iRobot Roomba 694 Robot Vacuum-Wi-Fi Connectivity, Personalized Cleaning Recommendations, Works with Alexa, Good for Pet Hair, Carpets, Hard Floors, Self-Charging, Roomba 694

Impressive home vacuum assistant
After reading reviews on all the different robot vacuum cleaners, this is the Roomba I chose. It does a great job picking up hair, dust and light debris on the floor. It’s great to have a “second set of hands” to keep up with cleaning between regular vacuuming and cleaning if you like a super clean home. It doesn’t replace the regular vacuuming with a HEPA vacuum cleaner, but it does do a significant job in between regular cleanings. The dust bin was full each time we have run it. Impressive. It was easy to empty the dust bin and clean the brushes on the base of the cleaner. I do appreciate ease in cleaning.It does well on hardwood floors, tile, as well as wool and sythnetic rugs. It is able to transition over thresholds and even lamp bases. As it is pretty narrow, it slides under the sofa and other furnishings to pickup dust and debris. You can program it to do regular cleanings so if you want the Roomba to clean on Mondays at 9 AM, it will do it or you can have it clean manually. This is available on the phone app. It takes about 90 minutes to clean and then it returns to its charging station. And you can move it floor to floor to clean other levels of the home.It is not super smart as it bumps and finds it way around furniture and other things, but eventually it finds itself out of the location it got into. I’m ok with this as I’ve learned you just need to make space for it to maneuver and get things off the ground before a cleaning session. I don’t need it to map out my location as I prefer privacy over efficiency as my spaces are not huge. Because it can go over thresholds, it can sometimes get caught up on the base of our stools which is a metal, wire base. This is where the Roomba signals defeat and it sends an alert on your phone. It is a bit loud as you can hear it vacuuming through the house, but if you’re on a different level and you shut your door while working, it is hardly noticeable.Overall, I’m happy with this Roomba. It’s cost effective and helps around the house. Who doesn’t want some help?

Good if you have pets
PROS: 1) suction is fairly impressive for this small machine. Picks up hair, dust, crumbs, scrap pieces of thread and material (I sew and quilt).2) Pretty quiet, a LOT less noisy than a regular vacuum. There’s a constant buzz that one can get used to fairly easily. Can still easily hear the radio or TV at normal volume levels.3) Didn’t scare the dogs too much b/c it wasn’t too noisy, although they were very curious and followed it around for the first few times I had it running.4) Easy set up and use: Plug it in, charge it up (give it at least a couple hours to charge completely), press the button and let it go.5) Doesn’t snag on small floor mats/carpets. Puppy pads I lay out does get crunched up a bit, but at least it doesn’t stop the Rumba and cause me to redirec it. Rumba figures out it’s not something to be sucked up and turns around to continue on.6) Pretty easy to clean (i.e. removing the parts and getting out the hairs and debris took about 1-2 minutes (I like to clean all the hairs from the bristle brush and rubber brush on the bottom of the machine) Dog fur will get caught in the moving parts so cleaning it all out I think would prolong the life of your Rumba.CONS: 1) Should clean it out every time it’s used. Depending on how large your home is that the Rumba has to cover and how much it has to suck up, the bin gets full pretty quickly.2) Rumba doesn’t seem to stop. I had it running for over 2 hours, but it never decided it was done and returned on its own to it’s docking station. I had to physically pick it up and return it to the docking station.I feel this was a good purchase for me (someone with dogs who wants a tidy home). Saves me a lot of time from sweeping & vacuuming.

It is not worth 600 bucks. I bought it on sale for 290 and that is a fair price since it bumps into everything and gets lost. You can tell the algorithm it used to move around, if it it at a table or chair leg it does a 360 circle then goes on in a random direction and if it hits a wall it does a 90 degree turn etc. Will have trouble finding a home base even with wifi but for a small apartment it does wonders. I occasionally get notified it is stuck or something when I run it away from home but I come home and find it and move it myself which is still better than vacuuming myself. It has great suction and a 90 minute battery and have big wheels that are strong enough to move a whole kitchen chair if it gets stuck. Fairly loud so I set the app to run when I leave home and it uses my phones location and starts when I go out. If you have a large space or lots of stuff on your floors I recommend the 900 dollar one with mapping but I have a one bedroom with hardly any clutter and very rectangular floor layout so it is great. I run it every day and its awesome.

We have two white-haired dogs who shed hair constantly, creating ‘drifts’ around the house.Pros:Our floors are 90% wooden with some small carpeted areas and a little lino and the Roomba has no problems with any of them. It handles changes in levels between the older and newer sections of the house and deals with obstacles like chair legs and kids’ shoes very well. We’ve had no problems with it picking up any objects or cables yet, though it is advisable to clear the floor of anything small, like LEGO.Cons:It is a lot noisier than I expected. The Roomba is designed to work when you’re not in the house. It also takes a long time to return home if instructed – like 10+ minutes, but that might be a learning issue.It’s early days, we’ve only had it for a few days, but it works as described.