iRobot - Roomba 880 Self-Charging Robot Vacuum - Black

Overall love the unit. Actually after buying one for our downstairs all hardwood and purchased another for our upstairs all hardwood. I have them scheduled to run every other day. Downstairs runs in the middle of night, upstairs run in the middle of the day. We have two long hair small dogs and they do their job picking up. The units do require us to make sure we don't have anything that may get tangled off the floor. One big problem I did have is the legs on our true wood furniture was getting a small nick from the unit circling around it. I corrected by purchasing a felt strip and ran it around the unit. The unit does need to come current and drop the remote, a wifi application is what 2015 demands. It could alert you of issues, allow you to schedule, etc.

I owned the roomba 880 for about 2 weeks when I decided to return it. During the time that I owned it, I did everything I could to optimize it's cleaning abilities. I have a large open floor plan home, and the two lighthouses that came with the roomba just weren't able to section off my house effectively to allow efficient cleaning throughout the whole home each night, minus the bedrooms and bathrooms, no matter where I positioned them. When the roomba was put in a small bedroom, it was amazing! It definitely cleaned more dirt from the carpet than any other vacuum ever had. But that's not all I wanted out of my robot vacuum. I have been a neato xv and botvac owner for the last 5 years. I decided to try the roomba because I got tired of repeated software errors and warranty replacements with the neato. I was not a fan of roombas method of cleaning right off the bat. Aimlessly roaming around for a preset amount of time, regardless of the size of the room/house, and bumping into everything in its path, is more than aggravating. Especially after having a neato that methodically maps out the homes floor plan and covers every area with a purpose. Neato doesn't have dirt detect and the same insane sucking power as the roomba though. There's pros and cons for both of them. It's a matter of preference, and what your specific needs are. Having tried both of them, I personally have to stay with the neato botvac because the roomba simply doesn't do well with a large open floor plan, and two lighthouses. Another thing, I really don't like those things. I prefer the magnetic strips neato vacuums use. No batteries to change, no bulky device sticking out in my doorways. Just a little strip that I stick down with double sided tape anywhere I want to block the vacuum and it never has to be messed with again. The final and most devastating reason I can never recommend a roomba to anyone, is the damage it caused to most of my furniture! The majority of the furniture throughout my home is wood. Including custome wood kitchen cabinets. The roomba literally destroyed the bottom few inches of everything in my house! The side spin brush on the roomba, has three brushes in one that stick out past the edge of the vacuum, and spin to kick up dirt along edges as it cleans. These brushes are held together with a hard rubber housing, which also sticks out past the edge of the vacuum by about an inch or so. The hard rubber hits everything that the brush hits, effectivlely stripping any wood it comes in contact with, of its protective coatings, then it's varnish/stain, then it digs into the wood!!! It took almost two weeks for the roomba to eat away at the varnish enough for me to notice the damage. But by then, it was digging into bare wood! After noticing this first on the leg of a chair, I inspected the rest of the home, finding extensive damage on every single piece of wood furniture in my home! I packed that robot up immediately and took it back, and went back to using the Neato botvac again. I hope roomba fixes this brush problem before it ruines their reputation.

IRobot Roomba is a great investment. I say investment because it was $500.00+, but leave it to Best Buy to price match and get me my Roomba delivered to my house in 2 days! We run it everyday and it works like a charm. It runs on hardwood floors, carpet, and tile. You won't be disappointed!

I was paying $100 a week for a cleaning lady that took 8 hours to clean only 1/2 my home -only 2 of us & a cat! Decided to try IRobot -named her Gracie & she is awesome! 2 story home so saving to purchase a 2nd.

The iRobot 880 goes from hardwood floors to carpet without any problem. We have a dog and was surprised how much the iRobot picks up every other day. The best household item we've ever purchased!

This robot is awsome!!! Now my house is always clean, and the best part is that I can save time to spend with my kids. :)

We've owned previous Roombas since the 4200 series and this one is by far the best at 1) picking up all kinds of dirt and pet fur; 2) transitioning successfully from carpet to slate or from slate (or tile) to area rug or from hardwood to area rug, etc. 3) the longest lasting battery. iRobot completely updated how Roomba picks up the dirt and debris with this model and eliminated all of the brushes that used to do that work, with rubber "fingers". This generation Roomba can NOW successfully transition across all kinds of flooring without getting caught-up on any type of threshold (high or tall areas) like from slate/tile/hardwood onto an area rug, and does so without stopping and "asking" for help to get up onto the area rug, etc.. This Roomba can NOW pickup ALL of the dirt and debris on ANY of the flooring surfaces within our house. ALL of the previous Roombas with actual brushes would ALWAYS leave dirt and debris (dog fur especially) in clumps on all of the hard flooring surfaces. Speaking of leaving clumps of dog fur behind, this is also the first Roomba that does not leave those dog fur clumps (or any other kinds of dirt clumps) behind when transitioning from hard surface flooring up onto an area rug or down from an area rug back onto hard surface flooring. ALL of the previous Roombas did leave dog fur and other dirt clumps behind when making the up or down flooring transitions. This is also the first Roomba that is extremely easy to clean when compared to all of the previous Roombas (by FAR!). For Reference: Dog hair that this Roomba encounters daily is: Short, soft, fine fur from a Rhodesian Ridgeback (AMAZING breed, BTW...) short, "wirery" fur from a Labrador/Chesapeake Retriever mix that even our Dyson Animal isn't thrilled with picking up and this 880 Roomba seems to be just as good as the Dyson Animal at picking up this fur (when our 700 series Roomba was/is terrible at picking up this fur), and a medium-haired American German Shepherd. We've not experienced any of the issues that others may have experienced to here's to hoping iRobot worked all of those issues out with the models being sold currently.

My wife wanted to get a Roomba. I wanted to get rid of the dog hair in our rescue facility...uh....house. Four big dogs! I did not expect Roomba to make much of a dent but I've been happily surprised. No, it doesn't get everything. Yes, I still have to spot clean. However, cleaning is now manageable in our home instead of out of control. Set your expectations. Plan to empty Roomba daily and replace the filter frequently. You'll also need to take the rollers out and get hair, etc. off of them. This takes seconds and produces surprisingly little dust. This product is expensive. Too expensive? Depends on your budget. You'll still have to clean, but far less than without it. Hope this helped.