Customer Ratings & Reviews

The iRobot - Roomba 205 DustCompactor Robot Vacuum turned out to be somewhat of a mixed bag for me. The setup seemed simple enough, but I was a bit confused by the power button initially and ended up draining the battery instead of charging it. When I went to perform a cleaning a second time, again the battery was dead and unable to vacuum. The charging base is rather light and small, so it’s easy to get knocked around from its original position, which is not necessarily a good thing. After some initial stumbles, I was able to successfully load the app on my iPhone, update the firmware, and start the mapping of areas to clean. Of course, I had to name it “Rosie” in honor of the futuristic maid on the Jetsons cartoon back in the early 60’s. Vacuum suction has four settings and the number of cleaning passes can be set to 1 or 2 passes. It did a good job of mapping the house, but it did seem to get hung up on some of our Ruggable rugs, especially at the corners. However, it did an overall good job of sweeping and vacuuming and I was surprised to see how much dust and debris were collected in the dust bin. Emptying the bin can be a bit messy but that’s to be expected without any kind of bag. Through no fault of its own, the Roomba 205 was unable to clean under the dining table, simply because it couldn’t navigate through the forest of chair legs. Unfortunately, it’s an area of the floor where a lot of crumbs are found, especially with what falls from our year-and-a-half grandson. It did a terrific job cleaning under our sectional sofa, and I surmise that’s where most of the dust and pet hair were vacuumed up. I did notice some scratches on the top of Roomba after cleaning, probably from scraping some of the lower wood portions of the sofa…no doubt battle scars! It’s relatively quiet in operation and it didn’t seem to bother our two dogs, and they didn’t seem to bother it either, which is a good thing. I would be hesitant to have it clean while I am away, not at least until I get some history under my belt of how well it cleans on a consistent basis. I suspect if you are OCD like me, it will be nice to have the Roomba do a quick cleaning on a frequent basis, but it won’t replace a good thorough cleaning with a hand vacuum to get in the corners and under the dining table.

This is my first robot vacuum and I am thoroughly impressed! I love the idea of the dust compactor since I don't have a lot of extra room for some of the larger docks. Easy set up using the quick start guide printed right on the box. After super quick mapping, my robot was out on its first mission to the kitchen and picked up all the crumbs, including flour I had dropped on the floor from dinner prep. I am loving not having to drag out the upright vacuum and do it myself. Even the kids are planning the next mission and watching the maps. I'm excited that I can get clean floors while spending time on something else.

I really liked one of my older versions of this robot. So I was super excited when I seen it, and couldn't wait for it to come to my house! I wasted a lot of time trying to program it to my app, because I was looking for a card that had the Scan code, but it was actually on a box inside the box it came in. I originally downloaded the iRobot app, and it wasn't the one for the particular robot I had. I have multiple products that does a lot of different things from the same company, and they're all on one app. I didn't have issues trying to get the robot to charge because it was dead when it arrived. After finally getting everything set up, and Bluetoothing it to my phone and Wi-Fi, I set up the rooms for it to clean and it was off! For the most part you've done a really good job with a deep cleaning feature, the problem is, I couldn't get it to go down the hallway where my front door is. I restarted and sent it off again, but for some reason it would not go down that entryway. Finally I ended up getting it to go down the entryway, that didn't have anything in it to block the robot from doing his job, but it just would not clean the entire floor. I delayed my review for an extra couple days to see if it was anything I was doing wrong, and I don't think it's me. I really hope whatever glitches they have in the app is updated and fixed, because I really love my older version of this robot, and I wanted to have one downstairs and one upstairs.

Works great. cleans very well. Love the Automation features.

I'm a long-time Roomba owner and am happy with this purchase so far. I bought this as an upgrade for my 'experienced' 600 series robot and am impressed with the improved cleaning power after a few runs. The new mapping system took a fraction of the time to create a map of my house, and I love the new app where you can follow the path of the robot while it cleans.

With three dogs and hair galore, my older Romba was being overwhelmed. This seemed perfect, but failed to pick up hair my older unit handled with ease, the difference is two brushes vs one.