We have been using the iRobot Roomba Combo j5+ for a few years now, and I’m absolutely blown away by how much easier it’s made my life. This little robot vacuums and mops, avoids obstacles like pet waste and cords like a pro, and then empties itself into a base that holds dirt for up to 60 days. It’s like having a tiny, super-smart housekeeper! Pairing it with Alexa was a breeze, and we love being able to tell it to clean specific rooms with the smart mapping feature. Our floors have never looked better, and I barely have to lift a finger.Pros: • The obstacle avoidance is incredible—no more worrying about it getting tangled in cords or running over pet messes. • Self-emptying for 60 days means I almost forget it’s there until it’s time to swap the bag. • Smart mapping lets me target specific areas, like the kitchen after cooking, without it wandering aimlessly. • The vacuum-mop combo tackles both dust and light spills in one go. • Alexa integration makes it feel futuristic and convenient.Cons: • It’s a bit loud when it’s vacuuming. • The mopping feature works best for light messes—don’t expect it to scrub away tough, dried-on stains.Overall, the Roomba Combo j5+ has exceeded our expectations. It’s perfect for anyone who wants a cleaner home without the hassle. Five stars all the way!

Works well.The mop function is good as well.Cleans really well.This model is the one that doesn’t do carpets.

Funciona excelente y sí reconoce desniveles o escalones. El único detalle que sí se atora con los cables de algún aparato eléctrico. Por lo demás limpia muy bien.

What a complete waste of money!This vacuum has never been able to complete a single cleaning accurately, even though it seems to think it has. Large areas are completely ignored, even though it's a fairly small 2-bedroom apartment. Purchased the iRobot in November/23 but didn't set up and use until May/24. I previously had a $299 Ninja Shark that cleaned 100 times better than this useless piece of junk, even though it had no mapping capabilities. The main reason I made a change was that I awoke in the middle of the night a number of times to the sounds of something, or someone, bumbling around in the living room. It turned out that the Shark had embarked on unscheduled vacuuming forays between 2:30 and 4:00 am, scaring me half to death. As I live alone, this was quite startling, so I decided to spring for a new robot vacuum with mapping capabilities.The iRobot is now giving out signals that the battery doesn't work (button lights up in red) when it's only been used for two months and is not used daily. Mostly once or twice weekly, some weeks not at all.I purchased all the mopping supplies as well, more $ wasted as I am afriaid to even try the mopping feature.I'm sorry that I didn't just choose a new Shark with mapping ability.Tried to get to the support web site, only to find that "the server can't be found". Excuse me???I utterly regret this purchase, as it was fairly expensive and the vacuum is quite useless.The app is not at all intuitiveAmazon has had a LOT of my money over the years!NO, I absolutely DO NOT recommend this product.Update: now going backwards and in circles. Can't even get itself out of the room where it docks.WORST PURCHASE I HAVE EVER MADE!!!

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It's a huge improvement over my over-10-year-old Roomba! So much smarter! I love how it mapped my floor plan and that it now knows where it has been and where it needs to go to finish. The mopping is so-so but that's not why I got it. I have 2 cats and need it for the mid-week vacuuming. It was a great buy at 44% off!

Vaccum: Mapped entire first floor after two runs, map surprisingly accurate. Having the map means you can designate rooms or areas to clean. I divided my large living room into three "rooms" so I can clean specific sections more often than others. Zones work great (i.e., an "avoid" zone around wires). I brought the vac to a different floor and it recognized that, and made a second map for the floor on its own.I have a large dog that sheds a LOT and I run this every morning in the room where he spends the most time, and most other rooms several times a week. Unlike my previous dumb robovac, which pingponged around the house aimlessly, cleaning the same areas over and over until it ran out of battery, and getting stuck in my barstools every time, this robovac goes straight to the area you select, cleans in straight lines, works the perimeter, then returns to base. Never gets stuck. You can tell it to clean several rooms in any order you want, or clean "all." I didn't get the smart base because I read that it got clogged with pet hair, the bags seemed expensive, and I figure I'd be emptying it almost as often, anyway, with all the hair. My pet hair load means I have to empty the dust bin after every room or two, but that's not exactly onerous. TBH, it's kind of satisfying to empty out the bin and see how much hair it picked up. If we didn't have pet hair, the dust bin would probably suffice for the whole house (2000 sf) or more.I have wood floors with a few short-pile rugs. Cleans the wood floors great and the carpets ok. Only complaint is that it's too tall to get under my particular kitchen cabinets so I don't use it in kitchen. The app is great. Alexa commands are inconvenient because it's a whole conversation ("Do you want to start the mop afterward?") and then it usually has some kind of communication issue and I end up grabbing the phone anyway. But the app is easy and you can make favorites so it's just a tap or two to get regular jobs going. This is a sanity saver for me because pet hair drives me mad. In some ways, it vacuums better than a big vac because it really gets under the furniture. However, if the mom-in-law is coming over, might want to pull out the big vac and get in the crevices that this can't get to.The battery life is good and it will vacuum most of the main floor (about 1400 sf) before giving out. Unfortunately, doesn't save enough juice to get back to base (poops out about 15 feet from base) so it doesn't re-charge and resume vacuuming as advertised. Not a problem for me since I tend to vacuum the house piecemeal anyway. I bought it on sale (altho not as cheap as it got before Christmas) and it's worth it.The robomop is a different story. I bought the two bundled. It's true that you can set the mop to start when the vac finishes. HOWEVER, the vac & mop do not share mapping. The mop has to do several runs of its own to make its own map. It will have different "rooms" unless you take a lot of care to ensure everything is exactly the same as the vaccum. And if you create a zone on one ((say, for a Christmas tree) you have to go to the other one and put it on there in exactly the same way. And here's the big problem: if you tell the vac to do Room 1 and the mop to start afterward, the mop doesn't recognize that the vac only did Room 1, and the mop cleans the entire house, not just Room 1. So the "mop after" feature is useless unless you vacuum the whole house first and you want the whole house mopped. Maybe there's a way to do this but I couldn't figure it out. Also, the iRobot floor cleaner, which they say is the only cleaner you can use, leaves streaks on hardwood floors. As other reviewers noted, water does better. So you are limited to water and like to use products that make my wood floors glow. Plus, this mop takes forever and doesn't get up dried on food or other hard stains. And for some reason, my mop doesn't recognize that I put the "wet mop pad" on it, and will only offer to "dry mop" , which is what, exactly? I haven't bothered to try to fix it. Plus, you have to put on the mopping pad and fill the reservoir with water every time. Easier, faster and better to just grab my Bona mop with its great hardwood floor cleaner and make a pass over my floors from time to time. To be fair, the robomop might work better for someone who works away from home and can schedule the vacuum and mop to run while they're gone, and then come home to clean floors. And when I have used it, it does make the floors appreciably cleaner than just vacuuming.

I was really excited to get a Roomba for my new apartment and it is something I've wanted to purchase for some time now.I decided to spend a bit extra to get a nicer model with a few key functions like the ability to control it from an application and schedule by room. I've used this feature a few times and it's amazing - being able to just clean my kitchen while I'm lounging in the living room, or clean my bedroom while I'm making dinner - It's awesome!However... This Roomba is just not what I expected, especially for the price, wow.First of all, this thing runs in random circles around my spaces - it swears that it follows some planned path but it runs into everything most of the time and hasn't learned very much apparently.Second, and my biggest complaint, is that it gets stuck, on EVERYTHING. Rugs, Chairs, Barstools... the list goes on. Not only that, but it will make an aggressive effort to climb over or on something that it shouldn't and gets itself stuck then weakly spins it wheels before complaining that it needs help.I'm frustrated and disappointed that even though I just arrived at work, I have already received a notification that its somehow stuck. I have walked around with this thing 5+ times to see where the problem areas are and I just can't win.I've had to block off multiple sections of my place because it gets stuck on the tiniest of chair legs, and even sends a cliff alert only to be found resting on the edge of a rug????????? That's ridiculous.For nearly $600, I wish I had purchased a Dyson hand held that would do a quick and thorough job. - like wow the regret is real with this one.This thing spends more time getting errors and "stuck" messages than it does actually cleaning my apartment. It also leaves bits of debris everywhere - including bits of paper and such that you think it wouldn't have any issue at all picking up.Really disappointed... We have a really long way to go with these robot vacuums, they're just not very good yet.Ps. The "Rate Features" function is useless. Sure, it has good battery life and works with Alexa, but it can barely do a full run of my apartment without errors and getting stuck or missing sections.Update:I have never had such a frustrating and disappointing experience from a piece of technology this expensive. These are so unbelievably unintelligent it boggles my mind how they’re advertised. If you enjoy spending the amount of time it would take to vacuum your place cleaning up every little thing on the groundI have never regretted buying something more than this. I would have been better of spending the money on a hand held Dyson and spend 20m vacuuming vs the 1h 30m this thing takes running into walls, getting stuck on the smallest things and going back over things 4-5xThere are many things that have benefited from automation, and vacuuming is NOT one of them.