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# 4-Stage Cleaning System 60-Day Self-Emptying Bin PrecisionVision Smart Mapping Roomba Combo j5+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum & Mop – Identifies and Avoids Obstacles Like Pet Waste & Cords, Empties Itself for 60 Days, Clean by Room with Smart Mapping, Works with Alexa​

**Brand:** irobot
**Price:** R$6132
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## Summary

> 🧹 Elevate your clean game—because your floors deserve a smarter, hands-free shine!

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- **What is this?** Roomba Combo j5+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum & Mop – Identifies and Avoids Obstacles Like Pet Waste & Cords, Empties Itself for 60 Days, Clean by Room with Smart Mapping, Works with Alexa​ by irobot
- **How much does it cost?** R$6132 with free shipping
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## Best For

- irobot enthusiasts

## Why This Product

- Trusted irobot brand quality
- Free international shipping included
- Worldwide delivery with tracking
- 15-day hassle-free returns

## Key Features

- • **Hands-Free Maintenance:** Self-emptying base holds 60 days of debris—set it and forget it for months.
- • **Dual-Action Clean Power:** Vacuum and mop combo with powerful suction and microfiber mop for spotless floors.
- • **Smart Obstacle Avoidance:** Advanced camera tech detects and dodges pet waste, cords, and clutter in real time.
- • **Alexa & Voice Integration:** Seamlessly fits into your smart home ecosystem for effortless voice-activated cleaning.
- • **Room-by-Room Custom Control:** Use the app to schedule, create no-mop zones, and clean exactly where you want.

## Overview

The iRobot Roomba Combo j5+ is a next-gen robot vacuum and mop hybrid featuring a powerful 4-stage cleaning system, PrecisionVision navigation that avoids obstacles like pet waste and cords, and a self-emptying bin that stores up to 60 days of debris. Designed for busy professionals, it offers smart mapping with room-specific cleaning, app and voice control compatibility, and effortless maintenance to keep your home impeccably clean with minimal effort.

## Description

The Roomba Combo™ j5+ robot vacuum & mop is designed for both wet and dry floor cleaning—converting our most popular Roomba® j7+ vacuum to a vacuum & mop solution with the simple switch of a bin. Unleash powerful, accurate cleaning when, where, and how you want. The Roomba Combo™ j5+ robot vacuum and mop packs not only Power-Lifting Suction, but also unique intelligence that learns your home and your routines to give you custom cleaning control. With PrecisionVision navigation, your robot knows to avoid objects like pet waste, cords, socks, and shoes for worry-free cleaning.

Review: Impressive Cleaning Power and Reliable Performance Worth Every Penny! - I purchased the iRobot Roomba i5 during a discount deal, and I absolutely don’t regret it. After using it for about a year, I can confidently say it’s one of the best small home investments I’ve made. The vacuum quality is excellent it picks up dust, debris, and especially pet hair with no problem, even in corners and under furniture. I have two dogs, and thanks to this vacuum, there’s not a single hair left anywhere. It’s been a total game-changer for keeping the apartment clean. I don’t use the mopping function much; I mainly rely on it for vacuuming, and the results speak for themselves. You can clearly see and feel the difference between a cleaned floor and a dirty one. In terms of durability, it’s held up great after a year of use. No issues with the wheels, brushes, or sensors. It covers my one-bedroom apartment thoroughly, typically running for around 45 minutes, sometimes a bit longer if there are obstacles that confuse it during its mapping process. The functionality is solid. It maps the apartment effectively and adapts over time. The app is very simple and intuitive, giving you all the basic information and control you need without being overly complicated. Noise level is reasonable not silent, but quiet enough to run while your home without being annoying. The sensitivity of the sensors is generally good, though sometimes it struggles with new obstacles or small cords, but nothing major. Overall, if you're looking for a reliable, efficient, and easy-to-use vacuum especially if you have pets the Roomba i5 is highly recommended. Great performance, solid build, and very convenient for small apartments or homes.
Review: If this thing was a tiny bit smarter, it would be much better! - My biggest issue with the Roomba is that it usually dies from the battery going dead before it makes it back to the charging station. You would think it would learn how far it could get and start for home, but I've had it since August, cleaning 3 times a week plus spot jobs, and it doesn't seem to have gotten any better. I know it knows it is running on fumes because I've caught it a few times in the App saying it was returning home to charge, and had it not make it there. Instead it heads back in the right general direction but wanders off before getting there. If it had gone straight back (or even indirectly back), it would have had plenty of power to reach the charger, but it just doesn't dock, most of the time! I've seen it drive right past the dock, turn around, go into the next room, vacuum for while, and then let out a plaintive bleep and die. All the while the App on my phone saying it's returning to the dock to recharge. Often, when it does make it back, it will resume vacuuming before it is fully charged, and then die. If it had just waited on the charger for another 10 minutes, it would have finished the job! I think this is purely a matter of bad programming. It seems to know how much charge is left in the battery; the little battery icon in the App seems to be fairly accurate. I think the battery is okay. It is new and gives about an hour and a half of run time on a full charge. My house is as lot cleaner after 4 months of running 3 times a week. It does seem to work fairly well, except for its insanely over-optimistic notion of how much more work it can do on the remaining charge in its battery. My biggest peeve is the number of times I have to rescue it and carry it back to its base station because it ran out of battery. (The App keeps track and since Nov 4, it has run 30 times and died with a low battery 10 times and gotten stuck 6 times, so it had preventable problems more than half the time.) Update: 12/23/21. It refuses to vacuum my living room. If I set up a special job, it almost always claims it s path was blocked. But it is perfectly happy to vacuum other rooms that require going through the living room to get there! I have it programmed to vacuum the front rooms in the house twice a week, which includes the living room. Looking at the maps afterward, it shows it vacuuming all the other rooms, but only around the edge of the living room. I think there is some "memory" in it where it thinks it shouldn't be there, or thinks the living room has magically transported itself to another universe or otherwise is totally F'ed up. There appears to be no way to diagnose or reset it. I could erase it's map (basically do a factory reset), but that is a huge pain, especially since I currently have it set to avoid the Christmas tree (which is NOT in the living room, and if the keep-out zone around the tree is causing this problem, then that in itself is a serious error in its programming.) I've tried rebooting it, but that didn't help at all. Roomba's support is useless. Basically, they just read the minimally informative web page at you. It would be quicker and more effective to use a manual vacuum cleaner. Update 1/9/22: it is still refusing to vacuum my living room for no apparent reason. When told to explicitly vacuum the living room, it just skirts the edge and declares itself done in a couple of minutes without actually doing anything. When it does its regularly scheduled set of rooms including the living room, it does the sun porch (adjacent to the living room, where the base station is), traverses the living room to the front entry, then skirts the living room to vacuum the dining room, then returns through the living room to park in the sun porch. I've tried remapping my apartment to no avail. Next step is a complete factory reset, but I don't want to do that until my Christmas tree is down, because the tree causes it problems. and I'll lose my "keep out" zones. --------- July 2, 2024 - I came back here to downgrade the rating, but it is already 1 star. For the last year, it has been getting worse and worse. It constantly requires attention, always get stuck on obstacles it use to negotiate with ease, like very low thresholds and the edges of carpets and the tile area in front of my fireplace, and often gets lost trying to dock to recharge or because (on rare occasions) it has actually completed a job. Often it gets lost within inches of the docking station. The software problems are worse than ever. For instance, it will announce that the charge is low and it is returning to the docking station, but then will wander off into another room, not on the path to the docking station, and the battery will run off because it forgot to recharge. I've actually seen it announce it was returning to the docking station, then hear it in another room, check the status and see it is vacuuming again with very low charge and not having gone anywhere near the docking station. This is clearly a software bug. Sometimes it get stuck on a perfectly level surface and says it is on an uneven surface, to move it and press clean. I DON'T move it, just press clean and it resumes. Clearly, it was NOT stuck. I've cleaned it many times, replaced the brushes and filters, replaced the pivot wheel, tested the main driving wheels as per the instructions, and today, discovered and performed the docking test. It worked perfectly and then got stuck 10 minutes later. On the advice of a friend, I replaced the battery last week. It seems to last longer on a charge but doesn't perform any better otherwise. I've done many reboots and checked for software updates. None available. Yesterday afternoon, I tried to delete and create a new map. After a couple of hours exploring one room, it ran out of battery and said to move it to the dock. I did so, but by then it was getting dark and it never resumed the mapping run as it said it would. This morning, it was fully charged, and the map it produced yesterday looked bogus so I told it to start a new mapping run. It never got out of the room with the docking station, and, over an hour into it, it is stuck again on the 1/16" high lip at the edge of the fireplace hearth. I think it is trying to vacuum up the tiles, which it thinks are dirt, and despite the fact that it is not supposed to do cleaning while on a mapping run. The fireplace (and the thresholds) never used to be a problem. Getting totally lost never used to be a problem. I've replaced all the replaceable parts. The problems all have the stench of undebugged software. I suspect they might have replaced a rule-based algorithm with some sort of generative AI, or some other bone-headed move. If I can't get the mapping run (in my small, single-floor apartment with few obstacles) to work and can't discover any way to reload the original software from 4 years ago (which basically worked), I am going to trash the useless piece of junk. Is it possible to rate something ZERO stars? ---------------- I was just about to boost the rating to maybe 3 or 4 stars, when it struck again! i tried everything to make it work properly, including buying a new battery. It didn't claim the battery was at EOL, but friends who have multiple Roombas told me the problems I was having could be due to a dying battery. So I replaced it. Since i didn't know if it would help, I bought a "compatible" battery https://www.desertcart.com/dp/B09KXYNBDQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details for about half the price of an iRobot-branded replacement. The battery fit perfectly, has identical specs, charged up fine but didn't solve any of the problems I was having. Tried deleting and creating a new "smart" (i.e. idiotic) map. It kept getting stuck and never finished a mapping run. It could clean okay without a map, but kept getting stuck and could only rarely find its charging station. It would often vacuum at random for an hour or two, announce it we returning to the station for recharging, but never get there. I think this was due to the lack of a map. The vacuuming and battery life with the new battery seemed fine. But without a map, I couldn't schedule it or tell it what rooms to clean. Finally, I tried the last remaining replacement - the tires! The tires are cheap but a little tricky to replace, but I did so. The new tires have a much thicker tread than the originals and some reviewers said this was a problem but they seemed to work fine. The first thing I tried was a new mapping run. It worked perfectly! I then realized I had left a couple of doors shut, so it couldn't map two of the rooms. So I told it to vacuum the rooms on the map. (It had to go back and recharge a couple of times, which worked fine.) Then I opened the two doors and told it to map again. It found and mapped the new rooms and then I told it to vacuum them. Last week, I manually told it to vacuum, half the house on Monday and again Thursday, and the other half on Tuesday and Friday. (There were lots of "return to the base and recharge the battery" events in the course of these two weeks.) Over the weekend, I set up the schedule again. It was supposed to do 1/2 the house on Monday and Thursday and the other half on Friday. Monday evening, I noticed it had not done the scheduled Monday job, but didn't have time to look at it. Yesterday, it also didn't do its scheduled job. The App said it wasn't charged, so I wriggled it on the charger base to make sure it lit up. (Maybe I need to clean the contacts, though I did that pretty recently.) Today I had some time to look at it. The App still said it needed charging, so I made sure it was on the charger base again. The App said it couldn't contact the Roomba, so I restarted the App. (Sometimes this helps. Crappy software.) When I did so, it still said it needed charging, so I went an reseated it again and pressed the "Clean" button. This time is says "Please install an iRobot brand battery and now refuses to charge or do anything else! Back to zero stars for this incredibly annoying, incredibly time-consuming "labor saving device".

## Features

- THE SAME POWERFUL VACUUM TECHNOLOGY AS ROOMBA j7 plus VACUUM, NOW WITH A MOP. Converting our most popular Roomba j7 plus vacuum to a vacuum and mop solution with the simple switch of a bin. Spend less time worrying about your floor and more time in control of the clean you want. The innovative thinking you’ve come to expect from iRobot now gives you double the clean with one machine.​
- POWERFUL PERFORMANCE. POWERFUL PICKUP. Experience a comprehensive clean with the powerful 4-Stage Cleaning System that pulls in dirt, debris, and pet hair from wherever it hides.​
- FOCUSES ON THE DIRT. Proprietary Dirt Detect Technology allows the Roomba Combo j5 plus robot to detect dirtier areas of your home and clean them more thoroughly when the Vacuum Bin is installed.
- AUTOMATICALLY EMPTIES ITS BIN ON ITS OWN FOR UP TO 60 days. Cleans up after itself, emptying its Vacuum Bin into a convenient enclosed bag that holds up to 60 days of debris, which means two whole months of not thinking about vacuuming.
- IT DOESN’T JUST LEARN YOUR HOME; IT REACTS TO IT IN REAL TIME. With PrecisionVision Navigation and a camera, your robot identifies and avoids obstacles of all sizes like pet waste, charging cords, socks and shoes to get the whole job done.
- PET MESSES HAPPEN. P.O.O.P. (Pet Owner Official Promise)* means your Roomba Combo j5 plus robot vacuum and mop will steer clear of your pet’s waste. If it doesn’t, we'll replace your robot for free.​ *Additional terms and conditions apply – see iRobot website for full details.​
- VACUUM WHEN YOU WANT, MOP WHEN YOU WANT. Just use the added Roomba Combo Bin and your robot vacuum instantly transforms into a robot vacuum and mop leaving your hard floors shiny and dust-free. ​
- GOES WHERE YOU WANT, SKIPS WHERE YOU DON’T. Use the iRobot Home App to create No Mop Zones and when the mop bin is in use, the Roomba Combo j5 plus will avoid mopping your carpets keeping them dry.​
- NEAT ROWS FOR A MORE THOROUGH CLEAN. Advanced navigation and 2 cleaning passes allows Roomba Combo robot to navigate your home in neat, efficient rows for a wall-to wall clean without missing a spot. With overlapping passes, your robot purposefully and logically cleans in parallel lines across multiple floor types.​
- A MOP DESIGNED FOR PERFORMANCE. Just fill the Roomba Combo Bin with water or a compatible cleaning solution* and the specialized microfiber pad tackles footprints, dirt, and dust. *See iRobot website for list of compatible cleaning solutions.​

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B0C4151YK5 |
| Batteries are Included | Yes |
| Battery Life | 180 minutes |
| Battery Type | Lithium Ion |
| Best Sellers Rank | #139,965 in Home & Kitchen ( See Top 100 in Home & Kitchen ) #139 in Robotic Vacuums |
| Brand | iRobot |
| Brand Name | iRobot |
| Capacity | 500 Milliliters |
| Color | Graphite |
| Compatible Devices | Amazon Echo |
| Control Method | App, Voice |
| Controller Type | Amazon Alexa, Siri, Voice Control, iRobot Home App |
| Customer Reviews | 3.6 out of 5 stars 6,181 Reviews |
| Filter Type | Cartridge |
| Form Factor | Robotic |
| Global Trade Identification Number | 00885155040664 |
| Included Components | 1 Clean Base Automatic Dirt Disposal, 1 Mopping Pad, 1 Roomba Combo Bin, 1 Roomba j Robot Vacuum, Dirt Disposal Bag, Filter, Side Brush |
| Indoor Outdoor Usage | Indoor |
| Item Dimensions L x W x H | 3.4"L x 13.3"W x 13.3"H |
| Item Type Name | Robotic Vacuum |
| Item Weight | 3.5 Kilograms |
| Manufacturer | iRobot |
| Model Name | Roomba Combo j5+ |
| Model Number | j557020 |
| Number of Items | 1 |
| Number of Power Levels | 1 |
| Other Special Features of the Product | Clean by Room, Obstacle Avoidance, Self-Emptying, Smart Mapping, Vacuum & Mop |
| Portable | Yes |
| Power Source | ac |
| Product Dimensions | 3.4"L x 13.3"W x 13.3"H |
| Recommended Uses For Product | Regular, automated cleaning of large areas in homes with hard floors and carpets, compatible with voice control and smart home devices |
| Special Feature | Clean by Room, Obstacle Avoidance, Self-Emptying, Smart Mapping, Vacuum & Mop |
| Style Name | 60-day Wet Dry |
| Surface Recommendation | Hard Floor, Carpet |
| UPC | 885155040664 |
| Unit Count | 1 Count |
| Voltage | 240 Volts |

## Product Details

- **Brand:** iRobot
- **Color:** Graphite
- **Model Name:** Roomba Combo j5+
- **Special Feature:** Clean by Room, Obstacle Avoidance, Self-Emptying, Smart Mapping, Vacuum & Mop
- **Surface Recommendation:** Hard Floor, Carpet

## Images

![Roomba Combo j5+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum & Mop – Identifies and Avoids Obstacles Like Pet Waste & Cords, Empties Itself for 60 Days, Clean by Room with Smart Mapping, Works with Alexa​ - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71tJE3LRWjL.jpg)

## Available Options

This product comes in different **Style** options.

## Questions & Answers

**Q: What is the battery model of this J5？**
A: The Roomba Combo™ j5+ Robot Vacuum and Mop comes with a 2210mAh Lithium Ion battery.

**Q: Can you reprogram if you move?**
A: Roomba Combo™ j5+ Robot Vacuum and Mop is a Smart Map™ enabled robot, meaning it can store 10 different Imprint™ Smart Maps in its memory. 
You always have the option to delete an existing map within the iRobot HOME app. Then you can create an entirely new map in a new location by:
 - Select the Map icon on the home screen
 - Choose “+ Create a new Smart Map” 
 - Start mapping run

**Q: Does it work on carpets?**
A: The Roomba Combo™ j5/j5+ robot instantly switches from vacuum to vacuum and mop mode when you install the Roomba Combo™ bin. To keep Roomba Combo™ j5/j5+ robot from mopping carpets and rugs, set up No Mop Zones in the iRobot Home App —or use your voice assistant** or iRobot Home App to only clean rooms without rugs or carpets. Note: When the Roomba Combo Bin™ is being used, the Roomba j5/+ will always vacuum and mop simultaneously. If you wish to just vacuum for all floor types remove the Roomba Combo Bin™ and install the dry bin for vacuuming only.

## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Impressive Cleaning Power and Reliable Performance Worth Every Penny!
*by D***R on May 27, 2025*

I purchased the iRobot Roomba i5 during a discount deal, and I absolutely don’t regret it. After using it for about a year, I can confidently say it’s one of the best small home investments I’ve made. The vacuum quality is excellent it picks up dust, debris, and especially pet hair with no problem, even in corners and under furniture. I have two dogs, and thanks to this vacuum, there’s not a single hair left anywhere. It’s been a total game-changer for keeping the apartment clean. I don’t use the mopping function much; I mainly rely on it for vacuuming, and the results speak for themselves. You can clearly see and feel the difference between a cleaned floor and a dirty one. In terms of durability, it’s held up great after a year of use. No issues with the wheels, brushes, or sensors. It covers my one-bedroom apartment thoroughly, typically running for around 45 minutes, sometimes a bit longer if there are obstacles that confuse it during its mapping process. The functionality is solid. It maps the apartment effectively and adapts over time. The app is very simple and intuitive, giving you all the basic information and control you need without being overly complicated. Noise level is reasonable not silent, but quiet enough to run while your home without being annoying. The sensitivity of the sensors is generally good, though sometimes it struggles with new obstacles or small cords, but nothing major. Overall, if you're looking for a reliable, efficient, and easy-to-use vacuum especially if you have pets the Roomba i5 is highly recommended. Great performance, solid build, and very convenient for small apartments or homes.

### ⭐ If this thing was a tiny bit smarter, it would be much better!
*by J***S on December 15, 2020*

My biggest issue with the Roomba is that it usually dies from the battery going dead before it makes it back to the charging station. You would think it would learn how far it could get and start for home, but I've had it since August, cleaning 3 times a week plus spot jobs, and it doesn't seem to have gotten any better. I know it knows it is running on fumes because I've caught it a few times in the App saying it was returning home to charge, and had it not make it there. Instead it heads back in the right general direction but wanders off before getting there. If it had gone straight back (or even indirectly back), it would have had plenty of power to reach the charger, but it just doesn't dock, most of the time! I've seen it drive right past the dock, turn around, go into the next room, vacuum for while, and then let out a plaintive bleep and die. All the while the App on my phone saying it's returning to the dock to recharge. Often, when it does make it back, it will resume vacuuming before it is fully charged, and then die. If it had just waited on the charger for another 10 minutes, it would have finished the job! I think this is purely a matter of bad programming. It seems to know how much charge is left in the battery; the little battery icon in the App seems to be fairly accurate. I think the battery is okay. It is new and gives about an hour and a half of run time on a full charge. My house is as lot cleaner after 4 months of running 3 times a week. It does seem to work fairly well, except for its insanely over-optimistic notion of how much more work it can do on the remaining charge in its battery. My biggest peeve is the number of times I have to rescue it and carry it back to its base station because it ran out of battery. (The App keeps track and since Nov 4, it has run 30 times and died with a low battery 10 times and gotten stuck 6 times, so it had preventable problems more than half the time.) Update: 12/23/21. It refuses to vacuum my living room. If I set up a special job, it almost always claims it s path was blocked. But it is perfectly happy to vacuum other rooms that require going through the living room to get there! I have it programmed to vacuum the front rooms in the house twice a week, which includes the living room. Looking at the maps afterward, it shows it vacuuming all the other rooms, but only around the edge of the living room. I think there is some "memory" in it where it thinks it shouldn't be there, or thinks the living room has magically transported itself to another universe or otherwise is totally F'ed up. There appears to be no way to diagnose or reset it. I could erase it's map (basically do a factory reset), but that is a huge pain, especially since I currently have it set to avoid the Christmas tree (which is NOT in the living room, and if the keep-out zone around the tree is causing this problem, then that in itself is a serious error in its programming.) I've tried rebooting it, but that didn't help at all. Roomba's support is useless. Basically, they just read the minimally informative web page at you. It would be quicker and more effective to use a manual vacuum cleaner. Update 1/9/22: it is still refusing to vacuum my living room for no apparent reason. When told to explicitly vacuum the living room, it just skirts the edge and declares itself done in a couple of minutes without actually doing anything. When it does its regularly scheduled set of rooms including the living room, it does the sun porch (adjacent to the living room, where the base station is), traverses the living room to the front entry, then skirts the living room to vacuum the dining room, then returns through the living room to park in the sun porch. I've tried remapping my apartment to no avail. Next step is a complete factory reset, but I don't want to do that until my Christmas tree is down, because the tree causes it problems. and I'll lose my "keep out" zones. --------- July 2, 2024 - I came back here to downgrade the rating, but it is already 1 star. For the last year, it has been getting worse and worse. It constantly requires attention, always get stuck on obstacles it use to negotiate with ease, like very low thresholds and the edges of carpets and the tile area in front of my fireplace, and often gets lost trying to dock to recharge or because (on rare occasions) it has actually completed a job. Often it gets lost within inches of the docking station. The software problems are worse than ever. For instance, it will announce that the charge is low and it is returning to the docking station, but then will wander off into another room, not on the path to the docking station, and the battery will run off because it forgot to recharge. I've actually seen it announce it was returning to the docking station, then hear it in another room, check the status and see it is vacuuming again with very low charge and not having gone anywhere near the docking station. This is clearly a software bug. Sometimes it get stuck on a perfectly level surface and says it is on an uneven surface, to move it and press clean. I DON'T move it, just press clean and it resumes. Clearly, it was NOT stuck. I've cleaned it many times, replaced the brushes and filters, replaced the pivot wheel, tested the main driving wheels as per the instructions, and today, discovered and performed the docking test. It worked perfectly and then got stuck 10 minutes later. On the advice of a friend, I replaced the battery last week. It seems to last longer on a charge but doesn't perform any better otherwise. I've done many reboots and checked for software updates. None available. Yesterday afternoon, I tried to delete and create a new map. After a couple of hours exploring one room, it ran out of battery and said to move it to the dock. I did so, but by then it was getting dark and it never resumed the mapping run as it said it would. This morning, it was fully charged, and the map it produced yesterday looked bogus so I told it to start a new mapping run. It never got out of the room with the docking station, and, over an hour into it, it is stuck again on the 1/16" high lip at the edge of the fireplace hearth. I think it is trying to vacuum up the tiles, which it thinks are dirt, and despite the fact that it is not supposed to do cleaning while on a mapping run. The fireplace (and the thresholds) never used to be a problem. Getting totally lost never used to be a problem. I've replaced all the replaceable parts. The problems all have the stench of undebugged software. I suspect they might have replaced a rule-based algorithm with some sort of generative AI, or some other bone-headed move. If I can't get the mapping run (in my small, single-floor apartment with few obstacles) to work and can't discover any way to reload the original software from 4 years ago (which basically worked), I am going to trash the useless piece of junk. Is it possible to rate something ZERO stars? ---------------- I was just about to boost the rating to maybe 3 or 4 stars, when it struck again! i tried everything to make it work properly, including buying a new battery. It didn't claim the battery was at EOL, but friends who have multiple Roombas told me the problems I was having could be due to a dying battery. So I replaced it. Since i didn't know if it would help, I bought a "compatible" battery https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09KXYNBDQ?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details for about half the price of an iRobot-branded replacement. The battery fit perfectly, has identical specs, charged up fine but didn't solve any of the problems I was having. Tried deleting and creating a new "smart" (i.e. idiotic) map. It kept getting stuck and never finished a mapping run. It could clean okay without a map, but kept getting stuck and could only rarely find its charging station. It would often vacuum at random for an hour or two, announce it we returning to the station for recharging, but never get there. I think this was due to the lack of a map. The vacuuming and battery life with the new battery seemed fine. But without a map, I couldn't schedule it or tell it what rooms to clean. Finally, I tried the last remaining replacement - the tires! The tires are cheap but a little tricky to replace, but I did so. The new tires have a much thicker tread than the originals and some reviewers said this was a problem but they seemed to work fine. The first thing I tried was a new mapping run. It worked perfectly! I then realized I had left a couple of doors shut, so it couldn't map two of the rooms. So I told it to vacuum the rooms on the map. (It had to go back and recharge a couple of times, which worked fine.) Then I opened the two doors and told it to map again. It found and mapped the new rooms and then I told it to vacuum them. Last week, I manually told it to vacuum, half the house on Monday and again Thursday, and the other half on Tuesday and Friday. (There were lots of "return to the base and recharge the battery" events in the course of these two weeks.) Over the weekend, I set up the schedule again. It was supposed to do 1/2 the house on Monday and Thursday and the other half on Friday. Monday evening, I noticed it had not done the scheduled Monday job, but didn't have time to look at it. Yesterday, it also didn't do its scheduled job. The App said it wasn't charged, so I wriggled it on the charger base to make sure it lit up. (Maybe I need to clean the contacts, though I did that pretty recently.) Today I had some time to look at it. The App still said it needed charging, so I made sure it was on the charger base again. The App said it couldn't contact the Roomba, so I restarted the App. (Sometimes this helps. Crappy software.) When I did so, it still said it needed charging, so I went an reseated it again and pressed the "Clean" button. This time is says "Please install an iRobot brand battery and now refuses to charge or do anything else! Back to zero stars for this incredibly annoying, incredibly time-consuming "labor saving device".

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Works wonderful on luxury vinyl floors and Ruggables!
*by V***T on November 13, 2023*

I love this Roomba. I had an older model that you had to empty. I still have it and use it in my barn office. This one is awesome! I can have it clean all the floors in the morning while I'm having my coffee. I have 4 small dogs and 3 cats living inside and it does better than I can do with my Swiffer or my Shark. I don't think I would use it for carpeting. I use my Shark for the carpeted downstairs. Gone are the giant dust bunnies (I call them indoor tumbleweeds). I also love that it empties itself at it's docking station. The machine is pretty quiet compared to my older model. I will warn that when it empties it is very loud for 4 or 5 seconds. My main floor is almost 1800 ft. of cleaning area. It can clean most of it on one charge. I also like its internal mapping. You can specify rooms so you can clean only the rooms you want. The initial mapping takes a few hours but I only had to do that once. After that, it can find new areas when cleaning and let you know. You can also adjust the boundaries and change the room names. You set up quick links in the program. The only problem I am having is setting it up with my Alexa Echo. It is paired and you can see it in the Alexa app but I cannot get Alexa to respond to a clean command.

## Frequently Bought Together

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