iRobot - i7+
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Last updated: Aug 29, 2025 Scoring
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"having it clean every other day or something helps with what the dogs bring in from the back yard and the cats tracking litter."
"I have a husky and an I7+. Best purchase ever, floors are reasonably clean."
"I seriously love iRobot hardware vacuum performance as in the amount of dirt they pick up"
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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."
"Imo having the base where it can go back and empty itself is key. ... On its usual run of our main floor (maybe 800sf) it will empty itself mid-run and then finish."
"the i7 really rocks as the first time it went a few times to the tower to empty the tummy."
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"I had been using an i7+ for years now and had been extremely happy with it, with regular maintenance and removing the hair from the rollers and the front wheel practically daily, it ran great."
"almost all comments from owners with high hours (maybe 800+) were either roborock S5s, old random pattern roombas, and i series roombas. ... People are getting very long lifespans with new Roombas, providing they don't want to upgrade to something with more features ... I still haven't ran into this issue after 1k jobs and 380 hours runtime on my j5+"
"I had a i7 that lasted about 5 years. ... it was still chugging along after daily use for over 4 years."
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"the Roomba was WAY better at navigation and not getting stuck in fun and interesting places every day. ... The "bumping into everything" part is why my roomba didn't get stuck nearly as often."
"The i7 does a better job getting on the taller area rugs we have and get stuck less."
"it’s surprisingly smart with room mapping"
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"my i7 Roomba is great for getting the floors free of dust and light debris"
"having it clean every other day or something helps with what the dogs bring in from the back yard and the cats tracking litter."
"I had a i7 that lasted about 5 years. ... it was still chugging along after daily use for over 4 years."
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"I’m constantly cleaning tanged hair from the brushes. ... I’m honestly tired of cleaning the brushes with a scissors 😩"
"The only issue is I used to have long hair and it would get sooo tangled - it would tell me the Roomba was stuck in a corner somewhere, when really it was a clump of hair so big it physically pushed it up 😭"
"the LiDAR system to (hopefully) not eat cables and avoid some furniture ... The cable thing was always a pain because it sometimes knocked into something laying on the ground, moving that object enough to expose the cable behind it and then went to town, grabbing and dragging that cable behind it. ... I don’t expect it to be perfect, but a little bit of intelligence would be nice."
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"I got about 8 months out of a roomba before the thing went feral. ... It would try to get out the backdoor and down the deck stairs. ... After awhile it would just come out of the dock, spin, and go back home."
"crappy software updates, constant errors and resets broke me. ... the software is absolute garbage ... a vacuum is completely useless if it can navigate correctly."
"I've caught it trying to use the wrong floor's map, even when I try to tell it explicitly where it is."
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"I’m constantly cleaning tanged hair from the brushes. ... I’m honestly tired of cleaning the brushes with a scissors 😩"
"You will likely have to clean the rollers once a month or so, but that was more due to my SO's hair than the cats. ... still requires cleaning of the rollers from my SO's hair."
"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."
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"unlike Roomba, which had its spin brush break every three weeks."
"It broke a few months ago"
"I got about 8 months out of a roomba before the thing went feral. ... It would try to get out the backdoor and down the deck stairs. ... After awhile it would just come out of the dock, spin, and go back home."
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"I’m constantly cleaning tanged hair from the brushes. ... I’m honestly tired of cleaning the brushes with a scissors 😩"
"We have dogs that shed a lot. It just got to the point where I was doing more babysitting of the vacuum than actual vacuuming."
"The only issue is I used to have long hair and it would get sooo tangled - it would tell me the Roomba was stuck in a corner somewhere, when really it was a clump of hair so big it physically pushed it up 😭"
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