Actually I wouldn't go with a non-brand robot vacuum. Yeah, the ratings *look* good on the surface, but who knows how legit that data actually is? And trust me, these things *always* have issues eventually. When yours breaks (not if!), good luck even finding their customer support – it'll probably vanish.
Now, back to your budget. For under $150, your best bets are:
1. **eufy S11 Max** ($149.99)
2. **iRobot Y0140** ($139.99)
3. **yeedi c12** ($149.99)
But heads up, none are perfect. That iRobot model? The app kinda sucks sometimes. With any of these in this price range, it really depends on what you *expect* a $150 vac bot to actually do. Manage your expectations!
That's correct for the self-emptying version.
However, they simply did not ship the self emptying version. :(
(If you get the self empty version, I'll be livid)
I bought one a while ago for the novelty since it was a black Friday sale (and I suck at keeping a schedule to vacum. Didn’t have mapping but I thought it would be smart enough to still navigate just fine. Instead it just rams into things then randomly changes direction.
Meanwhile, a coworker bought some bootleg that cost a fraction of the price and it runs flawlessly. All the extra shit that roomba charges for in it’s higher tier models are included for free.
Never buying another roomba product. They’ve clearly just been coasting off of brand recognition.
I have been looking for one for years. My solution had been to just toss our old one in the shop when we upgrade the one in the house.
My wife ran over one, they survive for about 6-12 months. True industrial ones are just stupid expensive.
If you can find a used i-mop on eBay, that's the ticket, but it's not automatic.
I’ve had robot shark and roomba. I believe running them daily has prevented us from being buried in dog hair and 100% recommend a robot vacuum. My dogs are very housebroken and I’ve never had the poo every where situation.
Overall, I think the shark works a little better, but I think the roomba’s features and app are better. I just upgraded to the dual vacuum/mop roomba and it’s not perfect but I’m happy. I still have to real vacuum once a week as it doesn’t get all the hair all the time, but the literal basketball was of hair I pull out of the canister every few weeks tells me it’s working pretty damn good.
I have both the combo and the vac only. They are different beasts, the combo has two side brushes is very heavy and very tall. The vac only has one side brush and is a lot lighter and a little shorter in height. Both are good at cleaning up the dried mud, grit and plant material that drops of my gardening boots and both cope with crumbs and general mess very well. I prefer the combo on my hard floors, simply because it mops as it goes, so anything the brushes miss, the mop gets. They both work just as well on carpet. The combo takes more looking after and for me is proving less reliable, its currently in for repair because a side brush stopped turning. Both navigate very well, I've not had one get stuck, but they are large and neither of mine can get through my chair legs, they will just scoot around them. The vac only is lighter, easy to move from one floor to the other. If it was the vac only out of order, I doubt I'd move the combo up and down every day, it's just too heavy for me, but age is not on my side, you might not find it an issue.
The downsides are, they both have a bin bag bug, every once in a while they swear blind there is no bag or the bag is full, it isn't, you need to take the bag out and shake the contents down and put the bag back. Both do this occasionally, the instruction book tells you to just shake the contents down. The vac only has no ramp, it sits directly onto your floor, which is OK on hard floor and low pile carpet, but could be an issue on high pile.
The app is fine now, its got all the features of the old one. I can't help with pet hair as I have no pets.
If reliability and mostly hands off are high on your list, get the vac only, but for my tiled floors, I prefer the roller mop. They both look after 1500 sq ft daily, the batteries last well. The vac only is working hard doing the full 3000 sq ft a day without any issue.
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Reliable, great mopping (lifts pads), but poor cable avoidance.
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