newest irobot roomba Combo Review

Combo is the first mop by iRobot and vacuum robot. It's also the most attractive. The top piece of brushed aluminum and iRobot logo are more sophisticated than the blaring designs of competitors.

The irobot mopping robot Home application is used to guide and set up your robot. The app collects data on usage and maps of your house including furniture and obstructions. Maps and images are only shared when you have signed up.

It's a mop

The Combo Irobot is a intelligent mopping robot that has all the smarts of the fantastic Roomba j7+ and adds an onboard water reservoir, a tiny mopping pad, and a handy robot arm that raises and lowers the pad. It can do a great amount of work in only 111 minutes, before it runs out of power and returns to its base station to recharge.

The model that comes with the irobot store Home app so that you can start or stop cleaning runs. The robot is also attractive with a matte black material that does not show dust or fingerprints and a brushed aluminium top piece with small iRobot Logo.

It's a great vacuum cleaner, and it does not have any trouble crossing large areas of carpet or transition strips between flooring surfaces. It is able to pick up fine dust that other robotic vacuums miss. It's not the best Irobot vacuum And mop at mowing. It can't obliterate dried milk stains, like unless you've sent it out four or five times.

iRobot's dedicated Braava Jet M6 mopping robot, which is available as a bundle with the j7 Plus often for less than the combo Combo and performs much better in this, and other difficult tasks. It can also clean up ketchup and wine spills, but I would not recommend it following any liquids that have a high amount of sugar.

It's a vacuum

It's also among the better-looking robot vacuums, with a smooth top piece that doesn't display dust and fingerprints as easily as other models. Its tiny combo water tank and dustbin are easy to open and close but they're not the most efficient in terms of capacity. The Combo j7+ also has the same smarts you'd expect from iRobot with features like map and obstacle avoidance maps that work reliably and quickly. The mopping arm is what makes this model stand out in its category. The mop pad is kept on the top of the robot vacuum. However, if it detects a surface which needs mopping, the pad is lowered underneath and behind the robotic vacuum. This is a major improvement from other robot vacuums that require you to manually remove the mop pad in order to mop hard floors and carpets, or even turn the entire unit off for mopping.

It's an electric charging station

When you're ready to charge your Combo Irobot, simply place it on the changing station and align its metal contacts to those on the base. The charging station works well and is simple to set up. In my tests it took the robot a few moments to charge, and then it made an audible sound when it was completed. When the Combo robot is charged, you can begin mapping runs on the app to help the robot better comprehend your home. You can also mark certain items such as lamp cords as permanent avoidances in the app. You can also connect Alexa or Google Assistant to your robot so that you can use the voice commands to navigate around the house.

It's a smart device

Combo irobots use acoustic sensors and onboard cameras to determine the kind of floor they are cleaning, and also the objects in your home. This information is combined with images from the robot's onboard camera as well as maps of your home to create a customized plan for cleaning every room. This allows it to be smart enough to avoid your sofa, lamp cords and other items you want to keep intact. Of course, as with any connected device there are questions about the security of this data. iRobot however, claims that it will not sell any customer data and will not take any images without the consent of the customers.