iRobot - i5+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum
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Last updated: Aug 12, 2025 Scoring
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"I have a dog now finishing a shed. ... I live in the mountains with essentially a gravel front yard, so she tracks in a lot of sand. ... For me, the ji5 was 300 dollars well spent."
"my Roomba i5+ works great for hair."
"On hard floors any of them will pick up the hair."
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"They have mapping and self-emptying, which for me are absolutely essential features. ... We've had others without the self-emptying feature and I never emptied them regularly enough, which rendered them less effective."
"sensors that detect debris building up in the vacuum path and send the bot to the dock to auto-empty and resume."
"I have an iRobot Roomba that empties its own bag into a base. Love it."
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"They have mapping and self-emptying, which for me are absolutely essential features. ... We've had others without the self-emptying feature and I never emptied them regularly enough, which rendered them less effective."
"Love not having to vacuum under beds and sofas."
"Two huskies here. We have a self emptying Roomba. We run it 5 days a week. ... But even that cuts manual cleaning time, because I can just take the hand vac to the chunks."
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"They have mapping"
"and includes mapping."
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"I did have the fan motor stop working in the i5, but i was able to fix that by taking it apart and reassemeling, IIRC a contact had worked loose somehow. ... The roombas specifically seem to be resonably reparable, wheels, motor assemblies and so on can be replaced if they break and there seems to be guides on youtube for everything."
"They’re easy to repair and there’s an abundance of filters and spare parts."
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"I spend 3-4 minutes putting things like litter baskets and chairs up off the floor so it has a better reach, then schedule it to run 3x. Then turn the schedule off again and return loose items to the floor."
"It took some prep to make my home ready for it--furniture needs to be high enough (and legs wide enough apart) for it to run up under. ... Lamp cords need to be secured."
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"IMHO the brushes are my main eco concern with these, the rubber ones get ruined relly fast by long hair and larger debris."
"it starts just wadding up hair and leaving it in chunks"
"Do clean the hair out of it after it runs (takes only a couple minutes). ... Spend about a minute getting hair out of its rollers."
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"All the i and j7 and below series vacuums have the same motor. Only the s9 and j9 have more suction, the s9 is actually better suction."
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"IMHO the brushes are my main eco concern with these, the rubber ones get ruined relly fast by long hair and larger debris."
"it starts just wadding up hair and leaving it in chunks"
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"the side brush kept getting caught in the bumper. ... Apparently, it's a known defect for that model."
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