Mi home Robot vacum reduced in price on alixpress €254 ships

September1 wrote: »

I have next generation (Roborock S50) and I'm very happy.

I been looking at this one as well it appears to have come down in prce as well. How do you find the mopping function?

I have mixed floor types is their a ways through the app to tell it to mop only some parts of the floors?

September1 wrote: »

Yes it sill make sense. Automatic vacuums are about 5 times slower and they they collect about 20% less dirt vs vacuums operated by humans. Think of them as dishwashers, which are also worse then humans - but still nearly everybody has them, as they save us time and effort. In general I find that automatic vacuum would keep even places where is does not clean in better shape, as daily removal of dust from floor will prevent it from coming somewhere else.

I would have said 10% less dirt versus manual vacuum and just slightly slower depending on the make. That's why I have set for two cleans a day.

The mi robot maps the layout of the room and breaks the area up and cleans systematically so it does not miss areas or give over the same ground again. Some of cheaper ones including the roomba`s just go in straight line until they hit something and keep doing this until the battery is dead.

My wife thought it was going to be a waste of money took a couple months to convenience her. But after a month of use she said if it did break down to get another one asap. The the closest I get to her saying she was wrong.

Rennaws wrote: »

We loved it but it wouldn’t return to its base and the support were too slow to come back to me. After 48 hours I boxed it up and sent it back.

I had it for a few weeks though and it did a great job cleaning. The main reason I wanted something different this time was to get something with intelligent mapping as i think this is a critical feature for a through clean.



Well spotted.. I meant €378..

The maker of mi robot cleaner is a company called Xiaomi. Who are relatively big manufacture in China. Not a couple lads in the back of the shed. They just taken tec and improve on it. I see that three started selling their phones, fitness band and electric scooter.

The roborock is newer version were Xiaomi and roborock developed it together but because of half liter water tank its taller so would not get under some of my presses. It uses the same mapping technology and sensors. And was €500 plus last year but at €350 is also a good price.

The robot is smart enough to get back to dock. I used to put things in way to see if I could confuse it. But it always got back to the dock. It stops cleaning at 20% battery to go back to charge. But never experienced this as my house is small. I do have a 2cm threshold in one room and it gets over it no problems.

The app tells you when clean the filters and sensors. Replacement parts are on eBay and aliexpress. Only replaced the hepa filter after 9 months usage and side rush after a year. Replacement kits are around €20 on Ali you get 2 side brushes 2 hepa filters and 1 mainbrush bar. ( yet to replaced).

Pay €80 more on Amazon for warranty is option. But anyone fence for me it made my life easier and like washing machine will never be without one.

Re dogs eating it. I don't have a dog so maybe somelse can advise. But friend got one with cats and they love riding on it! And does good job with hairs.