QVC New Customers: iRobot Roomba s9+ Self-Empty Robot Vacuum w/ PerfectEdge Technology $469.98 + Free S&H (10/21 Only)

The best vacuum for carpet and nothing comes closes due to dual rollers that are nearly 1.5x the length of all other robovacs. I have this and a Roborock S7 MaxV and the roborock is superior in everything from mapping to mopping but this has it beat easily on carpet. Highly recommend if you have majority carpet.

The best vacuum for carpet and nothing comes closes due to dual rollers that are nearly 1.5x the length of all other robovacs. I have this and a Roborock S7 MaxV and the roborock is superior in everything from mapping to mopping but this has it beat easily on carpet. Highly recommend if you have majority carpet.

I just checked and Roborock S8 Pro does use dual brushes and has 6000PA suction. It's also a whopping $1600. If you don't need mopping, like for example in my house on second floor it's all carpet, then this Roomba S9+ seems like a no brainer at only fraction of the cost.

I just checked and Roborock S8 Pro does use dual brushes and has 6000PA suction. It's also a whopping $1600. If you don't need mopping, like for example in my house on second floor it's all carpet, then this Roomba S9+ seems like a no brainer at only fraction of the cost.

You seem to know a lot about these vacuum robots - what's the best one for all hardwood floors, preferably including mopping.

How much money are you willing to spend and what features are important for you? You don't need top of the line robot vac to clean hard wood floors, they basically just need to barely sweep it and it will be clean. It's not like carpet where you need insane suction and sweeping action to suck the dust out. I have a Q Revo downstairs where we have all hardwood floors and I'm very happy with it. It can offer very strong suction for carpet, but I run it at lowest setting called silent where it barely sucks because it's already good enough to pick up crumbs and stuff off the floor. I saw no difference between any of the performance modes on hardwood. On hardwood, the lowest setting cleaned just as well as the most powerful hardest sucking setting, so there was no reason to create a ton of noise in the house and drain the battery in the robot. So if you just want a bare minimum robot vac that can clean your hardwood floor and you don't care about features, then any cheap $300 vacuum will do. Cleaning hardwoods is like the easiest thing to do.

Features that were important for me were:
1. I wanted to have as minimal of a maintenance as possible. With regular robots, they have a tiny bin, you have to always take it out of a robot and dump it. It was important for me that robot came with a base and would dump garbage automatically in the vacuum bag in the base. It's been 4 months now and I still haven't replaced the vacuum bag.
2. I wanted it to have a mop. Another thing with mops is just like with garbage, maintenance. You have to constantly refill their tiny reservoir when mopping, which leads me to feature #3.
3. I wanted a self refilling mop. So my Q Revo station has a space for vacuum bag, a tank for clean washing water, and a tank for dirty water from when robot washes the mop. As long as there's water in the clean tank it can top off its internal tank by itself and I don't have to ever touch it. My only maintenance so far is every 2 times I use a mop feature, I have to take out clean water tank and refill it with cleaning solution, and I have to take out dirty water tank and empty it and rinse it from all the sediment on the bottom. Takes a few minutes. Then every maybe 5 months I have to replace vacuum bag in station.

I did not want a camera robot for security reasons. Camera robots got really good at obstacle avoidance due to years of ai training they had. They can identify tiny things on floor like charging usb-c cables or dog poop and go around them. You can also remotely drive them around through app like a mobile camera when you're away and check up on things. But so can people that manage to hack into them. There's been a famous scandal with I believe Roombas where a woman on a toilet got filmed by a robot vac while it was vacuuming and then that footage was leaked by someone at the company to social media.

So another option is a robot that uses Structured Light sensor to spot small things on the floor. And mind you this is just for small debree, anything taller than robot will get spotted by a LiDAR Scanner on top of robot, but we're talking about tiny things 2 inches and smaller that are going to mess your vac up, like dog poop or charging cables. Structured light is fairly new and not as advanced or as good as camera and most high end robots also include laser scanners on each side of the sensor to help with spotting debree.

4. I wanted a good obstacle/debree avoidance if possible, but didn't want to go with camera solution. So if bad obstacle avoidance, this was not a deal breaker for me.

At the time when I was shopping for my vac, that narrowed it down to Roborock Q Revo and Roborock S8 PRO. Q Revo is a midrange model at $900 where as S8 PRO is $1600. S8 PRO has it all, even though it has Structured light sensor, it also has additional lasers to help it identify things, but I just couldn't stomach the price. So I went with Q Revo which at the time I bought for $700 on sale and I've been pretty happy with it. Because Q Revo lacks additional sensors for obstacles, it's obstacle avoidance is dog shit, it gives me more problems than it's worth, so I disabled it altogether in the app. When I initiate my cleaning cycle I quickly run through the house and pick up debris like legos and other junk on the floor. Sometimes I miss something and I start hearing a grinding noise from vac so I pause it and flip it over and sure enough it sucked some small piece of junk in the roller or wheel. Not a deal breaker for me, but would've been nice to have good obstacle avoidance, but I wasn't prepared to pay double for it.

Since then, more great vacuum robots with structured light hit market and now there's an option in $1k range with features I'm looking for like Ecovacs T20 Omni. Like I said, your needs and what's important for you maybe different from what's important for me. I'm happy with Q Revo but floor does take a bit of "prep" when I run it because of basically no obstacle avoidance.

Have you heard of Vacuum Wars? He has a channel on YouTube where he reviews and rates vacuums and also has a web site. This is the resource I used extensively when researching which vacuum is best for my needs and budget.

https://www.youtube.com/@VacuumWars
https://www.vacuumwars.com/vacuum...t-vacuums/

Do you recommend this? I have tile at home and seems its on sale any feedback appreciated

Lot of bad reviews complaining it can wear out its parts(wheels, rollers, side brush etc.) pretty quickly, I don't know if is a new way to make users pay more because my old 980 seems to last forever(slightly battery degrade and I got cheap side brushes from third party every half a year).

Should be more than enough if all you want is to vacuum tile.