Excellent robot hoover
I am very pleased with this robot hoover, it is working great. The navigation and mapping features work well even though we have a lot of clutter around, at places narrowing the space to navigate to only 50-60 cm. I drove the robot (in remote control mode) around once in all rooms to have the map populated in app on my phone. After that I've set up the invisible walls to lock out certain areas, setup the order of rooms and it was all done. Started the robot, watched it go around (the first 3 times) to see it is coping well overall. Thanks to the underside brush and strong suction it cleans even the carpet at our entrance door, which was always a problem (even when we manually hoover it with a proper mains powered hoover). Despite the suction power it is not as loud as one might expect it (I run it on 'Turbo').
I find cleaning the dust bin a bit tedious, the dust and fluff tends to stick into the filter and it takes a fair bit of time to properly get cleaned out with the included brush (then again it may be not necessary to clean it fully as I do all the time). This is also a testament of the suction power in my opinion.
The only problems so far I've come across were:
It is not able to start where I've placed the dock. This is not an issue with the product, just a bad placement, something I can't address at my place due to all the furniture and clutter. No big deal, as I empty/clean the dust bin just before running the robot anyways. All I need to do is: grab the robot from it's dock, put it in the middle of the room (empty the dust bin) and short press the power button. After that it does it's job perfectly.
It got stuck once on the foot of my wife's chair. The chair has a long almost S shaped wood starting as the feet curving up as armrest and ending as the back support. One day the robot managed to 'climb' onto this wooden foot piece and got stuck as the wood is thick enough to reach the robot's bottom, while the wheels are not longer reaching the ground properly. I've added an invisible wall to where the feet of the chair are and so far there where no further problems (we do not move the chair around obviously).
Overall I am very pleased with this robot hoover, it cleans great, not very loud, takes a lot less time to clean, than my previous robotic hoover.
Before this I only had a Haier T321, which is not the same price bracket and thus not a fair comparison basis, however it is my only prior experience with robotic hoovers. Any comparative statements above would have been against the T321.
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