iRobot - i7+
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Last updated: Jul 19, 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 seriously love iRobot hardware vacuum performance as in the amount of dirt they pick up"
"we have a dog and it handles hair like a pro."
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"emptying itself is the best part tbh."
"the i7 really rocks as the first time it went a few times to the tower to empty the tummy."
"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."
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"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."
"the devices have worked well for almost three years with few problems or costs. ... The i7 has cleaned for almost 500 hours, with only one exceptional cost: a new front swivel wheel because the previous one was worn out."
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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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"having it clean every other day or something helps with what the dogs bring in from the back yard and the cats tracking litter."
"my i7 Roomba is great for getting the floors free of dust and light debris"
"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."
"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’m constantly cleaning tanged hair from the brushes. ... I’m honestly tired of cleaning the brushes with a scissors 😩"
"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."
"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."
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"unlike Roomba, which had its spin brush break every three weeks."
"none of them lasted more than 2 years ... iRobots are absolute junk"
"It broke a few months ago"
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"the roomba doesn’t actually pick up the fur. ... And it would be cleaner ... my house is way cleaner"
"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."
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