For the first week of ownership, we were disappointed in the robots random movements, but we had read in other reviews that it needs some time to explore and update itself, so we gave it a chance. The more it explored, the more software updates were downloaded, and the more efficiently it performed. Here are the pros and cons of owning this model:
PROS:
- Software updates that have greatly improved the i3's capabilities.
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- Scheduled automatic cleaning is easy to setup in the app.
- Unlike the more expensive Roomba models, it works in the dark. Lights off? curtains closed? No problem.
- Sucks up a lot of dirt, lint, and hair from our floors. Long hair (we have a lot) collects at the ends of his rollers and is easily removed.
- We have 2 steps down from the main level to our family room. It vacuums to the edge, but has never jumped.
- The app isn't needed for a cleaning. For our family room, we don't use the app. We just set it in the room, press the button and away it goes, cleaning in an efficient manner.
- Durable. Sucked up a USB cord and a sun hat string that had been left out on the floor. These items got tangled up, jamming the robot and causing it to shut down, but no damage was done.
- Widely available replacement parts... for a day may a come when his little mustache stops whisking dirt into his big suck face.
CONS
- It took 5 days of assigning it to "clean everywhere" before it accurately mapped our single-story 1500sf home, then allowed me to divide up and label rooms/areas, and the ability to assign it to clean specific rooms.
- It can't clean our whole house in one charge. It goes back to the station recharges itself and then finishes the job.
- The main con is having patience with the robot exploring and the software updates (my experience below). It will take some time for all of the features to become available. Make sure you have strong Wi-Fi signal throughout your house and send the robot out on cleaning runs and the updates will happen.
Software Updates:
- The app and the robot started with limited functionality. After doing a few whole house cleanings over 3 days, it started getting updates and more features were added to the app. It took another few days before it was fully updated and had an accurate floor plan. While it was cleaning it was also doing a lot of exploring, going back over the same areas, pausing to ponder the universe, etc. I think this was part of preparation for the next software update regarding the mapping. After cleaning all accessible areas of my house a few times, a map appeared on the app and asked me if it was accurate or if the robot should remap my house. Some parts of rooms were cut off or shaped weird, but I clicked "accept" anyway. It then prompted me to add/delete partition lines to divide the house up into rooms. The lines can be moved any direction and rotated 360° so you have good control over creating different areas. After doing a few more whole house cleanings the map updated itself and accurately represented our floor plan.
In the end I'm glad we had patience with it. It cleans great now and it's efficient.
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iRobot Roomba i3 EVO Features
Learns Where & When to Clean
Cleans the rooms you want, when you want—guided by Imprint Smart Mapping.
Powers Through Cleaning
Pulls in stubborn messes with a Premium 3-Stage Cleaning System and 10x the Power-Lifting Suction*.
Efficient—and Smart
Cleans in straight lines back and forth, navigating around furniture and obstacles.
Your Voice is Its Command
Start cleaning one room or every room—through the iRobot Home App or by voice with Google Assistant and Alexa compatibility.
How Long Are We Talking Here?
Know how long cleaning jobs will take, whether it’s one room or the whole house—with time estimates in the iRobot Home App.
Now Taking Suggestions…
Offers up scheduling suggestions based on your habits and the season.
Knows Where to Go
With Imprint Link Technology, the Roomba i3+ robot vacuum & Braava jet m6 robot mop team up to vacuum then mop automatically in perfect sequence.
Powered by iRobot OS
iRobot OS raises the bar - delivering an intuitive cleaning experience tailored to your needs and preferences.
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| surface suggestion | Carpet | Carpet & Hard Floors | Carpet,Floor | Hard Floor | Carpet |
| runtime | 75 minutes | — | — | 240 minutes | 120 minutes |
| batteries included | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| battery average life | 75 minutes | 60 days | — | 240 minutes | 120 minutes |
| compatible devices | Smartphones, Tablets, Amazon Echo, Google Home | Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant | Amazon Echo | Amazon Echo, Google Home | Amazon Echo |
| weight | 11 pounds | 15.25 pounds | — | 7.5 pounds | — |
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Powerful. Not perfect but I'll keep it.
I think this one is a keeper. We had bad experiences with a Eufy (after several weeks, suddenly didn't like carpet) and a Trifo (didn't complete the job--"Done with my chores! Returning to base." and sometimes couldn't find the charging base). This iRobot i3 seems to be doing what it's supposed to do, and does it pretty well.As was true of the other devices, installation instructions are poor, just a basic start up card. I had to call support to get it to connect to our Wifi. Got the app installed easily, but the i3 was not an option on the connection choices. I chose the j3 because the device pictured looked most like my i3. Turns out I should have chosen "vacuum" which looks like another iRobot model. Once customer support took me there, installation was simple.From there it's a guess on how to work this thing. I eventually found the app has a subsection on how to work the robot. But I had to stumble across it. The robot wants to be sent out without vacuuming to create a "map" of the area. The first map was distorted and odd shaped, of no value. The second try produced a pretty good picture of our 900 sq ft, 3 rooms plus baths. A bunch of lines were lying around the map and I discovered I could move and rotate them to identify separate rooms. After some additional effort, I found i could name the rooms. Great!Strengths of this robot include pretty strong suction. We've had our area vacuumed regularly--it's about 1/2 carpet and 1/2 hard floor--but this robot is sucking up hunks of hair and stuff that we had left behind. (We have a dog.) Another thing I appreciate is unique twin rubber rollers. Our other robots had a single brush and it got tangled with hair and threads quite easily. It's a pain to cut and pick it off. No cutting/picking with rubber!Another good: the robot runs in straight lines, back and forth. It will do part of a room, leave and do another room, and then come back, starting up where it left off. The other robots moved more at random. The iRobot leaves nice straight paths that look like its been vacuumed. It also goes around furniture as closely as it can. Under furniture if there's room. It will circle a table leg and then go off. It has not gotten caught under kitchen table/chairs like others had.iRobot also has not gotten caught on any cables, toys or clothing. The other robots had frequent difficulty with these things. The i3 just avoids them or rolls over them.So overall, we like!The biggest weakness is short battery life. It will go for maybe 90 minutes or a bit less and then have to return to base to charge. After 45 minutes or so, it comes out and gets back to work. Our 900 sq ft seem to require three or even four separate cleans, with charging in between. So a full cleaning even in our small area can take 4 or more hours.It also will stop if the dust bin is full, which is happening quickly as I said. Big start button on the top lights up red; but look on the app for a message. Eventually I got a dust bin full message when there wasn't all that much visible in the bin. Seeing this twice, I also removed, cleaned and replaced the rubber rollers (which had thread and hair curled around both ends) and this seemed to fix it. So Clean Dust Bin can mean empty the bin or clean the whole thing. Somewhere there is a dust bin sensor that I haven't yet found.Rated 4 overall for short battery life.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2022
Style: Roomba i3Verified Purchase
For the first week of ownership, we were disappointed in the robots random movements, but we had read in other reviews that it needs some time to explore and update itself, so we gave it a chance. The more it explored, the more software updates were downloaded, and the more efficiently it performed. Here are the pros and cons of owning this model:
PROS:
- Software updates that have greatly improved the i3's capabilities.
-
- Scheduled automatic cleaning is easy to setup in the app.
- Unlike the more expensive Roomba models, it works in the dark. Lights off? curtains closed? No problem.
- Sucks up a lot of dirt, lint, and hair from our floors. Long hair (we have a lot) collects at the ends of his rollers and is easily removed.
- We have 2 steps down from the main level to our family room. It vacuums to the edge, but has never jumped.
- The app isn't needed for a cleaning. For our family room, we don't use the app. We just set it in the room, press the button and away it goes, cleaning in an efficient manner.
- Durable. Sucked up a USB cord and a sun hat string that had been left out on the floor. These items got tangled up, jamming the robot and causing it to shut down, but no damage was done.
- Widely available replacement parts... for a day may a come when his little mustache stops whisking dirt into his big suck face.
CONS
- It took 5 days of assigning it to "clean everywhere" before it accurately mapped our single-story 1500sf home, then allowed me to divide up and label rooms/areas, and the ability to assign it to clean specific rooms.
- It can't clean our whole house in one charge. It goes back to the station recharges itself and then finishes the job.
- The main con is having patience with the robot exploring and the software updates (my experience below). It will take some time for all of the features to become available. Make sure you have strong Wi-Fi signal throughout your house and send the robot out on cleaning runs and the updates will happen.
Software Updates:
- The app and the robot started with limited functionality. After doing a few whole house cleanings over 3 days, it started getting updates and more features were added to the app. It took another few days before it was fully updated and had an accurate floor plan. While it was cleaning it was also doing a lot of exploring, going back over the same areas, pausing to ponder the universe, etc. I think this was part of preparation for the next software update regarding the mapping. After cleaning all accessible areas of my house a few times, a map appeared on the app and asked me if it was accurate or if the robot should remap my house. Some parts of rooms were cut off or shaped weird, but I clicked "accept" anyway. It then prompted me to add/delete partition lines to divide the house up into rooms. The lines can be moved any direction and rotated 360° so you have good control over creating different areas. After doing a few more whole house cleanings the map updated itself and accurately represented our floor plan.
In the end I'm glad we had patience with it. It cleans great now and it's efficient.
PROS:
- Software updates that have greatly improved the i3's capabilities.
-
- Scheduled automatic cleaning is easy to setup in the app.
- Unlike the more expensive Roomba models, it works in the dark. Lights off? curtains closed? No problem.
- Sucks up a lot of dirt, lint, and hair from our floors. Long hair (we have a lot) collects at the ends of his rollers and is easily removed.
- We have 2 steps down from the main level to our family room. It vacuums to the edge, but has never jumped.
- The app isn't needed for a cleaning. For our family room, we don't use the app. We just set it in the room, press the button and away it goes, cleaning in an efficient manner.
- Durable. Sucked up a USB cord and a sun hat string that had been left out on the floor. These items got tangled up, jamming the robot and causing it to shut down, but no damage was done.
- Widely available replacement parts... for a day may a come when his little mustache stops whisking dirt into his big suck face.
CONS
- It took 5 days of assigning it to "clean everywhere" before it accurately mapped our single-story 1500sf home, then allowed me to divide up and label rooms/areas, and the ability to assign it to clean specific rooms.
- It can't clean our whole house in one charge. It goes back to the station recharges itself and then finishes the job.
- The main con is having patience with the robot exploring and the software updates (my experience below). It will take some time for all of the features to become available. Make sure you have strong Wi-Fi signal throughout your house and send the robot out on cleaning runs and the updates will happen.
Software Updates:
- The app and the robot started with limited functionality. After doing a few whole house cleanings over 3 days, it started getting updates and more features were added to the app. It took another few days before it was fully updated and had an accurate floor plan. While it was cleaning it was also doing a lot of exploring, going back over the same areas, pausing to ponder the universe, etc. I think this was part of preparation for the next software update regarding the mapping. After cleaning all accessible areas of my house a few times, a map appeared on the app and asked me if it was accurate or if the robot should remap my house. Some parts of rooms were cut off or shaped weird, but I clicked "accept" anyway. It then prompted me to add/delete partition lines to divide the house up into rooms. The lines can be moved any direction and rotated 360° so you have good control over creating different areas. After doing a few more whole house cleanings the map updated itself and accurately represented our floor plan.
In the end I'm glad we had patience with it. It cleans great now and it's efficient.
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Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024
We have 2 dogs and they are constantly shedding on the floor, as well as tracking in dirt and grass from the yard. We liked the idea of it automatically cleaning up after them.
It was extremely easy to setup the app on my phone and the Roomba. The first thing it recommended was to do a mapping run which took about 2 hours because of the square footage and number of rooms on our main floor.
After the mapping run it had no trouble returning to it's home base. I went into the app and edited the room dividers and named the rooms.
We have it scheduled to clean the high traffic areas daily and the whole floor twice a week. I also added it to my Alexa app so we can use voice control as well.
Overall, it a good product for picking up dog hair, grass, and normal debris tracked in from outside. It doesn't have the suction power of our larger vacuum so it doesn't do as well on the area rugs and I would not recommend it for deep cleaning.
Style: Roomba Combo i5Verified Purchase
Great tool for keeping your floors looking nice
Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024
I originally ordered a 692 because I didn't research the difference in the various models. The 692 cleaned in a random manner and had trouble finding it's home base. I returned it and then found that only certain models have the ability to do spatial mapping and actually learn the floor plan of your home. This model was drastically cheaper and had all of the functionality that I wanted.Reviewed in the United States on March 4, 2024
We have 2 dogs and they are constantly shedding on the floor, as well as tracking in dirt and grass from the yard. We liked the idea of it automatically cleaning up after them.
It was extremely easy to setup the app on my phone and the Roomba. The first thing it recommended was to do a mapping run which took about 2 hours because of the square footage and number of rooms on our main floor.
After the mapping run it had no trouble returning to it's home base. I went into the app and edited the room dividers and named the rooms.
We have it scheduled to clean the high traffic areas daily and the whole floor twice a week. I also added it to my Alexa app so we can use voice control as well.
Overall, it a good product for picking up dog hair, grass, and normal debris tracked in from outside. It doesn't have the suction power of our larger vacuum so it doesn't do as well on the area rugs and I would not recommend it for deep cleaning.
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Max Shaw
I love clean floors but I am a very lazy person. I'm happy now.
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