Samsung - POWERbot R980020 App-Controlled Self-Charging Robot Vacuum - Airborne Copper

Vacuuming doesn't get done as often as it should around our house, but with this vacuum we just push the start button and off it goes! We were so amazed at how much it actually sucks up! After it has done a room you can tell it's been vacuumed!

Had 3 weeks now. Set to run every day at 8 am. Take a look at the attached picture. Thanks for my dog that is one day's pickup. LOVE LOVE LOVE

I have never had a robot vacuum, so I will not compare the Airborne Copper with other options. My use case for this vacuum is a two-story house, with mixed carpet, bathroom tile and hardwood floors, and a few small rugs here and there. Some rooms have cables on the floor, both thick and thin. In some spots, the separation between carpet and hardwood happens with a short piece of wood (a "bump"). Conventional furniture. No cats, two small dogs. Vacuuming with a manual vacuum normally takes 1.5 to 2 hours. First, I set the Airborne Copper at the ground floor and let it go in Auto mode, Dust Sensor on. At this setting, the Airborne Copper moving algorithm will walk it into straight patterns, attempting to align with the wood grain, walls, or another room feature. I have found the vacuum performs well, going the full length and area of the rooms. If it does not visit some area of the room at first, it will eventually go back to that area after it finishes its search pattern and/or recharges. The walk algorithm is not random or bounce-and-restart. The obstacle avoidance system is composed by a number of sensors, such as infrared sensors at front, camera at top, bump sensor at front, void detection at bottom (to avoid falling down stairs), and motor strain (to detect when the motors are running but the vacuum is not moving due to being stuck somewhere). There might be a tilt sensor too, it appears. They work in conjunction and work well. The vacuum will stop before bumping into most obstacles, such as walls, and smartly recovers after bumping into something it could not properly detect. The weak point of obstacle detection are dark materials, in particular black furniture, low black shelves that sit above the height of the bump detector (the vacuum will not see them and will hit them, attempting to move forward until understanding it is stuck; only then it backs up). Curved furniture legs or soft ramps (such as legs that climb in a ramp) are also a weak point: the vacuum might not seem them, and then attempts to climb them, with a high probability of getting stuck. When the vacuum detects an obstacle, it will circle the obstacle in search of a clear path. There is a gap between the rolling brushes and the rest of the body that houses the wheels and motor. If the obstacle is a slim furniture leg, this leg might get lodged in between this gap while the vacuum is circling. When this happens and the vacuum cannot free itself, it will simply stop and cry for help (a soft alarm-melody plays for a while). Thick cables are usually not a problem. The vacuum will just climb over them and go about its business. Thin cables indeed might get sucked and tangle into the roller brushes. In one such occasion, the vacuum halted and cried for help. The power of the obstacle avoidance system, and one of the points that sold me for this product, was exemplified when the vacuum detected and delicately circled around one of my dogs who was sleeping on the floor, never touching him. Transferring the vacuum between floors proved seamless. The Airborne Copper will map the new environment and vacuum properly in straight patterns. As the battery is exhausted, the Airborne Copper will turn off the vacuum engine and trace its way back to the charging station. Sometimes it does this by tracing walls, sometimes it will follow an optimum path. And sometimes it will get lost and stop. I experienced that on my top floor, in which the charging station was installed in a room separated from the others by a bridge. The vacuum kept going to the wrong direction, which would put it into a room close to the goal but with no direct connection to it. The vacuum has a schedulers that works either with a daily schedule, or a one-time schedule. I would like to have a more advanced scheduler, which could allow different times per day. Finally, this is a vacuum, not a power broom. It does suck dirt, and it even sucked marbles and small toy pieces. The dust sensor makes it slow down the movement and increase the suction power while it detects dirt on the floor in repeated passes. It is not particularly noisy (much less than a conventional vacuum); there is a "silent" mode that decreases the suction power and resulting noise. In conclusion, I had to sell one leg and mortgage two arms to purchase this Airborne Copper. I come home to clean floors and tidy, vacuumed carpets daily without having to spend hours every week to manually vacuum (I have not used the manual vacuum since I purchased the Airborne Copper). It was worth every single penny of its price.

I did a lot of research and I'm glad I bought this robot. The list price is the same as the Roomba 980, but I got the Samsung on sale at Best Buy so I paid $200 less than a Roomba which I could not find on sale even though I looked for two months. I've had the robot for a month now. Works very well on our mix of hardwood and rugs. The bot won't climb up on our big thick shaggy rug, but I didn't really expect it to. It does climb up onto the other big thick rugs that aren't shaggy. The dirt compartment is very easy to empty. We have a cat and it picks up lots of cat hair. The noise level is better than I expected. Much less than our manual vacuum cleaners. We have lots of chairs and stools and although the bot does a pretty job getting around them, I put the kids' chairs and stools up on the table and counter so the bot can more easily get to all the kids' crumbs. The only disappointment is that it doesn't get under the overhang of our kitchen cabinets very well. But I just run a broom under the cabinets to push the dirt out where the bot can get it. The cat hid from the bot the first time we ran it, but now the cat just ignores the bot the same way the cat ignores the rest of us.

We have looked at robotic floor cleaners for years. Best Buy had one performing at its store when we were looking at Samsung appliances for our kitchen remodel. I asked to see it demonstrated & was very impressed with everything but its price. We did purchase Samsung appliances & the salesman offered a discounted price if we purchased it then - sold! We like its programming features & for keeping our home tidy we are very pleased. It can clean the entire floor (7 rooms) in one charging most of the time. It does not replace the heavy duty Dyson as you have to clean corners & under some furniture but less often. It is great if you are expecting company & run out of time. You also need to remove rugs with long pile, its just stops when it runs onto these. Being in our senior years it helps to have a little maid drop by.

We did our research on all the brands and models available. We were looking for a self-automated vacuum that would be able to keep our 3000+ sq ft floor and rugs clean since we have 4 kids, 2 dogs and 2 cats. Absolutely love this product from Samsung! Roomba was like a vacuum with ADD. It wouldn't leave our dining room and wouldn't go on any of the rugs. The samsung cleans the rugs and floors with ease. It hasn't gotten stuck and the entire floor and carpet was cleaned. It knows where it has been and where it needs to go. It knows what it is doing all by itself. I have set it to clean every morning at 8:00 and when I get home it is spotless. Yes, it is pricey but the time saved to do other things and the fact you don't have to mess with wires is definitely worth the price. Going to pick up a second unit for the upstairs! We did put aluminum foil over some of the sensors bc it did want to hesitate at first with dark colors but once we did - we've had no problems! I don't think we will be doing that with the upstairs model though!

You can either set this up on an auto-timer or just select clean (4 stages of cleaning) when ready. It maps out all your rooms by mapping the ceiling, so it knows your rooms and if you change the furniture it doesn't mess up what it remembers about the room. It has a battery of 60 minutes and then finds its way back to its base to recharge then goes back to where it stopped and continues cleaning. I am always impressed with how much dirt it manages to find each week - and works on carpet, tile and hardwood

Easy to use. Just charge it and push "play"! The appearance of my carpet is cleaner than after using my shark upright. We have dogs and run the "bot" every day. After a month, the hopper is less full every time which tells me it's gotten all that was missed by other vacuum cleaners and is getting ahead of the dog hair! We are older and vacuuming every day had become a real chore to the point I was considering a maid. The power bot make life easier for us! Takes about 30 min to do 1500 square feet. Gets around the furniture with no problems but it's too tall to get under the couch or bed. It's capacity is better than expected for power and dirt! It's not as loud as upright but it has silent mode if you want to watch tv! Excellent product that does everyday cleaning to military clean standards!