I received the following product from Best Buy below for review but all thoughts and opinions are my own.
Back in when I was a child I used to watch The Jetsons and I loved the robot Rosie. When I was a kid I thought that by the time I was an adult I would be rich and there would be robots that you could buy just like Rosie. Well Rosie doesn’t exist but Roomba does, she is my new iRobot that has been doing an extremely well job cleaning my tile floors.
I couldn’t wait to receive my iRobot® Roomba® 870 to try on my floors. I have a small house, with 4 children, two pets that shed and tile throughout the house. I never knew how much dust a house actually collected until I installed tile. To keep the floors clean, you really have to sleep at least a couple times a day.
Now I let my Roomba take care of cleaning the floors during the day while I keep my feet up and work away.
The iRobot Roomba 870 cleans the floors like a pro. It uses the revolutionary AeroForce™ Performance Cleaning System that provides 5X the suction power and removes up to 50% more dirt, hair, dust and debris.
This vacuum is easy to setup. It comes ready to start cleaning your floors, you just got to remove the yellow tags and then set clock with the current date and time. After setting the clock you can then schedule the iRobot to clean your floors. It allows you to schedule Roomba to clean once a day up to seven times per week.
Roomba’s slim design allows it to maneuver and clean under your furniture, including beds, skirted furniture, tables and cabinetry while the spinning side brush grabs dirt and debris from tough places like wall edges and corners. My couches are tall enough for Roomba to get under which makes cleaning under the couches a cinch now!
I was pretty amazed when I opened the bin for the first time and seen all this pet hair that it found on the ground and under the couches. I have a cat and a dog that seems to be SHEDDING right now. Roomba is going to help each day to pick up that unwanted pet hair on the floor.
What makes the iRobot Roomba 870 special is that it cleans the floors differently than most people do. It uses it’s robot intelligence to calculate the optimal cleaning path and determines when to use its various cleaning behaviors. The Roomba uses a Spiraling motion to clean concentrated areas, Wall Following to clean the full perimeter of the room and navigate around furniture and obstacles and Room Crossing in which it crisscrosses the room to ensure it gets the room clean.
I love that the vacuum remembers the path and remembers when it bumps into things so that the next time around it will try to avoid it. What I also love is that Roomba puts itself away on the Home Base® once it is done cleaning to recharge between cleanings.
This vacuum uses a large HEPA filter that keeps to keep dust, dander, and other allergens out of the air and is ideal for those with that have homes with pets and/or allergies.
What I like about the iRobot Roomba870 is that it has NO cleaning brushes. It is designed with the Tangle-free AeroForce™ Extractors are virtually maintenance free, making it even easier for Roomba to tackle daily dirt build-up. Although I have only used this vacuum on my tile floors and other hard floor surfaces, it also works on carpet with is great.
Don’t worry about Roomba going where she isn’t supposed to. She comes with 2 Virtual Wall Barries to help keep her out of the areas that you don’t want cleaned. It also is designed with the iAdapt® Responsive Navigation Technology with cliff-detection sensors so that Roomba avoids stairs and other drop-offs.
Take a peek at my Roomba in motion doing her job…
I totally want one of these! I think it would be perfect to chase after my kids as they leave a trail of crumbs.
This is so awesome. I have three dogs, and I HATE vacuuming, so I totally want this in my life – like yesterday.
I hate it, too! It would be nice to kick back and watch one of these do the work.
Doing the corners with my vacuum is my pet peeve. If I had a vacuum that would do it for me… I would be in heaven.
No brushes? Genius! That’s the thing I dislike most about vacuuming around here…always having to cut off all that hair from the roller brushes 😉
I have always wanted to try one of these. I love that it avoids stairs and drops, too! Thanks for telling me about it 🙂
This is seriously the coolest gadget ever! I love that it cleans without you having to do anything and the fact that you can preset it to clean while you are gone? Genius!
Great review! Love the photos and the look on your cat’s face in the video! We absolutely need one of these. Can I program it to follow my kids around ?!!
I keep seeing these and I really want and need one!! I do wonder what my cat would do as it wandered around cleaning all by itself!
I want a Roomba in the worst way. It would be so nice to have a little gadget do all the vacuuming for me.
Now if only I could get it to the rest of the house chores? Darn that would be so cool!
Oh iRobot…how do I love thee… let me count the ways. I can think of 500 reasons to purchase this for our house. THe biggest one…it goes under the bed!
Wow, your little irobot totally picked up a ton of dirt and hair! I would love to see what one of these would pick up in my home.
Oh my gosh! I need one of these like last year, haha. I swear I clean my floors at least 3 times a week.
OHHHH I want one of these so bad! We have tile on most of our home and its such a pain to sweep, this would make life so much simpler for me.
isn’t it the coolest thing ever. We totally love ours and are obsessed with watching it do an awesome job.
I showed this to my hubby and even he wants it! I think I know what my 31st birthday gift will be!
I would love to have one of these vacuum’s. I have two long hair cats and there is always fur around.
I need one of these! We have 3 dogs in the house (plus I shed just as much as they probably!) so there’s hair everywhere.
Every since these became available, I have wanted one. I cannot see how cleaning my floors could be any easier. Just wish I had been the one to invent it.
I love that this product helps with keeping the floors clean. It’s so convenient to use.
What a busy little worker. I’d love to schedule one of these to clean while I’m working.
I would so love one of these! The only thing that may be able to keep up with my kids messes.
I am super jealous. I need somebody to clean my house
I always liked the idea of these automatic little floor cleaners! I have to check this one out!
I have a roomba and wish I could marry it! It changes my life 🙂
We love our Roomba! I’ll seriously never go back to a conventional vacuum. It’s great being able to schedule the Roomba to clean while I’m not home.
Roomba is not big enough for all the fur that floats through my house! But I would love to try it out.
I need one of these so badly! The dog and kids and small spaces are a lot for me to handle with my big vacuum!
I would love to have Roomba. I heard many positive reviews about it