The biggest problem I have with iRobot is that all of the newer models require an internet connection. I understand that some features like remote starting and

The biggest problem I have with iRobot is that all of the newer models require an internet connection. I understand that some features like remote starting and notifications must depend on an internet connection but in the newer models almost everything depends on that connection, including scheduling. This means that if you don't want to connect your vacuum to the internet you are back to starting it manually whenever you want a clean. Personally I don't want a robot that depends on WiFi mostly because I don't trust that their backend services will keep running for years as they release 8 newer models and want to clean up their codebase. Security is another issue but since their vacuums don't have cameras putting it on an untrused network mostly solves that problem.