iRobot Combo Review

Combo is iRobot's first mop-and-vacuum robot, and it's also the company's best-looking. Its brushed aluminum top piece and iRobot logo are more elegant than the loud designs of rivals.

You can use the iRobot Home app to set up and guide your robot. The app collects data on usage and maps of your home including furniture and obstructions. Maps and information about images are only shared if you have signed up.

It's a mop

The Combo Irobot is a intelligent mopping robot that has all the features of the great Roomba J7+ and adds an on-board water reservoir, a tiny mopping pad, and a clever robot arm that raises and lowers the pad. It can accomplish quite a bit of work in 111 minutes before running out of juice and returning to its base station to recharge.

The model comes with the iRobot home app, meaning you can initiate and stop cleaning runs. It's also a nice-looking robot, with matte black plastic that doesn't show dust or fingerprints and the top piece of aluminum is brushed with an encircling iRobot Robot Vacuums: Effortless Cleaning for Any Home logo.

It's a great vacuum cleaner, and it has no trouble crossing over large carpets or the transition strips between flooring surfaces. It's also able to pick up fine dust that other robotic vacuums miss. It's not very good in mowing. It won't remove dried milk stains, unless you've sent it four or five times.

irobot vacuum cleaner and mop's dedicated Braava jet M6 mopping robotic cleaner, which is usually offered in a bundle with the j7 plus for less than the combo Combo is a superior job in this and other tasks that are difficult. It's even able to clean up spilled wine and ketchup, though I'd advise against using it in the presence of liquid that has a high sugar content.

It's a vacuum

It's also one of the most attractive robot vacuums, with a smooth, rounded top that doesn't display dust and fingerprints as easily as other models. The tiny water tank and dustbin of this vacuum are easy to open, however they're not the biggest. The Combo J7+ also has the smarts you would expect from iRobot including maps and obstacle avoidance mapping that operates effectively and swiftly. The mopping arm is the thing that makes this model stand out in its class. The mop pad is kept on the top of the robot vacuum. However, if it spots a surface that requires mopping the pad is dropped under and www.Robotvacuummops.com behind the robot vacuum. This is a significant improvement over other robot vacuums that require users to manually remove the mop pad for hard floors and carpets or even turn the entire machine off to mop.

It's an electric charging station

When you're ready to charge your Combo Irobot, simply place it on the charging station and align its metal contacts with the ones on the base. The charging station is easy to set up and operates well. In my tests, it took the robot just a few minutes to charge, and then it made a noise when it was completed. After the Combo robot is fully charged you can start an exploration run in the app to help the robot better understand 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 your home.

It's a smart device

Combo irobots utilize acoustic and onboard sensors to learn about the type of floor it's encountering, as well as the objects in your home. This information is paired with images from the robot’s onboard camera as well as maps of your home to create a customized plan to clean each room. This allows it to be smart enough to stay clear of your lamp cords, sofas and other items you want to keep intact. Of course, like any device that is connected, there are concerns about the security of this data. But iRobot affirms that it will never sell customer data and that all images are taken with customers' permission.