Samsung - Jet Bot (Base Model)

I saw someone say they don't recommend Dyson robots. I don't recommend Dyson anything. Completely overhyped and pretty much everything they make is done better by someone else. Friends have had good experiences with Roborock. I don't know anyone who has a Shark robot hoover, but I recently bought a regular (stick) hoover from them and I am impressed by the build quality. Obvisouly that says little about a robot product, but it shows care. :) I have a Samsung Jet Bot right now. Great machine, but it has a badly built gear that I expect will affect most people sooner or later.

Low quality plastic. I don't know the proper name for them, but it slowly strips the 'teeth'. About 2 weeks ago, it started making noises. I immediately identified it as the sound of a gear slipping instead of gripping. Even on regular turns. I went online and found other complaints about it. Someone 3D-printed new gears because Samsung only sells the whole assembly (\~$150). I have ordered them in the hope I can repair it myself.

After lots of trial and error, I've come up with the winning recipe of a robot mop (but with the dry swiffer-like pad on) runs every day at 615am. The robot vacuum then comes along about an hour later and gets any missed tufts and dirt. This method saves the robot vacuum from getting clogged daily. Since the pads are dry, the hair all sticks to it and I just pull the blobs of hair off and replace it when it gets actually dirty.

Samsung Jet Bot Vacuum and an iRobot brava jet

For hair you will want a brush assembly that will cut hair. I agree most, almost all, robot mops wont apply enough downward force. The xwow r2 is the only robot Ive ever worked with that has… but as I said the software isn’t great and the company essentially doesn’t exist. https://a.co/d/062TPPNo In lieu of those the mova p10 ultra will handle the hair to an acceptable level, grab the hair cutting brush instead of the stock brush. Mopping isn’t as good as the xwow r2… but I have not had one break… and the app is fairly reliable. I only have two of them so, not a huge sample size. https://a.co/d/01mUiskb I really like samsung jetbots as they are super cheap on ebay, and I haven’t had any of those fail either. They run twice a day every day and I have three jetbots and two jetbot ai+. Both of the ai+’s batteries failed. One of their gear trains failed as well. But the jetbots just keep chugging along. Reason I bring it up as, Ive picked up my xwow r2’s and my jetbots for about $200 a piece. The mova p10 ultra’s for, I believe $450 each… So, if it were me, and I absolutely had to have one and only one machine… then I would grab another p10 ultra. However if you have technical skill, Id recommend a pair, the xwow r2 and the samsung jetbot. Let the jetbot run every day, handle the bulk of the hair and such. Let the xwow r2 mop once or twice a week. I disable the vacuum functions on the xwow r2s as they dont have auto empty etc. and mopping robots dont stack up when compared to dedicated vacuum robots. But the mova p10 ultra’s are fairly nice because they dont cause nearly as much fuss compared to the xwow r2s and their vacuum functions aren’t terrible. I’ll say that the p10s avoid obstacles much better than most of the robots in my… uh… fleet. But I dont often have to play hide and seek with the jetbots, my p10s have a half dozen hiding places they like to hang out in… Id be curious if you could get better mopping performance by dropping a 10lb weight on top of your robot to get it to scrub the floors…