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I bought a Roomba that can mop and vacuum (pricey models are great). I bought a bunch of replacement rags/mops on Temu for a few euros, and exchange them every now and then. All you have to do besides that is fill its water tank with clean water and floor soap. I also went on my Roomba's App, drew out a map of my house, and set a cleaning schedule for every single day on setting 'deep clean'. And he keeps the floors like 98% spotless, while we have 2 long-haired dogs and 1 short hair cat. We still vacuum and mop ourselves like once a week or so. But if need be we could easily skip that. The difference has been amazing. Googly eyes are optional. ;) Why do it yourself if a robot can do it for you?

I love my Roomba (no mop), and have owned it since Covid. Use my Upright e/o week, then Roomba 3-4 days each week. Am Amazed at the amount of lint/dust/hair/crud I find in Roomba on day-1 after 4 days of not using either. The upright bag needs replacing only once a year.

Two labs and two roombas here. J8+ is the newer one. The old fella is a 900 series and lives in the bedroom only now. His battery isn’t so good and he has trouble docking, but he’s still sucking in the most important ways.

Very. I run the J8+ twice a week and the 900 once a week. That keeps the hair in check.

Why not iRobot Roomba? My 900-series works perfectly. Low carpets are easy, high carpets are difficult. My roomba runs every other night when we are asleep :)

I had the R9 (I think) - top of the line iRobot I think or maybe Roomba? (It was black and gold). It came with the mop and the vacuum system paired. It would map out the room - get caught on my Barcelona chair legs despite it. Get caught under the couch. Get caught under the legs of my desk chair. Ram and maul the shit out of everything including itself - it looked all beat up just after a week. I was living in an apartment and rarely used it afraid it would bother the neighbors below me. It sounded like a jet engine. Way more trouble than it was worth. The mop would do a decent job in a 5x5 foot area before it would dry out. I think the entirety of owning it, it never made it to its base station without getting stuck on something. Turning it on low power solved nothing. Worst $1000+ I’ve ever spent. Though in its defense I did have a fairly small one bedroom apartment at the time. Maybe a large home with wide spaces they do well with…I wouldn’t invest in one again. But some swear by them.