there, and the mop coverage is better than most. There are navigation issues, and the high price holds it back from being great. The navigation quirks can be annoying, hair collects on the roller if you have long-haired residents, and it's louder when mopping. If there are more than 1-2 people with long hair or animals, this will require frequent maintenance at the roller to prevent tangles. I am not sure why they didn't add a mechanism like others. Here's the thing, though - the price is quite steep! I wouldn't recommend this at full price, but it might be worth considering on sale for under $700. At full retail, there are better options available for the money, although this is a good machine. Perfect for busy households with mixed flooring who want to set it and forget it, but wait for a sale. Skip this if you have a lot of pet hair, require quiet operation, or frequently move furniture around during cleaning.

This vacuum talks that’s a plus over my last one cleans pretty good

Bentley has proven himself to be the best robot, only labor I have to do is add water and dump the old..my research has paid off!! The customer service at Best Buy was excellent as well!

We love our roomba! Coming from the 600 series this was a major upgrade! The mapping is a game changer! We couldnt be more pleased! We have a dog who sheds A LOT and this keeps the maintenance down from sweeping daily.

I love this robot. I have others but it’s my favorite because my house looks more cleaner and without damaging my wooden floor. My house has different floor textures. I’m very happy with it.

Definitely a MUST have! We upgraded our previous Roomba Vacuum to the all in one Roomba 505 Plus! This unit does it all! Strong Vacuum, dual rotating mop heads, self cleans and dries the mop heads and refills itself when it needs more cleaning fluid and continues to clean. My downstairs is all tile and my floors shine every day. Starts on it own at 10am and does its thing.

The best choice for me, easy to use and useful machine

It does a good job at sweeping and mopping. The only downfall super loud.

The iRobot Roomba Plus 505 Combo Robot Vacuum and Mop plus AutoWash Dock is a fantastic home cleaning appliance. This dual purpose device helps to clean up the loose dirt and debris in our home with its automated vacuum cleaner ability, and then can also wet mop the floors to ensure a thorough cleaning around our hard floor surfaces. The AutoWash dock offers a fresh water and dirty residue water bay to help for easy liquid management. This iRobot Roomba Plus 505 will require the usage of the Roomba Home app, as my previous iRobot app wouldn't work to set this new vacuum up. This robot vacuum gives the thorough cleaning I have come to expect from iRobot Roomba products with a strong suction vacuum and a deep scrubbing mopping. This Roomba Plus 505 has a dualclean mop pad system that operates as independent mopping circles and can also extend outward to help get more edges in my home surface. This is an added technique that I haven't seen before and it helps to get more surface area cleaned in my home allowing for a more hygienic area. This also offers SmartScrub which gives you twice the deeper scrubbing ability to clean up tough messes like mud or stains on my hard floor surfaces. This ClearView Pro Lidar works very well in both daylight and lowlight night settings, as it continues to clean and analyze its surrounding area. There is also a new PrecisionVision AI Technology that assesses and analyzes objects and knows when to navigate around the object so your random items left on the floor won't disrupt the cleaning operation of the robot. There is an autowash dock that will allow for 75 days of auto emptying into the housing dock. The mopping pads can be refreshed with a new stretched and fitted mop. There is also a built-in heated pad for drying the pads after a cleaning cycle which is great to prevent moisture/mold and also keeps the mopping pads ready for a future cleaning. Connecting this Roomba Plus 505 is easy, as it can be paired with your smart home hub such as Google, Alexa, or Siri. The more you use this robot vacuum the more information it gathers to continually build a precise layout of your home map so that it knows what to avoid and which areas tend to get more dirty. It's continually adapting to the rooms and becomes more comfortable in the map and rooms as time goes on. Once again iRobot has created a robot vacuum that performs exceptionally well. It looks modern and offers a nice textured finish and colorway. I feel like this dock and robot can look upscale and not be an eyesore, due to its bold and modern design. The new Roomba Home app works well, but I wish the previous app was used so that I don't need 2 different variations of this app for different models of iRobot vacuums. Great vacuum and mop functionality, all within a sleek robot unit that provides a thorough clean.

The robot cleans perfectly, but if the mops are working. The mops constantly stop working, so I need to reset factory settings. I bought it several weeks ago and have already done it twice. And mops still are not turning on.

After using the iRobot Roomba Combo Plus 505 for about a while now, I feel ready to give my honest, experience-based opinion Unboxing this thing felt a bit like setting up a piece of smart home tech from the future. The vacuum itself has a sleek matte-black finish, and the AutoWash dock is substantial. You’ll need a good amount of floor space for it think small side table size but it doesn’t look out of place in a modern home. Setup was very easy The app guided me step by step process like connecting to Wi-Fi, mapping the house and setting up the first cleaning routine. It did take a while for it to finish the first full map of my home, but once that was done, everything worked smoothly. This Roomba means business. I live with a pet who seems to shed like it’s his job, and this vacuum picks up everything—fur, dust, even random crumbs under the couch. I’ve used older Roombas in the past, and the suction on the Combo 505 is on a completely different level. iRobot says it’s 70x more powerful than their old series i believe it after using this. The edge cleaning is impressive too. It gets surprisingly close to walls and under furniture, which is a huge plus in my pet hair covered life. I’ve used combo robot vac/mops before, and honestly, most of them feel like they just drag a damp cloth around. This one is different. The Dual Scrub mopping system has two rotating pads that actually scrub the floor. You can see it doing real work, especially on dried-up kitchen stains or muddy paw prints.It also knows when it’s on a rug, and lifts the mop pads automatically. This actually works I tested it multiple times, and it never left wet streaks on my area rugs. Let’s talk about the dock. It’s the reason I wanted this model in the first place, and it’s a game changer. It empties the vacuum bin, washes the mop pads, refills the water tank, and even dries the pads with heat so they don’t smell. If you’re like me and hate maintaining your robot vac every other day, this dock makes it almost completely hands off. I basically just top off the clean water once a week and empty the dirty water maybe once every 10 days. That’s it, the dock is loud when it’s doing its cleaning and drying cycles. I schedule it for the middle of the day when I’m out of the house, so it’s not a big deal. But you wouldn’t want it running late at night.The LiDAR navigation is fast and precise. It moves methodically in straight lines, doesn’t miss spots, and rarely bumps into things. The object recognition is actually useful I’ve watched it navigate around socks, cords, and even dog toys without drama.You can label rooms, create no-go zones, and set custom cleaning routines from the app. Want it to vacuum the living room daily but mop the kitchen twice a week u can do it all, Easy Integration with Alexa and Google Assistant is seamless, and I even tested it with Siri Shortcuts it worked great. What I Love • Truly automatic: I barely touch it now. • Excellent mopping: Actually scrubs, not just wipes. • Pet-friendly: Handles fur like a champ. • Smart mapping & object avoidance: I trust it not to get stuck. • Quiet when cleaning: The robot itself is pretty quiet on normal mode. A Few Drawbacks • The dock is big: Be prepared to dedicate some space. • Dock noise: Emptying and drying cycles are pretty loud. • Initial mapping took time: It needed a couple of passes to fully “learn” my home. • Price: It’s a significant investment but in my opinion, worth it for what it offers. If you’re looking for a robot that can truly replace regular vacuuming and mopping, the Roomba Combo Plus 505 is probably the best you can buy right now. It's not just a cleaner it’s more like a cleaning assistant you can actually count on. It doesn’t need babysitting, and it stays clean itself, which is a miracle in the world of robot mops.It’s expensive, yes but if you value your time, have pets, or just want a low-maintenance clean home, I’d say it’s absolutely

What a great addition to the home! Honestly, this product just rocks. In a house full of lazy people who never want to sweep or mop, the Roomba comes through! It even goes over small ledges!

THIS… IS the Roomba Plus 505 Combo Robot, iRobot's next high end combo robot that promises to not only be able to vacuum, but also mop most of your daily mistakes with ease. This is something that I have been dreaming of getting, and, with three large dogs… something I NEED. From muddy paws, to my Great Pyrenees rouge furballs, to my wife's cooking mishaps… I can safely say this Roomba 505 is entering the home cleaning gauntlet. Let's take a look and see if iRobot has put together a friend in the fight, or a $1000 headache. Taking the 505 out of the box, it was immediately evident that I had encountered a new realm of home cleaning. The 505 robot not only looks sleek, but the base station really wraps this product together to make it look like the new generation for home cleaning robots. Something Roomba has done really well in the design of the base station is the accessibility to the clean and gray water tanks while still retaining its cohesive look. It really is as easy as picking the respective clean and gray water tanks, popping the lid, and refilling them. Both tanks hold about a gallon of fluid each and will last me for over a week of uninterrupted scheduled cleaning as well as several impromptu cleaning runs. Something that I wanted to note, you can actually add your own cleaning fluid to the clean water (which iRobot also sells) to help the 505 clean your floors. I found that adding it helped the 505 clean my floors ‘tougher’ spots easier regardless of which brand of cleaning solution I used (iRobot did not include any of their own solution in the box) as long as it doesn’t suds up easily. Moving onto the app, Roomba has a whole new one from their prior generations and WOW! From mapping to creating rooms to no go zones, iRobot didn’t just think of everything… they made it so easy! A cool feature that Roomba threw in the 505 was the ability to place furniture on the map, and then give the 505 the ability to spot clean around it, nice! The app does have a slight learning curve, but once you get the layout, it is very intuitive. It is one of those apps where it is very obvious from the start that the people designing the Roomba are also USING the Roomba as well. Now onto the reason we are all here!! The 505 not only tackled my house's mess, but is the first home cleaning robot that I have genuinely been able to confidently place and forget about! The 505 is cleaning my floors 4 times a week on a schedule as well as several other times throughout the week and it just WORKS! I was very nervous when I was receiving the 505 that it wouldn’t be able to clean the muddy paw prints, the troves of dirt my dogs bring in or avoid getting tangled on my great Pyrenees hair blobs. Not only has the Roomba 505 blown through my home's disasters, I have not had to intervene a SINGLE time EVER with the 505 outside of swapping the water tanks. The 505 has also been navigating my house and its plethora of obstacles just as well as it has been able to clean it, it has had zero interventions - period. Zero snags or tangles, no issues going over bumps and zero issues transitioning from my hard floors to sweeping my rugs. The darn robot even has a light on the front of it so you don’t step on it in the dark! Roomba has made the user experience so smooth that my wife has downloaded the app to use it on her own - wow! I have been in the home robot game for almost seven years now, starting with Roombas' very own M6 mop and S9+ vacuum. To say that iRobot has come a LONG way is an understatement. I was shocked to see how well iRobot has put both mopping, vacuuming and hands free automation into such a seamless package. If you are genuinely looking for a competent plug and play all in one robot, then look no further than the Roomba Plus 505 combo robot! If it can keep my house clean, then I am confident that it will be able to take on yours. Roomba has made coming home a so much easier, and I feel much better coming home from a long 12 hour shift at the hospital knowing my floors are taken care of! As with all robots, BestBuy has an awesome return policy, so there is no harm in testing just how well the Roomba 505 combo can take on your house's messes as it has taken on mine! Until next time :)

I’m absolutely annoyed with this product. We have had it going every single day. Or let me say try to have it going every single day, but it never even gets very far. It seems to not systematically go up and down in one room. It goes wherever it wants to, but it just finally after six days made it to the living room out of the kitchen. It constantly goes back to re-clean itself, but does not come out on its own or it stops in the middle of a room and we have no clue why because we’re not in that room to be able to hear what the problem isfor a $700 machine. It doesn’t seem to work as good as I thought it would if you have anything stuck to the floor it does not come up. The vacuum seems to work OK, but I’m not sure the scrubbing is even doing anything. So far the only place that I can find the solution for the Roomba is on Amazon and I’m still waiting for that to show up a week later so maybe that would help actually clean the floors but I also don’t understand why we have to keep calibrating re-mapping and why it doesn’t set itself going on its own. We have to constantly pick it up and put it back onto its dock and put it in the exact right way for it to actually charge. We had it on the charger overnight the very first night and the next day it still said it needed to be charged. I don’t know if we just got a bad unit, but I’ll try to take it and exchange it and write another review but so far for the price of this machine, I am in no way probably going to keep it.

The Roomba iRobot 505 Plus is the Roomba I’ve always wanted. It vacs. It mops. It empties its bin and even cleans its own mop pads. And most, most, most most importantly……it does not get itself into a sticky, compromising situation that requires human assistance. I’ve owned a few robot vacuums thus far, and each one has its own pros and cons. But one common theme for all of them has been the occasional mishap, requiring my intervention. They’ve even gotten smart enough to tell me in plain English what the cause of the issue is. So when I heard about this newer model that does everything my older vacs do and then some…..I was outright skeptical. I am no longer skeptical after running the 505 through its paces. The main difference in the 505 is its use of LiDAR, a far superior method of object detection and navigation. This Roomba is smarter because of that, and the result is a high performing robot cleaning machine. Hardware is only half the equation; the software that runs it has to also be just as good. And I was surprised and delighted to see that there is a new Roomba app for the newer models. It's both simplified and effective in practice. The app shows where your 505 is in real-time. No more guessing where it’s been or “did it clean that spot over there” type of thoughts. From the start of its cleaning session, a constant line is drawn on your floor plan, highlighting where your 505 has been, including mop cleanings and charge breaks. There is no question to be asked in regards to where it has been. Along its path, it will mark hazards as hazard cones, and it doesn’t bore you with the details of each hazard. It pretty much tells you, “I saw something here, but go check it yourself. Sorry to convenience you.” Other models may take pictures, which seemed cool at first, but the wow factor wears off quickly. This is the perfect balance of information to come from a Roomba app. Of course, the app also allows for some customizations, such as targeted rooms to clean, designated clean zones for higher traffic areas, and scheduled cleaning. This is all possible with the app’s map customization tool. This allows you to create sections within your floor plan and assign them names so you can tell the 505 why rooms you want cleaned. There’s even a setting to change the cleaning levels for both vacuum and mop. Needless to say, the app is a sure requirement to utilize the 505 to its fullest. So how does it perform and how well does it do it? Having 80% of my home as hard floors, mopping is a must for me. The 505 gives me the default option to vac and mop simultaneously. Vacuum is methodical, with straight line sweeps to maximize battery; mopping also follows a straight line, but incorporates a V-shaped motion with the main line as a pivot. When cleaning the edges of a floor, a pad will extend out and reach those edges. It kind of reminds me of a dog doing the fire hydrant maneuver, if you know what I mean. The mop pads appear to be always moist and stay that way until it goes back to dock for a pad cleaning. It is here where the pads are washed from water in the clean water tank and drained into the dirty water tank. I remember my very first run on my main floor. It did its initial run to map out my home, and it did it in less than 10 minutes. That’s a testament to the effectiveness of LiDAR. Then I let it rip through the night. The next morning, there was a definite feeling of cleanness on my feet. When I saw the dirty tank, I was floored. It was dark and murky water, and I felt so ashamed. With each run thereafter, I noticed the dirty water becoming less and less murky. A daily nighttime run has kept the floors clean. After two weeks, the only thing I had to do was empty the dirty tank and refill the clean tank with water. That is a tiny price to pay for clean floors. And not once, NOT ONCE, did this Roomba ask for help. Some notable things to mention is its self-emptying bag, which will need to be replaced every couple of months, depending on your flooring conditions (hard floor vs carpet). The main vacuum rubber brush and side brush as well as the mop pads will also need replacing at some point. The main rubber brush does catch a lot of hair, so you’ll have to manually remove them. iRobot includes a cutter tool to remove tangled hair on the brush. Also, the water tank is just that: water. A quick check of the website shows that you can add a small mixture of BravaJet solution to the clean water tank, but so far water alone has been effective. One last thing. She is pricey. Very pricey. And with that in mind, the main thought is to see what else is on the market, outside of iRobot’s walls. The market is indeed flooded with robot vacuums and honestly it has been very hard to tell them apart. What’s worse is that these robots undercut iRobot’s MSRP. As a fellow consumer, I cannot comment on the other offerings and can only vouch for the effectiveness of the 505. It has been nothing but wonderful here at home and from a pure product effectiveness’ perspective, I highly recommend it.