Robotic, battery-powered floor vacuum and remote scheduling device. Review from Amazon.com:
We were amazed at how simple everything was. You take it out of the box and let it charge until the light turns green. Then you walk it into the middle of the room and press the button ‘CLEAN’ from there, the Roomba starts its pattern cleaning. In about 45 minutes the entire room was clean. The roomba was also much quieter than we expected, being that its a vacuum we thought it must have been much louder.
My wife has already named our Roomba ‘ Rosie ‘, she informed me that she will never be without Rosie. I get the hint that if it breaks one day, we will have to order another one immediately.
In our room configuration I was almost sure it was going to get stuck under one of the chair legs, or completely miss a narrow pathway behind our bar, another narrow pathway behind our coffee table. Boy was I wrong, the roomba literally covered every inch of the room. It also got underneath a hutch that may have gone years without being touched. It seemed to spend some extra time under there and got out all the dust.
What we couldn’t believe was how deeply it cleaned. Our area Persian dark rugs, show every piece of lint. In one occasion the Roomba’s blue light came on indicating it found an especially dirty area and spent an extra few minutes on it.
All in all I think we will wind up buying 2 more and keep one Roomba on each level. We haven’t toyed with the scheduler yet and we might not. I mean how lazy can we be, all you have to do is press one button and it cleans the entire room! The coolest thing about it, is that when its done, it goes around and finds the charger so you cannot even forget to charge it!
Clearly the Roomba is one of the greatest inventions of our time and will change the way we clean our house permanently. All I can say is that we are very happy with it and think it is an excellent buy.
