iRobot Home 4+

I suffer with severe chronic fatigue syndrome so housekeeping is almost impossible for me. In the past I relied on cleaners to help me. This was ok but with pets, my house was only clean for one day a week when the cleaner came. Plus the cleaner struggled to vacuum under furniture. Now with my iRobot vacuum and separate mop my house is clean every day! At the start I went to some effort to tie up cords and elevate some furniture on castors, and I put chairs up on the table for cleaning, so now the robots rarely get stuck and the job is quicker. I’ve learned how to select clean zones which is great for under my bird cages and where the dogs sleep so I can clean these spots as often as required. I have a lightweight stick vacuum which I use about once a month to get the spots the iRobot can’t reach eg behind doors. The iRobots are really easy to maintain too, and even with all the pet hair, I only change the collection bag about once a month which is very impressive. All in all I’m thrilled with my iRobot army!!

I love my Brava Jet M6.
Purchased this with my iRobot vacuum S9.
Mapping Brava Jet was easy except for getting it to map my laundry which has a 5mm threshold to the hallway and laundry. The added hiccup was the fact that the laundry was its home base.
This was an issue because if you don’t have a large enough area mapped you’re unable to place dividers (doorways) or set a threshold for the mop to go over. (Will go over up to 6mm)
After checking online for some trouble shooting and taking 15 mins to be with the mop to help it in and out of the laundry, with some gentle kicking as encouragement over the threshold it finally mapped the room.
Once you’ve mapped then you can set thresholds so it will go over raised doorways or carpet to get to its next room.
Once I had that all set up the Brava Jet M6 has been a dream.
I have set my schedules so the vacuum and mop work seamlessly together.
I have bamboo floors and tiled wet areas and my floors have never looked better.
The mop is quiet so it’s not a distraction.
The iRobot vacuum is a little noisey but not enough to be annoying!
It is a bit pricey and if you’ve got the money I would highly recommend these products. The time and stress it has saved is priceless.
I highly recommend this product and money well spent!

Cleans very well despite having two heavy shedding in-door dogs over carpet (German Shepard’s) but… Algorithms are not perfect with confusion at times about not being able to park correctly on the base and mixing up rooms. At times quite rough with furniture despite regular cleaning of sensors. No ability to set a map of the house in stone. It dynamically changes room layouts and boundaries. Connects rooms together in areas where there is no connection, then tries to use this as the way into that room and fails to clean that room. A manual change to the map can cause a cascading consequence to the rest of the layout. Programmatically there are many things that can be improved. My son’s home-built Raspberry Pi robot has better and more reliable navigation and mapping ability of our house, all developed with the help of the open source community and for under $200. With the exception of cleaning, there are better robot vacuum cleaners out there for half the cost which Friends of mine have. I expect better from an expensive robot.