iRobot - i3+ Series
Models:
Combo® i3+ Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum & Mop
i3+ EVO Self-Emptying Robot Vacuum
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Last updated: Aug 1, 2025 Scoring
Liked most:
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"Literally a tank. ... Ran it three times a week for over three years. ... Over 1000 hours and 300,000 sqft of cleaned area. ... Replaced the battery for $50 and was still running fine "
"it runs every day without issues"
"It's able to be repaired and cleaned regularly which is key to making sure it lasts a long time."
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"All the parts that will have tangled hair (like rollers, empty bin, rotating brushes, and wheels) are extremely easy to remove and clean, almost with no tools needed. I literally take only ten minutes to remove every dog hair inside the system."
"Literally a tank. ... Ran it three times a week for over three years. ... Over 1000 hours and 300,000 sqft of cleaned area. ... Replaced the battery for $50 and was still running fine "
"it runs every day without issues"
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"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."
"All the parts that will have tangled hair (like rollers, empty bin, rotating brushes, and wheels) are extremely easy to remove and clean, almost with no tools needed. I literally take only ten minutes to remove every dog hair inside the system."
"It collects plenty of debris and cat hair, mix of carpets and hard floors."
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"Dust bag in dock compresses very hard the hair, so every bag will last you like a month."
"It has a reservoir of the liquid at the charging station and a bag dispenser for the dust as well."
"Make sure to get one that auto empties to a bin because the robot fills up quick."
Disliked most:
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"a change in layout has confused it beyond belief."
"it hasn’t made it through a cycle yet without some kind of error. ... Yeah that’s about my experience too."
"its lack of lidar or any type of cameras makes it wedge itself under my furniture almost every time it runs. ... It gets stuck almost every day. ... I actually considering a new one for upstairs because it s so bad by comparison."
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"the drying portion was very loud ... the pad still hadn’t dried ... Yep and that is why it is going back! ... They said it would be a low hum. I’m like that is not a low hum!"
"It clogged docking because it was moist from the mopping it was doing at the same time. ... the brushes and ducting getting dirty with wet dirt."
"iRobot Roomba combo and Braava are really just automated swiffer mops that do not suck up the dirty solution off the floor. ... They spray the floor and drag an absorbent pad over it instead. ... If you have a handheld swiffer with the solution sprayer, you will find that the Roomba mop models work almost identically. ... These will do a general clean but do not scrub the floor and cannot clean up spilled food or drinks."
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"I don't even want to be home when my roomba is running."
"the drying portion was very loud ... the pad still hadn’t dried ... Yep and that is why it is going back! ... They said it would be a low hum. I’m like that is not a low hum!"
"The side spinning brush is as loud as it was on the j9+. Too bad iRobot didn’t use a quieter motor which would have really helped the overall noise level of the machine."
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"don't buy the I3 unless you live in an empty room"
"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."
"I feel like I spend more time cleaning the roomba of the dog hair than it spends running."
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"it hasn’t made it through a cycle yet without some kind of error. ... Yeah that’s about my experience too."
"Today it won’t connect to internet all the sudden no matter what I do. ... Yeah that’s about my experience too."
"its lack of lidar or any type of cameras makes it wedge itself under my furniture almost every time it runs. ... It gets stuck almost every day. ... I actually considering a new one for upstairs because it s so bad by comparison."
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