iRobot - Roomba s9+
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Last updated: Jul 17, 2025 Scoring
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7
"and a Corgi and it's been an absolute beast"
"did a fantastic job of vacuuming pet hair ... happily being busy getting up the pet hair ... I love this thing despite its flaws."
"One of our cats is extremely fluffy and this vacuum is super aggressive."
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6
"The Roomba S9 is way better in that regard."
"It does an incredible job of getting into corners and pulling hair out of rugs"
"Still vacuums way better than any modern robot I've seen... ... How much it pulls out of carpet"
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5
"it still amazes me how much better it is at vacuuming on carpet than everything else (except Dyson)"
"I seriously love iRobot hardware vacuum performance as in the amount of dirt they pick up"
"did a fantastic job of vacuuming pet hair ... happily being busy getting up the pet hair ... I love this thing despite its flaws."
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5
"Been running daily for about 5 years."
"Been using it regularly for about 6 years without a single issue."
"I’ve had my s9 for going on six years. ... Four dogs, two homes, combo carpet and hardwood."
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1
"my favorite thing about it is the self emptying"
"The one big thing I did really appreciate is the self empty canister that I only needed to change monthly or so."
"Something with the clean base for sure. I have 3 Aussies and my s9+ will return twice in about the same sq footage to empty."
Disliked most:
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"I also have to be careful to pick everything up or it will get stuck after destroying my kids toys."
"my 18 month old s9+ unit that has been broken for last 4 months!!!! ... the robot is reporting an issue with them [cliff sensors], this is what is causing the undocking issues as well. ... a major part replaced at 2 1/2 mths old and then 12 months later is broken again"
"My s9 gets stuck on a 9 mm treshhold. ... That's where mine got stuck. Every damn time."
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"the roomba gives zero craps if the rollers are hitting strong resistance and will just keep trying to spin. ... So with huskies filling the house with new massive fur tumbleweeds on a daily basis, the rollers would A) get animal hair wedged into their metaly rotatey motor parts almost instantly, B) keep spinning at full blast until they almost catch fire. ... house would smell like burnt plastic mixed with burnt hair after a run."
"or the rollers don’t load up with hair and melt the CHM."
"our s9+ would wrap fur around the rollers, and the fur would just cut channels in the flaps, which created sites for more and more tangles. ... If we went a couple days without vacuuming, this photo is what would happen. ... On average, I think we got about two weeks out of a brush, so we pretty quickly abandoned it and just went back to a regular vacuum."
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"the roomba gives zero craps if the rollers are hitting strong resistance and will just keep trying to spin. ... So with huskies filling the house with new massive fur tumbleweeds on a daily basis, the rollers would A) get animal hair wedged into their metaly rotatey motor parts almost instantly, B) keep spinning at full blast until they almost catch fire. ... house would smell like burnt plastic mixed with burnt hair after a run."
"as years went on, it developed constant software issues, which finally was its end."
"the crappy software updates, constant errors and resets broke me."
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"or the rollers don’t load up with hair and melt the CHM."
"The S9 ended up in pieces."
"I too have gone through 3 S9s and have finally had enough of its shenanigans."
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"before the S9/J9 were an actual nuisance with noise."
"We could never do the S9+ more than once a day - and some days had to just cancel it - because it was so loud on our hardwood floors."
"Kind of loud on hard floors."
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