iRobot - Roomba i7 Wi-Fi Connected Robot Vacuum - Charcoal

Great cleaning bot with a lot of smarts. Note the i7 will give you a scare the first few times you run it in your home. Not because there was a problem with how it cleans but how much it picks up. I was totally shocked when it returned home with a full bin error and I found the bin fully packed. The cleaning paths are detailed and thorough. The speed of the cleaning edge brush is not as fast as older models which helps to stop the bot from spreading the dust and materials around allowing it to clean more efficiently. The smart mapping is awesome in conjunction with smart assistants like Google. I can't tell you how many times I see a mess caused by the kiddos and quickly ask Google to "vacuum the living room" only to hear the little chime of my i7 as it comes to life. I love the scheduling ability of this vacuum as well and if you really want to use this feature to its fullest schedule it to clean the kids room in the morning as a roaming alarm clock ;). Draw backs if you have deep shag carpets this may not work for you and if I had to purchase this again I would just get it with the clean base ( I purchased the self empty base separately). However those areas can, with recent updates, create keep out zones in the app allowing the robot to avoid these areas. Maintenance for this bot is reasonable and most replacement parts can easily be found on Amazon for cheap.

This little Guy is oddly entertaining to watch which ironically defeats the purpose of having it! If I have time to watch it then I have time to get up and do it myself, but I don't care! Anyways this vacuum is everything I'd hoped it'd be. Its quiet and very thorough. and true to I robots claim it learns it's area and barely taps permanently placed items in your house after a couple of cycles. It does not crash into hardly anything and hasn't fallen down the stairs. I have all laminate floors so they get dirty quickly and it gets everything in one run and has no issues going over my various rugs and door mats. I feel blessed to have this fine piece of machinery in my home, just buy it already! you wont regret it.

Overall, this has become a much appreciated and loved item in our home!! Initially, we just wanted it to spot clean the home to keep up with our foot traffic (adults, young child, long haired dog). That said, after seeing how much dirt it keeps coming up with, we have kept it on a schedule of vacuuming everyday. Every single day we fill up the bin full of fur and dirt and we are a pretty clean family! You can schedule times for it to run, label your rooms and do new jobs to any room, view the worst dirt spots on the app, etc! When we had family visiting and things were scattered everywhere, we turned the schedule off and severely missed it! It cannot vacuum the downstairs of our home on one charge (1800 sq ft approximately). It takes 2 charges, but since it returns to home on its own, I don’t have to do anything during that timeframe. My only complaint is the small bin size! However, with the vacuum being the size that it is, I don’t know how much it could be improved. Since we vacuum daily, we have to empty it daily. If you didn’t have a pet, this likely wouldn’t be as large of an issue. Overall, I have no large complaints! It vacuums in a methodical pattern, has pretty good suction, doesn’t miss much, always returns to its charging dock on its own, maps the home really well, has an app, and does the job!

We purchased the I7 after seeing our daughter's Roomba 960 in action. We liked the ease of setting it up and getting the maps created as well as the cleaning results we saw from the i7. We discovered that it has on weakness, though; the rubber used in the manufacture of the two roller brushes is too soft and is damaged easily by long fibers/hair that it picks up while vacuuming. The fibers cut through the rubber, severing them all the way through about an inch from one end of each roller. We had to replace both of them once within a month of buying the unit and now, six weeks later it looks like we will probably have replace them again. At $50 per set, we are very disappointed in the quality of that portion of the machine.

I have programs it to run every morning before my family awakes and like clockwork I come downstairs to see new patterns every morning. This is my third robot, and it’s the best so far. It can be programmed to run certain rooms, or just do the whole house. This is the first iRobot that is making row by row passes unlike the wifi Sams club special that is connected to the web and bumps all over the place like the first generation models. I don’t know about anyone else but chaos is unnerving while there is a newly recognizable pattern (I mow my yard the same way lol) that makes my day a little more sane as my wife has 2 cats and 1 dog supported by our two 5 year old twin boys. #lildukes I did notice that it will not clean if the bin is full or almost full, so I have to ask the wife to empty it, yet the program will tell you to empty the bin as well. I didn’t get the tower yet, I’ve been told it’s not worth it, but maybe for Christmas!

Money well spent! Highly recommend this machine. I've put it through it's paces and this thing is a champ. We have a German Shepherd, a cat and two kids, needless to say pet hair and dirt are a real problem in our home. This vacuum takes care of it all! I love being able to tell Alexa to start the vacuum in whatever room is needing cleaning. Also the fact that it can map the room and I can add No clean zones or areas that require its own special cleaning (think “clean in front of the couch the ”) is great. My only regret is not buying the base that can hold the dirt for several days. I will be buying one in the coming days.

Sadly, everything about it was nice, except pet hair performance.After doing a lot of research we decided on the i7+. While the first two weeks were extremely frustrating waiting for the vacuum to learn the layout, once the learning process was done we have been extremely happy. The biggest mistake we made was being impatient and wanting to rush the learning process. Ultimately that led to having to start all over again because we started naming rooms to be able to use directed cleaning before the Smart Map matched our layout. We were more patient the second time around and while the map is not a perfect match, it's close enough that the vacuum cleans everywhere without any problems. In the 3 weeks we've had the vacuum running we have had one clog (nerf dart) and one "stuck" event. The vacuum cleans our highly used areas every day (family room, dining room, kitchen and entry) and then the bedrooms and bathrooms once each week. If we notice any particular room is dirty/dusty we will just have that room cleaned on demand, which is easy to do from the Phone app. With our schedule we never have to wait for the vacuum to recharge during the middle of a cleaning, which was an initial frustrating during the learning process. While there is definitely room for improvement with things like being able to update the Smart Map more easily after initial learning, all things considered this was a good purchase and one I would make again knowing what I know now.

This is a great product. I have stopped doing my weekly two-hour vacuuming after my buddy has arrived. One thing I like to recommend is to make sure you always purchase a Roomba model which has a built-in map because you don't want the robot to clean everywhere all the time. The reason I give 3 stars is a minor glitch that will cost me a $30 replacement bin in less than 3 months of use. The white filter mesh inside the bin is very flimsy and got pulled out at the edges. Other than that I am impressed by the build quality and the self-learning navigation software that is reinforcing my faith in AI-based products that can perform recurring activities of humans effectively.