Customer Ratings & Reviews

If you're new to the robot vacuum game, iRobot has been upgrading and perfecting their Roomba vac series for years, with its latest machine offering the combination of powerful dirt-syphoning prowess and quality hands-free characteristics to make cleaning your floors an afterthought. At first glance, the Roomba 105 looks deceptively small considering it comes with an auto-emptying dock that collects the Roomba's dirty work after every job. Rather than housing the vacuum with a massive dock as in previous models, the small AutoEmpty dock is short and unassuming, with a simple opening that aligns with the Roomba automatically at the end of jobs and two small connector prongs that charge the vacuum when it comes in contact. The Roomba 105 itself is its usual black circle shape with almost no protruding parts except a small underside brush. Lastly, the vac comes with its mop attachment and an extra mop head for good measure. Getting to the down and dirty, the Roomba 105 startup sequence is really simple once it's out of the box and fully charged. While I'm not a fan of having to download yet another app onto my phone to control this thing, at least the the Roomba Home app is straightforward and easy to use. It provides cleaning recommendations, area maps, and automations that let you schedule cleaning routines. You can even point your vacuum to an area on the map, and the Roomba 105 will head to that location and spot clean the area. The app is also your one-stop shop to order any replacement parts or to contact iRobot for any support requests. Once it gets going, this vacuum/mop combo really does a good job. It moves seamlessly from carpeted areas to hard surfaces to rugs, automatically switching from mop to vacuum as needed. Its sensors pick up everything in front of it, so if you're like me and have kids that leave things all over the floor, you won't have to worry about the vacuum clogging up as often as you would think. My cleaning sessions did experience a few errors initially as it was populating and learning the room map and running into odd chair angles and busy corners of my living room. A big plus is the sensor catching stairway edges and unlevel door entrances - the Roomba 105 didn't have any problems cleaning in these danger zones, and I wasn't worried about finding an alert that the vacuum had fallen down the stairs or anything. Overall, the Roomba 105 does a fine job cleaning and even better job performing the duties without any oversight. A robot vacuum does have its built-in set of drawbacks. The vac is confined to one floor of your home or office, so you will either be satisfied with only one floor of hands-free cleanliness or you may need to consider alternatives for more floors. But for the floor you choose, your new Roomba 105 will be a set-and-forget automaton that keeps that area clean without the hassle of doing it yourself. That in itself makes this an easy recommendation.

Love my purchases. Use it everyday to keep the fine dust and dirt as well as the pet dust and dander at bay.

I absolutely love the roomba mop/vacuum battery life is great. Performs wonderfully no issues