Customer Ratings & Reviews

The iRobot J7 is a wonderful robot to have working around the house. It’s one of iRobots smartest vacuums and has a lot of talent when it comes to cleaning the house thoroughly, and precisely. I really do love this robot. But, let me just say this, because there is more to this story. I do have a Shark. I own the Vertex and that vacuum is the BEST vacuum I’ve ever owned!!! It does anything and everything I need and want. But during the week, however, between a dog, cooking and having guests over, I maybe am able to vacuum once. If I’m lucky. I do have a smaller house, but I have a lot of furniture and dog toys everywhere all the time. And the J7, at least mine, which I’ve named R, manages to get around to all of it. The biggest feature I like about this robot is the no go zones and cleaning zones that can be set up in iRobot’s app. It works amazingly. For example, I don’t like R going anywhere near water. So I have my entire bathroom blocked off. R also takes pictures of anything it sees that can potentially be a obstacle (like dog toys) and sends it to my phone where I can decide if it’s temporary or if it’s a space in my house where I don’t want R to go. Setting up times when I want R to clean is also helpful, as I can be at work doing my thing, and R can be at home doing it’s thing. The self-emptying bin is also a huge plus. It does as the name suggests and I would not recommend buying this vacuum with out it. R also will get updates over time to improve it’s avoidance skills and receive more features. So it’s constantly getting better. As for downsides, I really haven’t had anything to complain about. Most of the reviews I see seem to rely on this vacuum for all the vacuuming. Disclaimer: You CANNOT take iRobot seriously when they say you don’t need to worry about vacuuming for months at a time! That’s just not true and silly to believe. However, I won’t say that there’s no truth to this. R can clean pretty good. And although R can’t replace my Shark, which it’s not supposed to, at least I have another helping hand to keep up with the cleaning throughout the week. Or until I can do my normal vacuuming. I also feel that since I’ve had R, my allergies have been much better as there isn’t dirt being kicked back up in the air when my dog, or us humans are walking around. The biggest downside that I can think of would be the price. I did get the robot on sale for $200 off on Cyber Monday. But for normally being $850, that seems to be a lot, and I would not have gotten it if it weren’t for the savings. Overall, I’m very glad I got R. It works does work great and was designed very well. The band has had many years of experience with robots and seems to know what they are doing when it comes to this area of expertise. The only thing I can suggest is weigh whether you need it or not. What is your situation? Would it benefit you to have it? To own a robot vacuum you need to take a lot of things into consideration. I hope this review will help you decide!

Love how easy it is. I just replace the bag and don’t think about my floors.

Easy to set up. Does the job wife was hoping for. Satisfied.

Tore my left quad tendon in March, and I'm responsible for most of the heavy (vacuuming/moping, etc.) housework duties... oh, we also added a 'fur-shedding' cat to our household, a year prior. Purchasing a Roomba was something I resisted before, so after doing a bit of research, I realized that the J7+ is rated one the top 3 choices of advanced robot vacuum tech. After mapping and programming cleaning cycles, this amazing robot vacuum became my next best friend. I can't believe how efficient it is: the app shares comments about maximizing its cleaning ability, provides full maps of the 1st floor, (where it's located) updates on status of filters/brushes... and more! The J7+ is perfect for the household on the go, (or mend) and I can literally state that it has been a life/stress saver from day one!

Love it! Intuitive and cleans well. Only down side it is A LOT louder than we were expecting. The self empty feature is super nice but it sounds like a turbine engine lol

It’s pretty bad. Unlike older models, this roomba only has one button which means that a simple and often used task like “clean this spot right here” isn’t doable by just moving the roomba to where the mess is and pressing the button. If you try to do this, this “smart” robot will use its auto-generated map of your house to promptly leave the area of the mess and go to where it wants to start “the job”. Not only this, it will not vaccine while it leaves the area! To save power for the job it wants to do. This means you need to use the iRobot app. This might be OK but no. The app is terrible. There is no “clean right here, where I put you” option, just the generated map and self-learned areas. The map actually looks pretty good, you’d think maybe you could just tap an area on the map, and have it clean that, that would be nice! But, no. That’s not how the map works. The app throws errors if you do anything to the bot. Push the bot’s button and the app use useless to do anything other than start or stop the “automatic” job (this isn’t the one you usually want)

It works like I expect iRobot devices to work. It gets the job done.

Working great thusfar. Easy use and good hair pickup with 2 huskies at home.

Cleans very well. Hope they keep improving mapping

I love this so much!! I love how you can set the schedule and let it do its thing. Self cleans, so you just changed the bag when full. I have pets and this is a total game changer when it come to pet hair!!

Have a roomba s9 as well, and this j7+ hands down i prefer. With its amazing obstacle avoidance with the camera on the front, i never come home to a stuck robot. Not once since i bought it 2 months ago. The s9 was constantly getting stuck. That now is on the level of the house that has less regular obstructions. The J7 may not have as wide of brush roll, it may have less powerful suction, but the performance from alot of reviewers show thats not a real hinderence. Also, what go is better performance if the s9 gets stuck all the time and completes less than 50% of jobs. We have pets with toys that was the main cupleret for getting the robot stuck. Not anymore. Highly recomend. And at the 600 sale price its a no brainer.

I have a small ranch with hardwood floors. I do have a lot of pet hair, and this did a fair job of keeping it clean, but I had to replace a motor within 18 months. Then around 20 months I kept getting offline errors and the vacuum wouldn’t work at all. I’d have to mess with it and get it back online. Now at 23 months the battery will not charge. It worked for almost 2 years and now I need to buy a new one. So this cost me $400 a year. SMH They don’t make them to last.

We have had this for almost a year now and have had a good experience with it. This was our first purchase of a "smart vacuum" so we weren't entirely sure what to expect. It does a good job and is quite thorough for the places it can reach. One thing that disappoints me is the lack of intelligence for detecting objects on the floor. We have several cats with plenty of cat toys on the floor. The roomba doesn't seem to detect these and they will get stuck in the vacuum. I have to remind myself to pickup everything in the room before the roomba does it's job.

Very happy and pleased with purchase, easy to set up and use

Having this vacuum robot makes my life easier. I use the automated schedules and it cleans up my whole downstairs every morning. Still have to manually vacuum every now and then but it's not as urgent. Dog fur on carpet isn't 100% picked up but still worth it.

Bought this on Black Friday. Save me a lot of time. Easy setup.

I have had my Roomba J7+ for a little over a month I have it vacuum twice a week and I love it. It vacuums under the beds and in places you could not get a regular vacuum. I pulled out my old vacuum that has a dirt meter on it. I vacuumed after the Roomba and the dirt meter did not register dirt once!

Does a wonderful job. I have thick carpet in my sitting room

Good little upgrade, my original went through pet mistakes and ended up getting ruined , this one is guaranteed to avoid that. I like that it takes pictures of obstacles so you can see what is in its way and such

Time saver, easy to use, superior tech support met all cleaning expectations.