Robot Vacuum Cleaners - are they worth it?

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https://shop.irobot.co.uk/irobot-roomba-698/R698040.html?lang=enGB&&ga=2.146045936.531158569.1602587436-2095904618.1578501890&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwfiuwI-29QIVzMLtCh1I2gNZEAQYASABEgKiZvDBwE

Seen the above and am thinking of purchasing mainly due to the fact that I'm sick of constantly sweeping up bits and having dark wood floors every bit really shows up.

So my questions are:

1. Do they work?
2. Can they cope with dog hair? (This accounts for 80% of sweeping up in the summer)
3. Apart from the one I've linked to, are there other recommendations? (nothing over £500)

Tia

@Ahalam

I have a eufy and I really don’t love it. It’s erratic where it cleans, doesn’t clean rugs as well as a roomba, staggers to its home when it’s had enough but doesn’t actually align with the charger so I keep discovering it’s not charged when I want it to clean and have just stacked all the chairs and stools up out of its way.

I need to rearrange furniture to stop her getting stuck. And hunt for charger cables and shoe laces as she fights with those.

Between all that and emptying the dust bin and cleaning her filter and untangling the hairs out of her brushes, it doesn’t feel any easier than getting out the big hoover which actually gets all the corners clean without giving cheek.

I can live with hoovering about once a week but if you are an every day/twice a day person I can see how it would be worthwhile.

I love that your eufy 'gives cheek'. We talk to ours and send rescue parties out when he gets into bother! Still love him though

I love my Eufy. He deals with two long haired people and a fluffy cat. He goes under sofas and beds. Keeps the dust down. Doesn’t moan. Occasionally alerts me to something he’s tangled up in.

For the price he’s fantastic. Much better than high maintenance dyson.

We bought two during lockdown (1) when everyone was home and creating mess that I resented clearing up twice daily.

Our floors are a combination of wood and tiles. Very little carpet. Lots of pet hair and everything gets really dusty, which shows up the minute the sun hits. I send our eufys out pretty much every day to do a quick sweep - one upstairs and one downstairs. Some days are better than others - they do sometimes miss bits - but it keeps the general levels of floor dust and hair down so that I only need to vacuum properly with the industrial strength Miele once or twice a week. Before that I was vacuuming pretty much daily with the stupid dyson cordless that couldn't even pick up a pea!

iRobot roomba and a mopping one.

Love them to bits. Life changing stuff. Send them out at night and then again with the kids bugger off to school. Makes me so happy

I love ours, it's a Samsung that does mopping too. Our house is tiles and carpet. Three of us have long hair and we have a long-haired cat. It cleans perfectly everytime.

I put ours on daily.

Has anyone updated Eufy with the custom voice pack? You can record your own voice ( or soundbites from films)
Amongst other voice changes mine now plays an happy song when finished & burps on returning to the charging station. I have G30 not sure if it's in all of them.

I have a Ultenic Vac/Mop (with a self empty dock) and it is excellent.

I have one dog (Breed known for shedding) and three cats. My floors are a mix of carpets and hard floors and it works brilliantly across both. It has a timer and I have it so it sets off every morning at 4AM so the floor is all tidy when I come down in the morning.

It super smart, builds maps, does systematic cleaning rather than the chaos theory bumping about style and you can select areas to go over a few times or re mop. Avoids obstacles on the floor.

10/10 would buy again.

Another Eufy fan - with two cats and a dog, it's a gamechanger.
I send it round while I'm having a cup of tea. We have a step between our kitchen & the rest of the ground floor which means I do have to intervene and move it once it's done one area, & it occasionally needs rescuing from the living room rug if it approaches from the wrong angle.
I actually have two now - a 15C Max & a G30 Hybrid.
The hoovering function on both is great & it's amazing how much fluff and dust it picks up. The mopping function on the Hybrid isn't brilliant as it says you can't add floor cleaner to it (I ignore this and add a few drops of disinfectant to the water reservoir though).
With pets it's great for a quick clean up of muddy pawprints. It doesn't really get up any dried on marks that you'd have to scrub at with a mop or cloth. I tend to use it for a quick clean up between a proper mop.

I got a bargain from Amazon...an OPK life one, it had a good wodge off it for some reason and I am thrilled with it. It does random/edge/spot cleaning, has a remote, talks to google once you have navigated the app

We have two cats and a very hairy dog and hard floors, it whips round the edges with its little feelers. Occasionally it will wedge itself in the bay behind the dining table, but it beeps sadly to be rescued, also it's not keen to return to base, but I think that's my fault as I tend to pick it up and traipse about the house with it, but I think it is getting better now it's working with google.

I think I could schedule it to go wild down here when it was home alone, but I do worry about the dog poo scenario, also the cats are suspicious, and besides it's hardly a hardship to "hey Google" it.
It's not that noisy either, reassuringly busy sort of hum.

The dog quite likes it, as it finds his lost toys from under the sofa....you hear a bit of clattering and then the dog comes through triumphantly with his lost boney or tennis ball.

It's not that good on carpet regarding the dog hair, but there's only carpet in the one room upstairs ...and that's not staying so once I have redone that I can let him loose upstairs too.

I generally hate hoovering though and always have had hard floors, so usually it's a long handled dustpan and brush and a mop affair. Having the robot does mean there's fewer "shock horror" moments when you move stuff and find giant tumbleweed drifts, cos he goes under things and not just round the edges like I did!