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I love my Roombas. A better job then manual sweeping and they get under the bed. Can't say how they work on carpet, but for wood flooring, they are most excell

• Moru 8y ago
  Has there been any studies on how good the robot hovers realy are for capturing smaller particles? Does it have enough power to use a HEPA filter? Or does it just blow the dust out the backside like old hovers?
  • Tade0 8y ago
    Anecdata: I'm allergic to pollen and cats(a little bit). This spring I got myself a Roomba 895 which is equipped with a HEPA filter and hadn't experienced any symptoms since. I have no real data on its effectiveness aside from "works for me", though.
• woolvalley 8y ago
  I had a roomba, but the combination of constant brush maintenance, hair cutting and emptying made it a pain in the ass. Not to mention how it totally ate wires on the floor. The time it saved was taken up by different things. And it did a relatively bad job compared to a human A dyson handheld does a better job cleaning under your bed, and you can clean the couches fairly easily with it. Your $1000 is better spent on a miele canister and a dyson v7.
  • aedron 8y ago
    They make sense within a pretty narrow use case: You have a largish room with hard floor, which is usually kept uncluttered. You don't have pets. We use it for a large kitchen and it's okay. Run it before leaving the house and the floor is clean when you get back. Who cares how long it takes or that it is noisy or whatever. It does like 75% as good as a human would and that's good enough most of the time. But it's true that a part of the time you save is spent on maintenance instead.
    • schiffern 8y ago
      >part of the time you save is spent on maintenance instead. There's a quote I always remember while taking 30 seconds to clean the dishwasher: "The world of A.D. 2014 will have few routine jobs that cannot be done better by some machine than by any human being. Mankind will therefore have become largely a race of machine tenders." -- Isaac Asimov, 1964