iRobot - Roomba® 960 Wi-Fi® Connected Robot Vacuum - Gray

The Roomba 960 has been cleaning the bottom floor of my house nearly daily since late July. So far I’m very satisfied with the job it’s doing. My wife was skeptical about the value of the robot, but once she saw how much dust and dirt it was picking up from a floor that appeared to be clean, she now uses it daily. We have a dog who sleeps inside the house in a crate and the Roomba has kept the pet dander to a minimum. This has helped a lot with my wife’s allergies as she is allergic to pet dander. Couple of notes from my use - Battery lasts just long enough to complete a cycle through my bottom floor (see picture) - After each cycle I empty the dust bin, remove the filter, rollers, clean all sensors and blow off dust from the robot using a dataVac electronics blower. This takes me about 3-5 minutes as I’ve got my routine down. I usually do this after getting home from work since Roomba runs during the day - I put my couch up on blocks to ensure the entire bottom floor is accessible by the bot. This was the dirtiest place in our house until we started using the Roomba. - 42 completes cycles and the Roomba has found the base station every time - Dust bin full sensor is very delicate regardless of my maintenance routine so I turned on the option to force the Roomba to finish a cleaning cycle regardless of the bin. - After setup on WiFi I can’t seem to get the app to connect until I get off WiFi and onto the cell network then the app runs just fine. I imagine it’s an issue with my router but I haven’t taken the time to trouble shoot why the app is getting blocked - I’ve ran the bot on carpet upstairs a few times and it did a great job, I may get a second bot to clean upstairs. I’ve owned the BotVac connected before and I remember it had issues getting stuck and finding its base station. I don’t know if the new model is any better, but I don’t think I’ll find out because I’m happy with the Roomba. I’m pretty sure the Roomba 980 has the more powerful carpet mode so that will most likely be my next purchase so it can clean the upstairs. The price is a lot considering vacuuming can be done by hand for a lot less, but this Roomba can clean places I can’t and it does the work while I focus on things I need to get done around the house. The extra time saved makes it worth it.

This vacuum works ok unattended if you have just one kind of surface it the room you want it to vacuum. If you have a mix or surfaces such as hardwood and rags, then most likely you won’t be able to use the schedule function or expect it to finish a job on its own as it gets stuck in the corners or the rags. Also, if yoU have a large rug with geometrical shapes with contrasting colors, let’s say beige and dark brown, Rumba won’t cross the shape pattern from a light shade to a darker shade, thinking that the dark shade is a cliff. It will vacuum the light shaded area for 20-30 minutes but won’t cross into the dark shaded areas. So this product does not work for me on the first floor living room/kitchen/dining area which is all one open space. It works good for bedrooms upstairs where I have 100% wall to wall carpet.

Love my Roomba. I have white tile floors throughout the whole house and live in an area where the earth's element are bound to blow in through the windows, so my Roomba does its job everyday and keeps my floors spotless. The only problem I have is some of my furniture is low and the roomba gets stuck under the credenza or dresser, etc and has to call for help by alerting me thru the app, which is fine when I'm home but if I am gone, it just has to stay stuck until I get home. I also have large rugs throughout the house and Roomba has no problem rolling on top and cleaning them as well.

A family member got a less expensive, off-brand robot vacuum, which was tempting, but with two German Shepherds, we knew we needed something that could keep up. As they say, German Shepherds shed twice a year for six months. This model of Roomba has exceeded our expectations. We set it up — with ease — just a couple of hours after the entire house was vacuumed with a Dyson Ball Animal vacuum. As the Roomba passed through the house, it passed under dog beds and brushed along baseboards, sweeping and sucking up dog hair, dust, and fluffy fuzz from who knows what. Our already-vacuumed 2204 sq ft house* filled up the Roomba bin three times on the first run. We were shocked — and thrilled! Check out the photo, attached. *About 900 sq ft of carpet with the rest being hard surfaces, all of which we vacuum The things its done that have pleasantly surprised us most: -Incredible "cliff" edge detection has prevented it from falling into the one room that's sunken down in our house (about 4"). -It's 100% mindful of the boundary device that's included with the Roomba, which we placed in the kitchen to keep it away from our breakfast table and the dogs' bowls (and towels that catch water bowl dribbles). -It gracefully crosses from carpet to luxury vinyl tile to throw rugs without getting stuck or just turning around. -It picks up random pieces of Feline Pine (cat litter) that sometimes makes it way out of the litter box. -It picked up a baffling amount of dog hair, and no doubt dust, from under beds and other places that don't get attention every time we vacuum. There have been only a few mediocre moments. The Roomba didn't have enough charge to get back to home base twice in the past three weeks. One time it got caught up a drawstring to a small bag (it got wrapped around one of the wheels). It's so nice to be able to have clean floors most of the time, instead of fretting every time a guest, neighbor, or family member come by on short notice. We're sure it's helped with allergies and whole-house freshness, too. It is definitely proving itself worth the investment.

I have a bad back and using a regular vacuum kills my back. The Roomba vacuum is one of the Best Buys I’ve made ! No back pain with a Roomba!

The 960 is awesome! It maps where it has been so no guessing, it goes back and forth creating beautiful lines on carpet and finds where it left off if it hits an uneven wall or edge/furniture. I love it!

Super easy to setup and connect to your WiFi connection. If you move away the small things out of it way (chairs, power cables, etc) his iRobot will do an extraordinary work for you.

I really do not know how I lived with out this thing !!!