iRobot Roomba s9+ (9550) Robot Vacuum & Braava Jet m6 (6112) Robot Mop Bundle - Wi-Fi Connected, Smart Mapping, Powerful Suction, Precision Jet Spray, Corners & Edges, Ideal for Multiple Rooms

I wasn't sure how well the Roomba would work. I especially wasn't sure how well it would "learn" a map of the house and be able to navigate it in a reasonable manner. I was impressed on both counts.The Roomba (this specific model, as I haven't had an earlier version) not only works really well from a vacuuming perspective, but it has done a remarkable job learning the house. Until I saw it working its way around legs on chairs, and under things like our bed, I really hadn't thought about how detailed the map would have to be. It's still learning after multiple runs, but it has become noticeably quicker in how well it moves from place to place. I originally thought that it's somewhat random patterns of navigation would continue, but as it has learned that has given way to a much smoother transition from relatively straight runs across the room to diving under furniture. We decided to move the base station after the map was mostly complete, and I thought it might get confused. Nope. It figured out where it was and returned to the base station to dump the vacuum and charge itself up. It's really pretty slick how well it tracks where it is, and can scoot back to the base station when it needs to.As for the vacuuming, we have two dogs, one of which is a retriever that sheds constantly, and two cats, one of which is a long-hair which leaves clumps of hair around randomly. We're constantly dealing with hair, tracked in dirt, and whatever cats leave on the floor occasionally. The Roomba has done a great job cleaning up after the endless tumbleweeds left by the dogs. I thought my wife would be annoyed by the noise (our only negative comment), but she's so happy with the floors that she's willing to work around that. The animals became oblivious to the Roomba within 15 minutes, and they now just stay out of its way. It's almost funny how oblivious they have become to it.As to the noise, yeah, it can be noisy, but it sort of blends into the background. You can turn down the suction of the thing, but then what's the point? All in all, very pleased with the performance. We're still not running the mop unit, as we're trying to sort out the best place to put it, but that will be for another installment. Right now I highly recommend...we'll see if it holds up.Minor Update, 6/24/2022: So far the Roomba is still doing a great job. I've started seeing a couple minor things that could use some work. First is the battery life. It seems to run well on the hardwood, but cleaning the bedroom, which is carpeted with a high pile carpet, really sucks the juice out of it. It will quit partway into the job and head home to dump the dirt and recharge. I would also like to see the controls moved to the cloud so that it could be managed remotely, or a couple people could manage it, i.e., my wife and me in this case. Maybe it has that flexibility and I haven't found it.On the plus side, the app let me know that I needed to service the brushes, which was a snap--they pop right out. This sort of reminder for a machine that generally operates autonomously is great, as it might be overlooked otherwise.Minor Update, 7/24/2022: As I mentioned before, the animals adapted to the Roomba very quickly. Today I watched our retriever not want to budge for the Roomba. So, it nudged its way around him, even nudging in between his spread out legs. I don't think it even touched the dog. While I realize that not all dogs will get this comfy with a gadget like this, after watching how the Roomba interacts with the animals, I'm even more sold on it. (I found one of the cats draped across the mop the other day while it was in the charging station. It seems these things have been assimilated into the pack of our critters.)Minor Update, 3/25/2023: The Roomba continues to perform well. It's still working as advertised in terms of cleaning. I thought I might mention that it does have one quirk a regular vacuum does not: It can get lost. We've had a couple times now where the Roomba has managed to lock itself into a bathroom. It was trying to get behind the door and managed to push the door closed. We only found it when we noticed it hadn't returned to the charging station. It has also managed to get itself stuck behind the sofa. After a while it finally gave up trying to escape and shut down. Fortunately, it let the app know that it was stuck and needed help. I had to use the "find" feature in the app to figure out where it had gone. These are not show stoppers at all, but they are different problems than you might have with a standard vacuum--none of which I have had have ever taken off and gotten themselves lost or trapped.Another Update, 1/6/2024, and my first critical comments: The Roomba is still working well, but after living with it, I do have a couple critical observations. 1. Comparing it to a regular vacuum, the Roomba is, honestly, more fragile. Vacuum cleaners are pretty simple devices--they suck up dirt. You either empty the canister or bag, and that's about it. The Roomba is more complex. The Roomba has sensors that detect when things are full of dirt (a plus, right?). Those can get dirty, and the Roomba may not want to launch until they've been cleaned. You actually have to manually clean the thing now and again. 2. The internal filter has to be replaced occasionally. The rollers and the edge brush wear out, and have to be replaced from time to time. which I mentioned above. The Roomba will let you know how much life you have left in these parts, but it's not just a "fire and forget" sort of device. 3. Also, because the Roomba takes off on its own, it can get lost or stuck. It's not a big deal, but it did manage to get itself stuck under a dresser, and had to be rescued. It does have a feature to locate it, so at least it's easy to find. So, do I still think it's a great gadget? Yes. That said, I sounded like a fan boy, and I thought it would be fair to show off a couple of its warts.Another update, 10/9/2024. This thing keeps plugging along. It runs daily, and other than the replaceable parts needing replacement, it still works fine. Regarding the replaceable parts, those are a requirement. The side and bottom roller brushes need routine--not constant but routine--replacement. Filters need to be replaced. I finally ran into an issue that might have thrown some people. The vacuum just quit and sat in the middle of the floor. I put it back in the charger and forgot it. A couple days later, it had not moved again. I tried a system reboot. No joy. I cleaned things up (all the sensors). Nope. It seems that some very fine dust had gotten into the contacts for the battery, and essentially killed this thing. I finally took it apart, pulled the battery out and blew any fine dust out with compressed air. Ta da! So, not a big deal, but I can see some users getting sick of the maintenance and calling it quits. My wife was already talking about getting another one if this one died, as she's that happy with the how it cleans up after the critters. Just something to be aware of. Note the date on this. This thing has run almost daily since getting it, and it continues to perform. In terms of durability, no complaints at all.

Please read all of this - my frustration with this product has finally gotten the better of me.This product is an absolute piece of garbage. The cleaning is ok and just ok. It does make it more convenient to keep the floors clean - I hate doing floors and toilets - but who doesn't.After researching and waiting, I was so excited to get this product on promotion during the holidays. However, my excitement has gone down the toilet and my experience has been way less than stellar. Now after having it for a little over 3 months, I have to figure out how to tell my husband that it's really not working and let's get something else. It's making me really want to do this #%&$!$%#@$%^&*%! If you know what I mean.I do have a lot of square footage in my home to map (about 2600 sq ft), so I was prepared to be patient. However, what I experienced as way beyond my expectations. It took 3.5 solid weeks of mapping to get both robots mapped. Several times I had to pick up the robot and start it in a room and pray it would find it's way back home. If and when it finally did, it would create a 2nd floor if you will in the app. It did finally merge with the first map but took a while.Smart mapping is dumb mapping - you have to run both of them separately to get 2 different maps with 2 different sets of room sizes and furniture locations. One can't work off the other and adjust for footprint size of the robot. It's a computer program and math - why can't you. Duh... that WOULD be smart mapping.Now, I magically have an extra room that got created within a room for no reason at all AND I CAN'T DELETE THE ROOM DIVIDERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! to get rid of the unneeded room. (I have a triangle within the dining room.) I've tried uninstalling and reinstalling the app several times to no avail. The program keeps crashing on me. I've even tried it on a different device - NOTHING.All Smart Map does for you is start the 2nd robot after the first one is done - and then you have to wait until it's COMPLETELY done to start. So if robot 1 takes 1.5 hrs to complete several rooms, robot 2 can't start until after robot 1 is done. Smart would be that after robot 1 is out of an area robot 2 starts. So, in order to get floors done in a timely fashion, it's quicker and easier to start the 2nd robot while 1st is still going but out of the area.Don't get me started on the robots' performance. They both CRASH and I do mean CRASH into everything still. They go where they're not supposed to (Keep Out Zones) and don't go where they are (Clean Zones) - or they'll clean partial of an area. I've rebooted several times to no avail.I tile though out my home, so it should go fast and easy - right? Yeah - not! The vacuum doesn't get everything all the time and the mop...... The mop has a 12 inch pad that does a spot about 4 inches wide. No wonder it takes hours to do daily cleaning.The way IRobot has the system set up it sometimes takes 3-4-5-6 attempts at starting a cleaning job to get the robot to go. Then when it gets back it can take up to 15 minutes to save the cleaning map. I hate to think what would happen if I actually scheduled it to run a favorite at a certain time every day. Probably wouldn't start on time or at all.And don't try to just clean an area without having a favorite made. It doesn't like that. It won't start.Oh, and docking. The vacuum gets back ok the majority of the time, but the mop has a lot of issues. Just found it this morning not fully on the dock and not fully charged from 3 days ago. Looked like it was on but not. It even registered last week that it was back and docked properly. Before you ask - no pets or kids to interfere. Just my husband and I. He doesn't go near either robot and I know to step around.Customer service is a joke - I've been put on hold so they can check with someone else because they don't know. Customer service has to call customer service. There's a laugh!!!!! And if you check that IRobot can contact me, they don't - or if they do, it's a standard e-mail that follows a flow chart because Hey "You're too stupid to use the help they offer online" and all they do is re-repeat what you've already read and tried and done.