bObsweep - PetHair SLAM Wi-Fi Connected Robot Vacuum Cleaner - Jet

Bob is a pretty cool product. He maps out the home initially and does a great job and ensuring the entire floor gets cleaned by zig zagging through the house. He gets stuck from time to time, so you’ll need to removed specific rugs, cords, or things from the floor before starting him up. But the unit is great at stopping it before any damage occurred. Overall, the SLAM technology is pretty awesome. I added a picture of my daughters drawing of Bob, because in our home he's an addition to the family. He finds his way back to the charging dock and everything can be managed from the app, including a schedule, or even a quick clean in a specific area like the kitchen or kitty litter. Very happy with the purchase because he is much more efficient than a broom, or even vacuum and does the heavy lifting for me, since I have so much hardwood. One thing to lookout for: cost of replacement parts are pretty expensive. It does come with two extra brushes and an extra filter, but beyond that, they're priced at retail to make good profits on the replacement parts.

Vacuum works well and is easy to maintain. It deftly navigates my somewhat crowded floor plan with ease. Mop attachment does what it needs to do, but I have some complaints with the app in regards to this. There is no way to manually trigger the vacuum to only clean a particular set of rooms, you can only do this via a schedule to clean multiple rooms, or by individually selecting each room and having the vacuum clean each room one by one. As of the writing of this review, they also seem to have omitted the ability to set a scheduled cleaning in the mop setting. What this means, in practice, is if I want to have it mop my hard floor rooms I have to sit with the app open and select each room for a targeted cleaning. Pretty annoying. The other complaint I have is with the construction. There is a small rubber piece attached to the roller of the main brush assembly that is quite easy to lose while cleaning the brush. After cleaning out the brush over the trash can, i took the trash out and threw it in the dumpster before realizing i had lost this piece. I contacted bobsweep support, fully expecting to have to pay a nominal fee for replacement of this part, but to my surprise they sent me a whole new brush assembly (which i didn’t even need) and several extra replacements for the rubber piece, free of charge. Quality customer service like that is hard to come by and I think any flaws with the product are perfectly tolerable in light of this.

I cannot compare my experience with "Bob" with other robotic vacuums for he is my first. I always resisted purchasing a robotic vacuum because I thought that I would have too many obstacles that would prevent a thorough vacuuming of my small apartment; however, Bob vacuums and places that I rarely got to and now are vacuumed daily i.e. under our sofa, under our china cabinet, and under the dining room chairs and a couple other end tables. I hate to admit it, but vacuuming was usually something only done when I knew a visitor was coming and it certainly did not include the spaces previously mentioned. I ask Bob to vacuume daily (sometimes more than once!) and he does so without complaint, including under the couch, etc. I was warned about a few things from friends who owned robotic vacuums, but they not proven to be so with Bob. He runs at night quietly and does not require lighting. He has only gotten himself stuck a couple of times (on cords and at the base of my sofa before replacing my legs with slightly taller ones). He was following my automated schedule until my cat decided to drop a pile of feces on the floor in anger over me moving his litter box and Bob managed to get pretty messy and smear the poop, so no more schedules for me! I now do a quick look around and then ask Google to vacuum and Bob does his thing! I do wish I had the ability to tell Google to vacuum one room or the other, but I can do this using the app which is fairly easy to navigate and learn. My Bob is a dark red ("Jasper") and looks as nice as a vacuum can look within my decor. It does not have automatic emptying of the bin, but it's so easy that this is not a big deal to me. Thanks Bob!