iRobot - Roomba Combo 10 Max

I was thinking this too, getting rid of my iRobot 10 combo max.. is the price now $1095 to stay? Also, is this because v2 is coming soon? I see a lot of the ai coming to this model is “coming soon.”?

I have used the flagships from all the main Chinese brands, but I wouldn't say that any one is, on whole, better than the Roomba J9 or C10. My main gripes with the Roomba are hair tangles on the roller spindles, lack of edge mopping, and a fast side brush that flings crumbs out of the path. Most recently I got a Roborock Saros 10 that does indeed address those issues, but it falls short in others. The Roomba scrubs dried stains more effectively and it vacuums more debris out of thick carpet. Even though hair can get tangled around the roller spindles, it actually picks up the hair off the carpet. No other brand has been able to effectively pick up hair/fur/fuzz off my carpet (I'm sure Dyson would be an exception, but it doesn't mop). The Roborock won't get close enough to my table pedestal to get the crumbs that have fallen there, which is a daily annoyance. Roomba has no trouble with this. Roomba has great integration with Google Assistant, so I can have it clean shortcuts/routines without having to take my phone out of my pocket. I haven't seen any other brand be able to do this. Roomba and Shark are the only brands that can effectively avoid dragging a wet pad across medium pile carpet. Other brands don't lift the pad high enough, and the idea of dropping off the pads is useless when you have to traverse across carpet to get to/from the place to mop. There are a lot of complaints that Roombas can't navigate in the dark. While LiDAR bots can navigate in the dark, good object avoidance still relies on cameras, which doesn't work as well in the dark anyway. So better to clean in the light anyway. So I think the Roomba c10 and the Shark Nevertouch Pro are both excellent choices that you shouldn't feel bad about. They will have annoyances, but so will anything else.

I have the Roomba Combo 10, and honestly, it's been a huge disappointment. It feels like an unfinished product — definitely not something I’d expect from iRobot, and I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone.

We also have a roomba max 10 as well and we really like the cleaning and mopping performance.

I know everyone 💩's on this Roomba, and when I found it for $450 on Ebay I thought I scored, but was super scared to use it. But for real, it blows my J7+ (+ Braava) out of the water. It vacuums and mops at the same time, doesn't need to redock and charge its battery, and has the power to drive over a gap with tile into our kitchen (Braava could never) and vacuum/mop that area. It picked up so much pet hair on its first pass (despite the J7 having ran that week) that it got clogged docking (the only time that has happened ever) because there was just so much. As much as I read about everyone having issues with this model, it's been my best robot vacuum ever. Just wanted to post something against the grain.

And their products suck. I bought both the vacuum and mop during Covid. The mop always had much better programming. Now it gets about 1’ from the dock and spins in circles until it crashes into the dock and bunch then times out. It might work after trying 5-8 times. And even then it does a shit job

It clogged docking because it was moist from the mopping it was doing at the same time. Some users started doing dry vacuuming and mopping on the slowest suction because the brushes and ducting getting dirty with wet dirt. It's so sad irobot won't allow mop-only run.

Yeah it’s pretty dire. You’d think after 5 years of development it would do a better job but all it has is extra suck (pun intended) compared to my i7+ and m6 pair - it constantly gets stuck going from tile to rugs regardless of pile level, will bounce off objects and get itself in a tizzy mapping a mile long corridor outside my house (Mark Z. Danielewski would be proud!), and has never ever shown me an object avoidance image to review. The side brush doesn’t spin properly. It slips on its own slippery mopped surfaces and gets confused mopping the same 1 sqft for 90 mins before just running out of battery, or tells me it’s stuck (in the middle of an empty room). The only saving grace is that compared to an i7+ and m6 it doesn’t take up two robots to do the one job. I can’t imagine the new ones are any better. LIDAR isn’t going to fix mechanical issues.

Yes. I have my combo 10 max that I run daily but every once in a while I still let my s9+ run. It’s the most beautiful robot vacuum made and it’s high quality strong suction too. It’s upsetting that iRobot didn’t evolve on the S platform

I am really undecided between the eufy Omni S1 Pro and the Ecovacs Deebot X9 Pro Omni. I have no budget - just want something that works. My main floor is 3000 sq ft of which 65% is darker hardwood and 35% is medium color ceramic tile. I have 3 smaller low pile area rugs so for me the priority is mopping & getting rid of dust on hardwood/ceramic floors. I currently have the Roomba Combo 10 Max and it has really bad performance which frustrates me so much so I will pay any amount to just have a robot vac that will start and end as scheduled and not have any issues performing its duties or leaving weird streak and residue all over my floors.