I have three relatively low pile area rugs with simple borders. No tassels or bumps to be climbed by the machine. I am now in my third week of using my new Roomba and have to say that I am underwhelmed at the difficulty it has with the area rugs. It is extremely inconsistent in how it treats the rugs. Sometimes it treats the edge as an obstacle and changes course. Sometimes it treats it like ordinary flooring and cleans a little of it with no problems. But usually it gets stopped for many imaginary reasons once it is cleaning one of the rugs. On average it gets stuck 10 to 12 times per 90 minute battery charge. And, to add insult, when I move the stopped machine to a completely different room it often finds its way back to where it got stuck,… and you guessed it - stuck again. While I like the job that it does on my bare floors, it just seems to be too little benefit for the constant rescuing that has to be done because of the incessant stops. I do not know if other models or brands do better with area rugs but I would do some serious checking before buying one if you have area rugs.

This vacuum robot is very useful as I can do other things rather than vacuuming. It is most effective if you run it everyday, but it does not entirely replace a regular vacuum. That being said, I do need to move chairs, plants, stuff on floor if I want a thorough job. It only covers approx 1000sq ft of rooms and I have to clean the bin 2x. I would never run it when I'm not home, sometimes it gets stuck. It also will leave pet hair/debris when transitioning from a wood floor to a rug. It won't do corners. It doesn't pick up sand very well. I Am looking at the Roomba i7+ for a Lake House setting.

This thing has changed my life for the better! I have a white dog and his hair would just accumulate and I did not have time to dedicate to vacuuming like I should. This has eased my anxiety about it there cause it's not an issue at all anymore! I am so so so in love with this!

As someone in the cleaning business I was always skeptical of the effectiveness of these type vacuums especially with pet hair. After years of my wife pleading to get one I bought the 675 for her for Christmas. Normally that wouldn't be a greart gift but she loved it, and the perfume I also bought? And we tried it out. All I can say is I was amazed at what a great job it did. I regret not buying one sooner and now I'm looking at one of the mopping robots. If you're hesitant, don't be, you'll be glad you bought one.

Without a doubt Higgins saved our dog Lunas butt. We got Higgins about 3 months after getting our dog. I'm a single dad and a bit of a neat freak with 2 boys I already clean up after. Our dogs a shedder and I was having tumbleweeds of hair everywhere. It was driving me nuts. I felt like every time I turned around I had to vacuums. I was literally looking for another home for Luna. I was over the hair and constant vacuuming. Than a friend got me the Roomba. I would have never have bought one on my own. I just thought there's no way those things can work. Wow, I could not have been more wrong. I love it. To say it's changed my life would be an understatement. I have it programmed to run every night at 2am while we're asleep. It leaves the wood floors spotless. No hair anywhere. We walk around bare foot and the floors are always clean now. I was blown away. When we leave for the day I bring it upstairs to do the bedrooms which are carpeted. I still vacuum the carpet with the vacuum on the weekend. It gets deeper but Higgins gets the dog hair during the week on the carpet extremely well. Absolute game changer. Highly recommend.

Need to buy much more expensive model that one can program. This one aimlessly wanders and recleans same spots many times but misses dirty spots. Have to literally pick it up and put it in different places to get floor clean. Faster more effective sweeping with broom.

I purchased the iRobot to help with the amount of dust my 700 sq ft apartment collects in a week. I tend to vacuum once on the weekend but always hate having dust on my feet during the week. The idea was to run this while I was at work maybe twice a week. However, this model seems to cause a lot of destruction in my apartment, such as knocking over plants, or hitting too hard into a table and knocking over what is on it. For this reasons I have only run the iRobot while I am home. Other then this it does a great job of getting almost all the dust collected in my apartment and I am amazed at how much there is in just a week.

First time using this robotic vacuum and I started off with this good established manufacturer product. It's amazing to see this little vacuum working around and have a great feeling that the carpeted room is being clean effectively. The only drawback is the living room rug which has some dark colors and the robotic vacuum would stop its function when detecting dark color by default. I would still recommend this to my relatives and friends as it's a wonderful product in keeping the carpeted room clean.

We ran out Dyson after we ran out new I Roomba just to see how well it cleaned. Much to our surprise, it did a really good job lifting up the pet hair. We've ran it quite a few times since we made our purchase, and are very pleased with it's performance. I would buy it again, but I already have one (hee-hee).

I absolutely love my roomba! What a huge timesaver, to have Rhonda vacuum for me, I love the fact that I can be doing anything else and my robot is cleaning for me. She does a great job on my hardwood floors and the spot feature is great for a quick clean up. The area under my bed is cleaned regularly now, thanks to roomba.