When my 360 S5 lost it's mind I resorted to my old upright for a while but really missed a robot cleaner. The 360 was a quality vacuum but after a couple years decided it would only work in the kitchen, in every other room it acted like it was terrified and would not clean but a small area. Now to the iRobot i3. First I purchased it used as the price was really attractive. When it arrived it was in perfect condidion and had obviously never been used. It was unblemished and clean and included everything except it's original packaging. The software was easy to set up and tho I did have to run the mapping feature twice it mapped my small apartment quickly and accurately. Setting up the layout of rooms was easy and a nice feature (I don't always want to clean the whole apartment). Suction is OK (the 360 S5 had much stronger suction). I don't have pets so I'm not sure how well it picks up various kinds of hair. The spot clean feature is nice, with my old vac you set up a spot via the software with the iRobot you just put it where you want to clean a press the button on the robot. The dust bin is a bit on the small side but adiquate for my needs. The software is fairly easy to use and has some nice features (keeping track of the health of bushes and filters and a setting to prevent the robot from cleaning when the bin is full are nice). iRobot branded replacement filters are a bit expensive compared to off brand but might be worth it for me as I may only need one every 3 months or so. Overall if I'd paid full price I'd still be happy with the i3. That I paid considerably less for a used (though as I said above truly like new) robot I'm realy very happy.

Connecting the vacuum to WiFi was seamless. Download app and followed instructions. Map accuracy of the house was excellent. Easy to setup vacuum jobs in the app. We schedule the vacuum at night after we go to bed by using the app. The unit is very quiet. You can schedule the whole house or any room you want to vacuum on any day of the week and what time to start. Very good sensitivity in detecting objects around the house. Very well built and easy to clean.

This is my 3rd Roomba. I had one of the very first generation Roombas, a 610 that I used for a long time, and now this one. Overall, Roombas are great for what they are if you have realistic expectations. This one brings some great new additions. Firstly, the room mapping feature is pretty good. It means you no longer need to confine your Roomba to a single room like you used to have to do. You send your Roomba on a mapping run, let it finish, then name the rooms it finds. It did a pretty good job in my house the first time. My house is a rambler that was built in the 60s and added on in the 80s. There are doors everywhere, so I thought it would struggle with that - but it didn't. Once you have all of those rooms named, you can open the app and send it to clean any of them one at a time if you'd like. You can also set up a group where you decide which rooms it will clean in which order. It goes and does it, and returns to its base. Easy Peasy. I'm a Google user, so I LOVE the fact that I can just say "Hey Google, vacuum the living room" and it runs off and does it. It probably does the same with Alexa. Secondly, the fact that it can actually find its charger base is a godsend. My old 610 would try to go back to the base, but never actually find it, so I was constantly playing "where's the Roomba?". It's funny at first, but get's annoying really quickly. Third, they changed the brushes. The older style had a brush. The newer Roombas have these rubber sweepers that don't get clogged nearly as much as the old ones did. They also seem to find more dirt. Gotcha #1: The collection bin is much smaller than the older versions. If you don't buy the auto-empty base (like me), and you have a dog (like me), you'll find that it struggles to do more than one or two rooms without aborting because the bin is full. I suppose this is a planned "bug" to get you to buy the auto-empty base thing. It's not the end of the world, but so far for me, I haven't been able to allow it to clean more than 3 rooms at a time. Then I have to empty and clean the bin. The good news here is that you get a notification that the Roomba couldn't finish the job you gave it. Once you clean out the bin and put it back on the charger, it goes back and finished up. Gotcha #2: the filters. There is one permanent filter on here, and it seems to get clogged very easily. It's not tough to clean it, but you have to wash it with water and let it dry. That means you have to wait a while between when you clean that filter and when you're able to use your Roomba again. There is also one non-permanent filter. It's very small and also easily clogged. I know they expect you to change these filters a lot, but I'm not going to pay for filters over and over again, so I'll always try to clean them as much as possible first. The way this one is made is different from the old style, so it's much harder to cleanout. Again, not the end of the world, but be aware that you're probably going to want some replacement filters at some point, and you never know how much that will cost you later. Gotcha #3: they never changed the charging base since the last version. It's far too light, and the pads that are supposed to be able to magically hold the base in place when the Roomba tries to dock are insufficient for the job. Several times, I've found my Roomba trying to dock, but it pushed the dock sideways and couldn't do it. *update* I've used this almost every day since I got it, and it seems to have figured it out - or at least I haven't had that problem since. Gotcha #4: Floor rugs. For some reason, this new Roomba seems to struggle with my floor rugs much more than my old 610. I'm not entirely sure why, but it has a tendency to flip them up. So far, it hasn't caused much of an issue because it eventually figures it out, but my old Roomba had no problem with any of the area rugs in my house. *update* I replaced some of the older worn-out rugs in my house. Problem solved. Overall, I'd say this was worth an upgrade from my older 610 just for the room mapping feature. I hated moving those little lighthouse things around, and now I don't have to.

The robot vaccum itself is great! It connecta to you wifi and than you can control it at home or when you are out of the house. The mapping is great, it takes 2-3 days than the vaccum knows where to go. It is also very powerful. I had sone robot before but the suction was bad and the floor was still dirty after two hours of cleaning. The price is great! I purchased a used one and I think it was defective already because it worked for 2 weeks only and I had to return it but I am pretty sure the issue was with the unit I got and not the product itself. Looking to buy one again on black friday or bozing day but a new one this time!

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Pros: - Cleans almost everywhere and moves in straight rows. - Slows down before hitting a wall or obstacle, most of the times. - Almost never get stuck. Doesn't need my intervention. Happened once since I've got it. (a month and a half) - Works well with Google Assistant. - Deep cleans carpets and rugs. *Perhaps too much. - App is simple enough and works well for what I need (schedules). - I'll be honest: I've owned the i3 for a month and a half now and I haven't used my "real" vacuum since. My floor are always clean now. I'm lazy and happy. Cons: - *Will be too rough on wool or other delicate fabric carpets/rugs - Hair (long) rolls in around front wheel and rubber brushes bearings. I clean it every other day. (very easy to do) - The Edge-Sweeping Brush with scatter some debris around since it's going very fast but chances are the i3 will pick them up after so it's not a big con. Note: -I suggest keeping a cluster-free floor as this thing will eat everything small enough in its way. It has very good suction! In my case, it ate a small cat toy, once. Just remove all small stuff from your floor and let the i3 do its thing. If that's too much work for you, go for the new Roomba J7. -If you want to be able to clean specifics room and not your entire floor each time, go for the Roomba i7. EDIT: This is not true anymore as the i3 have the mapping feature now and can clean one room at the time if needed. Also, it is possible to create schedules using your rooms in the app.

Little noisy but major upgrade from our last pet series. The mapping feature works flawlessly and with the new app support this device is perfect for a house.

Having had a Roomba 980 for about 7 years now, I was quite pleased with how quiet the i5 is. The 980 seems louder than it used to be, but the i5 is quiet enough that running downstairs it doesn't wake me up. The mapping function works quite well, and being able to program specific rooms is a blessing. There are still places in the house where either model can get stuck, so separating the jobs into specific rooms helps overall. Separating also let's me keep it out of rooms that are being used at specific times of the day - like the kitchen when making breakfast. Getting stuck is one of those things that must be lived with. A sofa that's just the right height is a trap for Roomba. On one of the main floor sofas I built a wooden frame to go around the legs which prevents it from getting trapped. The i5, unlike the 980, frequently gets stuck on some vintage air vents (about 30cm square) on the main floor. Unfortunately, and also unlike the 980, the robot cannot recover from this. It tells me to move it and press start, but it doesn't continue. This is probably the worst feature of the unit, and I hope iRobot updates the software at some point to fix it. I've taken to putting a large book on the vent and will build something better when I have time. The robot also reboots from time to time, stopping the job. It's infrequent but annoying. On the positive side, it runs to completion far more often than the 980 does and finds it way home reliably. At 1/3rd the price of the 980 I'm quite happy. A couple of small puck shaped bollards would do the trick. I've tried the mopping function on our wood floor in the kitchen and it does a reasonable job. As a vacuum it can do better than vacuuming by hand, but as a mop it is inferior to hand mopping, but it is good enough to make hand mopping be needed less frequently, which is good. It cleans well and doesn't bump the furniture legs as hard as the 980, so I'm very pleased with it overall. The 980 is now relegated to the easier and cleaner upstairs duties.