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Technical Details
- Vacuuming robot picks up dirt and debris with the touch of a button- Easy-to-empty bagless dustbin; fine-filtration system traps allergens
- Anti-tangle technology; gentle-touch bumper system; built-in cliff sensors
- Self-charging Home Base, 2 Virtual Wall Lighthouses, an extra filter, and more included
- Measures 16-3/4 by 21 by 5 inches; 1-year limited warranty
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By chartnpr
It is an idea that could revolutionize cleaning yet iRobot 560 isn't nearly as smart, foolproof or easy to use as advertised. It gets caught on rugs with pads under them, bumps into furniture quite hard, manages to tangle itself in an errant power or phone cord and most frustratingly, requires cleaning after every use - something no other vacuum requires. I am greatly disappointed and would like to return it!
By Brandeline (United States)
We actually bought the 562 pet series from Hammacher because it had an extra second larger size bin and Hammacher gives a lifetime warranty on it, but this model is otherwise very similar to the one we bought. Ours has been in the house about two weeks now and our four little hair shedding machines are wondering what happened to all their hard work furring up the house.
We used to vacume with our upright, empty the dust chamber, (messy job!) vacume again, and still have a full dust receptacle again 5 minutes later. It wasn't a job we were very enthusiastic about at all. Now that we have Holly (yeah, we named ours too!) roaming the house, the floors are just spotless! It took most of the first week for the build-up of hair to get picked up enough so that we didn't have to clean the brushes several times in a session, but now that the worst of it is taken care of, we may not have to clean the brushes at all during a single session. In spite of how clean the floors LOOK to the naked eye now, it's still finding plenty of dirt and hair each day to clean.
It hasn't done too badly with being caught in things. Unlike others, we haven't really had problems with ours and cords. The only thing it's been caught up on so far was the end of the curtains, and a sheet that was hanging off the bed. It's put one wheel off the edge of the stairs a couple times too, and has complained it needed to be moved away from the edge. Once it got caught on the edge of the rug that folded up in front of it, but otherwise it seems able to get around on it's own pretty good. Also, it's darn cute scooting about doing it's thing!
The brushes haven't really struck us as too hard to clean either now that the hair load is more manageable in the house. We find mostly, it needs the hair pulled off the end pieces and bushings.
The battery recharges fairly quickly, and we've run it downstairs in the morning, charged it, and run it upstairs in the afternoon frequently. Our house will never have dirty floors again! Love it!
By Jude Allred
It's a vacuum with a set of wheels controlled by a random number generator. As such, it's a wonderful little device if you run it frequently, but it has difficulty fully replacing a normal vaccuum.
By G. SINCLAIR (Tacoma, WA)
i have had this model for about 9 months now (i also have the 530 model) and i've not had any problems with it. believe it or not, i got mine from big lots for $150.00!! so shop around, folks!!
ok, for starters, i have 2 indoor cats and anyone with pets knows the ridiculous amount of fur that can and does accumulate throughout your home if you're not careful! well, this has been an absolute lifesaver for me. i LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the fact that it can easily maneuver underneath my bed where my cats like to hang out sometimes.
i have not had any docking problems like those seen by another reviewer. when my roomba is finished, it returns to the docking station to charge and is ready to go again in a few hours.
note: you will need to clean roomba after almost every use if you have indoor pets that shed a lot like i do. not a problem, cleaning is easy and quick. empty the bin, empty the tray where the filter is and clean the brushes! voila, done!
my advice would be to purchase additional filters and brushes when they are on sale if you can find them. you will need them eventually.
the only reason i don't give this a 5 star review is that roomba has a tendency to not get into corners really well and it also pushes dirt around on hard floors instead of picking it up sometimes. besides that, it works like a charm, docks when done, and rarely gets "grounded" on something that it cant get over or around. the battery life isn't wonderful, but it cleans (with the exception of corners) pretty well and i run both about 3-4 times a week sometimes more to keep the kid's fur to a minimum.
By Philip L. Derry (Sacramento, CA)
I have had a Roomba for about 4 years now and would I purchase another one? No. It does a fairly good job of cleaning surface dirt. But there are 2 problems with it. It gets hung up on chair legs (the type that forms a "U" going from leg to leg) I had to put some pipe insulation on the legs to raise the chair up so the vacuum would bounce off it as apposed to riding over it. Not really a big deal in the long run. But the BIG problem is battery life. As with so many items that I purchase, I have to ask myself; what will it cost to feed this item? The problem in this area of course is that we usually don't know when it come to battery life. This pisses me off to the n'th degree. I'm in the home improvement business, and so many of my tools are battery powered. Have you seen the price of NiCads or Lithiums? You might just as well buy a new tool as apposed to replacing the battery. The worst in that regard is Skill - the batteries last just 6 months. In the case of the roomba - 1 year. So here's the deal; Are you willing to spend $69.00 every year? I did it twice. The first year I had roomba run every day. The second year I had it run twice a week. No difference, it still lasted only a year. Do they have the technology to make the batteries last longer? You bet they do! When was the last time you had to replace your rechargeable electric toothbrush? I have had 1 of mine for 11 years and another for 16.
Suggestion? Buy a Dyson and plug it in the wall. What a great vacuum!
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