iRobot Roomba 652 Robot Vacuum

I was an early Roomba convert. I bought one of the 1st or 2nd gen products back in 2004 and was VERY happy with it. I then purchased a Scooba (sp?) and was far less impressed. In 2005 I was married, we moved into an apartment that had door saddles and we bought a bunch of rugs. Roomba wasn't able to keep up with the changes and he was retired.Fast forward to today. Roomba is back and it's more honey badger than tin man. Roomba no longer cares about door saddles - it plows over them like a running back. It can seek out its own docking station and settle in for a recharge. It still is great about getting into nooks and crannies to seek out and eliminate hair, dust and miscellaneous junk. Under the bed? Yep. around the bookshelves? Yep. You have to work at it to keep Roomba out of somewhere.Frankly I was humiliated at just how much unidentifiable yuckiness the Roomba picked up. We thought we had a clean home but evidently we were one step removed from plague-era villages.I am pleasantly surprised at how the sensor upgrades have improved the product. It used to be that Roomba had two travel speeds - ramming speed and complete stop. This led to scuff marks on walls and damaged veneers. This newer model(s) sense upcoming collisions and slows down, easing into them. Furniture and walls are left unblemished.I ran the Roomba throughout the entire 2-bedroom apartment. After 5 hours of operation, 3 area rugs, multiple sills, an inordinate amount of extension cords and ethernet wires (I'm a geek) and lots of furniture the Roomba emerged triumphant. It never once hung up on an obstacle. It went where it wanted, when it wanted and our floors are all the cleaner because of it. The unit will normally stop after one hour of operation. That's plenty of time to clean most rooms. If you are especially dust-phobic, indulge your needs and press the clean button once more.Our apartment was tangibly cleaner. Our allergies (it's prime allergy season here in New York) have lessened. The floor felt practically virginal. In homage to our current sensibilities let me specify that this means there is absolutely no whatsoever feeling of grit or impurity underfoot. The rooms smelled better. We even ended up with less clutter because we took a few minutes to put some accumulated junk away. We even managed to (OMG) donate or throw a few things away.So what are the tradeoffs? This version is not "smart". It won't pair up with your Google,, Apple or Alexa appliances. You can manually schedule cleaning but it's like stoneage (1990's) clock radio config to set it up. Then again it's a few hundred dollars less than the higher end home products by iRobot. The higher end products will answer to your every whim via the major platforms.Then again, I can't think of many occasions when I am sitting at my office and thinking to myself "hey, I should vacuum the floors at this very moment". Maybe you do - I'm not judging. If so, let down a couple of more c-notes and get yourself a super brainy version.For the rest of us though, this device has what it takes to give you a (mostly) labor-free path to clean floors, reduced allergies and geekdom status.

I named the thing Romeo, because LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT. I watched this little robot with his little brushy arm sweep my floor, under my dining room table, vacuum my kitchen rugs and then put itself back to sleep. I cook a lot and constantly have little bits of this and that on my kitchen floor, maybe a dusting of flour as well. THEN I have a cat and a HUSKY. I've only had him for a day, but I know right now that he is changing my life. He has no problem with any of my thresholds, and can glide from room to room and pretty much do my entire house if I leave all the doors open. He misses a spot here and there, but honestly he does better than my kids, who are the primarily floor sweepers in the house. I can't even explain how awesome it is to wake up to clean, mostly hair and particle-free kitchen rugs! And no tumble-hair rolling across the floor threatening to get rustled by the heat vent and fly up into the soup I'm stewing on the stove top! I only gave 4 stars because I haven't gotten to know him well enough. Once I know him better, I'll update my review.

Amazon selling defective old Roombas on Black Friday? The Roomba spins in circles until nudged, fails to find the hallway and kitchen (in a 1 bedroom apartment!), covers same area over and over again while ignoring others entirely! Have kept running it almost daily hoping for some "learning" of the area, but to no avail! In addition, returns to the charging station, but fails to charge until manually "wiggled" on the charging stand. A friend purchased a Roomba on Black Friday and had an even worse experience: it simply failed to power up after two very random runs of her house! All of this sounds ridiculous considering how infamous and well-liked the entire series of iRobot Roombas is since its appearance on the market. I've had a rather taxing experience with out of warranty service for my old Neato, but apart from that, the machine itself seems technologically by far advanced! A lemon (2 lemons!) or the power of advertising???

We had another model of Roomba from several years ago that did an EXCELLENT job of picking up the cat hair. It had issues with my long hair and it was getting older so we decided to get a newer model. We got an 805 which is great in all regards EXCEPT picking up cat hair. It rolls the fur tufts up into little sausages and leaves those all over the carpet. It is far better about not clogging up with long human hair but the rubber rollers won’t pick up the cat hair.I decided to get the 652 specifically because photos showed that it had a brush roller. Tried it in my office where the cat hair is a real problem and this one won’t pick it up either. Looked at the brush assembly and found that the bristles on the brush roller on this newer model are VERY soft. (The brush roller on our older model had bristles that were quite stiff which enabled it to brush the cat hair up from where it was caught in the carpet). Not at all happy with this purchase. This may have to be returned because it doesn’t do the one thing I purchased it to do and I don’t see any option to purchase a stiffer brush. Sadly, we gave away the older model Roomba we had so I can’t just put that back into service.I gave it two stars because it’s fine otherwise, although it may ultimately have an issues with long (human) hair like our prior model as it appears to be much like that one except for the stiffness of the brush bristles.

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