iRobot - Roomba 675 (Restored)

My old 675 is cleaning my floors for 7 years and besides occasional maintenance and nowadays bit worn battery no issues whatsoever.

I have the older 677. Still works great. If I had to buy another I’d get the self-emptying.. buts she’s only on hard floors, no carpet.

I should add that I do have one older Roomba in our cat litter room. It does do a really good job, but it’s in a square room with LVP and it really can’t go wrong. I don’t know if I would trust it on long dog hair and human hair in thick carpet.

I had a $600 roomba from like 2018 that was total trash. Then I got some cheap Roborock for $150 a few years ago and it ran circles around it. Just better options for the price.

More complex vacuum and mopping robots with lots of sensors and fail points are probably going to last less long than a simple vacuum. I believe a lot of brands are heavily pushing mop + vacuum because they need replacing more and are more profitable. If longevity is important, I would think about vacuum only if you don't really need the mop. Brands change over time. I have an Irobot 676 which is working just fine 6 years, but they tend to get bad rep lately.

I got a Roomba 675 at a thrift store for $20 thinking I'd upgrade if I liked it, but the thing worked great to control my husky's shedding (plus two fluffy cats and tracked litter). It doesn't have mapping or and the self-emptying bin thing, but I love it.

I live in a almost completely hardwood floored Victorian. I have two Roombas: a "rescue" I found at a thrift store for the downstairs and a smaller off brand one for the upstairs that we jokingly say we got from a "breeder." They have names and the dogs treat them about like they treated our cat when he was still alive, tbh. We have mainly white, black spotted pitt/dane crosses and the sheer amount of hair they shed makes me bewildered because *how could they possibly shed that much and not be bald?!*

Just picked up a Roborock QRevo from Costco yesterday, and was able to return an older Shark that stopped working as an even swap ($399). The tech has come a long way in a few years. I’ve relegated my old Roomba 671 to the basement.

The newest generations of Roomba's seem to be much more competitively priced and seem to be a pretty good value. It was mostly there older line of product offerings from 2021-24 that was outdated and overpriced. I still have a Roomba 675 for my second floor, and while it is an old school low tech model, after 5 years it is still a workhorse, plus there is a ton of aftermarket parts available for replacing worn out parts and filters for cheap.

I've had a very different experience, apparently. I borrowed and tried an old (2016) Roomba a little over a year ago, and was impressed. Did a shopping deep dive. Got a Roborock as a result of reading many reviews. That dang Roborock dropped out its rollers twice, once from running over the forced air vent in the kitchen, and again from running over a cat toy. I didn't have a self-emptying model, so I could check what exactly it was achieving because I had to empty it out. Second day: not much hair/debris in the bin. Then on its third day in my possession, it picked up next to nothing. I still had the borrowed and MUCH older Roomba, so I sent it out on patrol, and it picked up a ton of dog hair. Maybe the Roborock I got was a lemon, but because of that it's not a brand I'd turn to as a first choice anymore. For sure the Roborock app is far better than iRobot's, but the objective here is cleaning, not fun on the phone. If OP is going to consider a robot vacuum I'd certainly suggest doing as much research as they can stand.

675 or other 600 series model from a thrift store. $20. Doesn’t empty its self but if you want that you prob need to buy a new one or from someone off marketplace. Honestly emptying the bin yourself after it’s done takes 30 seconds :)

675 or other 600 series model from a thrift store. $20. Doesn’t empty its self but if you want that you prob need to buy a new one or from someone off marketplace. Honestly emptying the bin yourself after it’s done takes 30 seconds :)

As proven by the roomba 600 series time and time again suction isn’t always the most important factor in how a robot vacuum cleans but it’s sweeping mechanism is. Suction is also a metric easily manipulated by these companies.