5 star with better battery – iRobot Home Review

There’s great things about the iRobot 7. I love that it empties itself and it’s very easy to maintain. Plus being able to schedule regular cleaning is awesome. I’ve used another botvac on the bedroom level of my home for 6 years, called a Neato. In comparison, the Neato cleans far better in much less time, and the best feature on the Neato app is the ability to easily draw “no go” lines on the floor plan. The Roomba app is much more cumbersome to create boxed areas rather than simple lines, and it’s harder to delete or change those areas where you don’t want them any longer. My Roomba has frequent times of getting stuck that requires drawing an area on the floor plan to prevent the bot from going there. The biggest negative is the lack of suction. It’s just unable to do a very thorough cleaning on the daily single pass setting. It takes the Roomba about an hour to do ~400 sf on the quick cleaning mode. My Neato does nearly 800 sf in the same amount of time. More power would make the Roomba perfect!
Review by Bridgebldr4Him on iRobot Home.