Customer Ratings & Reviews

This is a game changer. The dust compactor really is convenient

This little robot does an amazing job. My carpenting has never looked so nice. There is not even a smidge of dust on my hard wood floor in the kitchen. Thank you

Love this! Easy to set up and cleans well! I highly recommend this Roomba

I (now) love my new Roomba. Had an issue with its battery/not charging right out of the box. Called customer care who were lovely and able to hard reset it and solve. This is so much better than my old one. I’ve gotten into the habit of scheduling it daily so I get home to fresh floors/rugs. Haven’t had to empty it yet and it’s been almost 3 weeks which is a BIG difference vs my previous. Highly recommend.

Great product if value It is efficient and easy to use The associate was very helpful explaining its features

Great except mine doesn’t always get back on the dock correctly. Otherwise I love it!

so quiet! love it! replaced my older generation irobot with this model and very impressed!

I prefer the roomba sweeper than the combo. I tried the combo and it stopped working after 2 months. The sweeper is the way to go.

It's only an assistant. You'll still need to vacuum yourself if you want a clean house.

Discovering Roomba for the first time has been eye-opening. This 205 model I tried boasts an onboard mechanical compactor that holds debris for up to 60 days—no bulky dock required. This was very important to me as my house is small and crowded and not possible for a dedicated dock to take up precious space. The Roomba’s three-stage cleaning system delivers 70× more power-lifting suction than prior models and uses a multi-surface rubber brush plus a corner sweeper to capture crumbs, pet hair, and dust bunnies alike. LiDAR mapping feels futuristic, guiding the robot in neat rows around furniture, even in the dark. The initial mapping of my home was very quick, a lot faster than a different brand I had used in the past. The mapping was also accurate without any issues. I effortlessly scheduled cleanings from the intuitive app, setting zones to target high-traffic areas or skip empty rooms. The Roomba’s battery lasts over three hours before automatically recharging and resuming where it left off. At under a foot tall, its sleek design blends seamlessly with home decor and tucks neatly under couches. As someone new to the Roomba brand, I’m impressed by how this compact powerhouse simplifies daily floor care, saving time and maintaining clean floors without hassle. I no longer have to trot out my heavy vacuum and do weakly cleanings now that I have the Roomba.

Don't waste your time. This thing quit working after about a week. After reading some troubleshooting help, I got it working again. I did a GREAT job....for about a month. Then it just stopped working again. The app said there was an update but it couldn't connect to the network. After an exhausting hour or so trying to get it to reconnect, it just locked up. The lights on top are on, but it won't do anything. I even tried a factory reset, but it won't even let me do that. iRobot customer service is the textbook definition of "useless". The virtual assistant keeps saying "I can't find an answer for that" (no matter what I ask it), and you can't talk to a human to save your life. $300 paper weight is all I have, and they apparently don't stand behind their product, because they won't even talk to you. Save your money, you have been warned.

Very easy to use. Excellent coverage of our tile floors.

I enjoy this product it makes my life so much easier!

I wish I had bought this earlier. This has been a game changer for the dog hair to be manageable.

I purchased this vacuum because I wanted to get away from the huge charging base that our present vacuum needs. This one came defective from the factory. Not very good quality control at all. Everything went well as far as setup goes. The vacuum would not move off the charging base at all after 6 hours of charging. It stopped as soon as it disconnected from the charging post. Obviously, I will be returning it to Best Buy.

Worked fine, mapping feature wasn’t the best. A little pricey for what it is compared to others

I highly do not recommend this robot. It constantly gets lost. The side brush is always coming off. The cleaning performance is not that good. Irobot really took a step backwards when coming out with this new line of Roomba they took away the dual brushes the dirt detect and a whole bunch of other features. I would highly recommend getting an older model over this model. Yeah the lidar navigation is cool and I think it works better because you can run the unit at night but it’s still constantly getting lost and can’t find its way back home. The dust compactor is pretty cool. Don’t get me wrong but very difficult to clean because once you pull the bin open. A big plume of dust goes everywhere. I would probably stick with the J9 plus I plan on returning this unit and getting the new 705 max and hoping that one performs better

I was so disappointed in this purchase. The app is horrible and customer service was worse. After two phone calls and sending pictures and model number/ serial number etc, I was promised an escalation call within 48 hours. I could not get the unit to complete the initial mapping at first and then I closed all my doors and only had it map a small area. Still would not clean. After waiting for five days for help, I returned the unit to Best Buy and bought a Shark which has worked incredibly well. iRobot customer service finally emailed me after almost a week. The rep who reached out was good and apologetic and promised to look into how they did not follow up with me.

Do not buy. The first one failed and had to be replaced. About 6 weeks later, the second one failed for the same reason. Tech support from Roomba is not helpful at all and is difficult to reach. Now I'm beyond the return period with Best Buy and stuck with a non-working vacuum. Not Best Buy's issue but don't buy a Roomba

I was super interested in this new vacuum from Roomba because I was looking for something that came in a compact formfactor but was able to handle dust and hair for longer periods of time without my intervention. I was especially interested in the new Dust Compactor since previous robot vacuums had struggled with the resulting volume of hair which gets sucked into their self-emptying stations and often trigger a “full” notification and require the bag to be changed. The 205 DustCompactor, as the name implies features a dust bin that compacts, rather than emptying into a docking station. After using this vacuum over the past several weeks I have walked away with several impressions: - The Roomba navigation is logical and top notch covering the perimeter and middle of each of the rooms. The navigation has so far been repeatable and reliable. - The app and status of the robot is lacking in my setup. Sometimes the status and location of the robots isn’t clear or lags substantially. This may be due to the fact that I have multiple access points in my home and the robot is disconnecting from one and reconnection to another which causes the delay. The robot seems to update when it wants and when updating there is no progress bar or anything indicating when it might be done, just telling me if it doesn’t become available after a certain period of time that I should intervene and restart it. I assume typically the updates shouldn’t affect the user experience, but I would like the ability to select a preferred update time window. - Does well with dog and human hair, but hair still gets caught inside the roller and it isn’t clear if that will cause issues later. I have Great Pyrenees which are exceptionally hairy, so this might only be a concern if you have comparatively hairy dogs. - It is VERY quiet but very effective and picked up almost all the visible dust and hair on its first run in my living room. It does get louder on carpet as it adjusts its suction, but you could easily run it at night with your bedroom door closed and never know that it ran. - Room editing tools work well for defining zones and “no-go” areas. Trivial to make changes and get everything setup. - A small critique for a small detail, but the battery terminals do not match up with the robot when the robot is pushed all the way forward on the dock. You should place the robot on the dock and back it up half an inch or so until you see the lights come on. I had placed the robot manually on the dock only to come back a week later and realize that it had died and that I hadn’t actually placed it on the charger. When it docks automatically this isn’t a problem. Overall, I have been impressed with this novel take in the robot vacuum cleaner space. After having this unit for a month I still have not had to empty the unit so the dust compactor features seems to be working wonderfully especially on something like hair that would usually take up a large volume. It’s a very cool idea and I’m glad to see them trying new and different approaches in what has become a mostly iterative category.