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    iRobot Roomba 980 Robot Vacuum with Wi-Fi Connectivity, Works with Alexa, Ideal for Pet Hair, Carpets, Hard Floors

    • Best thing I have ever bought
    • It is the best thing to ever happen to this Mama of 3 toddlers
    • If the D7 were available when I bought my 980, I definitely would have gone with the D7.I'm extremely disappointed in this model primarily because this thing creates more work than it solves
    • This thing is awesome
    • This thing is awesome
    • I didn't have great expectations about how well this thing would actually clean.
    • This thing is amazing
    • Dog toys, children's items, things of that nature WILL jam things up and stop the robot, but so far haven't damaged it.
    • you have more important things to do with your time, a Roomba is worth it
    • Thank goodness she was "smart enough" to stop and call out an error before things got really bad
    • This is the best thing ever
    • This thing is loud
    • True, Stan doesn't dust or clean countertops, but frankly, the thing that was bothering us the most (every day) was the dirt and hair from our two shedding dogs (golden retriever, border collie) who are in-and-out all the time.
    • I work some crazy hours and the last thing I want to do is come home and vacuum the house!
    • The weird thing is that it seems to be learning the layout of our house and is becoming fairly predictable when you turn it loose
    • This thing is really expensive
    • cool!The two bad things (and its no fault of Roomba for this one) is that I have a thick area rug that it can not get up on.
    • The only thing I would say to be careful of is heavy objects that are precariously balanced
    • The most important thing is it gives me more time to spend with my kids
    • Love this thing
    • Best thing we’ve spent money on in a long time
    • I even enjoy using the Dyson as the important thing is the revolving brush that really gets out the hairs etc
    • We buy these things to clean our floors, and I have found the 980 does a more thorough job on both the carpet and on our hardwood (and tile) floors
    • It is a fantastic thing to come home to a spotless house
    • We have two German Shepherds and this does loads to help keep things clean in between regular vacuuming (That doesn't happen as regular as it should)
    • I like things tidy and clean, but man do I hate sweeping floors.
    • This thing is the best ever
    • These things are SUPER easy to do and not a nuisance at all (like it is with my regular vac).
    • These things are SUPER easy to do and not a nuisance at all (like it is with my regular vac).
    • My floors have to be vacuumed daily to keep things tidy
    • This is the best thing I have got for my wife in a long time
    • The nice thing was I was able to grab my phone, change to the quieter eco-mode and noise went away
    • You cannot watch TV while this thing is on nearby without cranking the volume up so loud that my neighbors 2 doors down can also hear it
    • With enough lighting in the rooms (preferably natural lighting if you like being green) these things are great
    • Roomba 980 best thing since sliced bread.
    • She passed out from exhaustion with a depleted battery and a bin that was stuffed to the gills (I later found a setting in the app that allows her to go back to the dock and let me know when she's full rather than to keep going until she was ready to burst, poor thing).So, back up a bit, we have an angel Border Collie (perfect in every way except she drops drifts of hair which can be pretty horrifying in a kitchen with light tile).
    • This thing really works
    • It also does stupid things
    • All the things you have read in other reviews are accurate.
    • It does really crazy things too
    • The dog completely ignores this Roomba while it's doing its thing - which is pretty impressive because he attacks pretty much any regular vacuum
    • we've been using it now for over 2 weeks, and so far i have to say both my wife and i are impressed with how well this damn thing cleans-the extra suction on carpet is pretty impressive
    • The only odd thing is, I have a geometric-patterned rug in my home office, and it only cleans each individual square in the design.
    • I am always surprised at how much crap and hair this thing sucks up on a bi-weekly basis
    • Best thing ever invented
    • As with any modern technology, there's some things to like and some things that make you scratch your head on what they were thinking
    • My wife went out of her way to tell me it's the best thing I ever bought
    • Like the little plastic things that only price tags in clothes completely disable this thing
    • Everyday I empty the full trash bin that is FULL of hair after every use!I like to make sure cords and things it can get hung up on are out of the way prior to running it
    • I am telling you, this robot is the most amazing thing ever
    • Thing is just amazing.
    • This thing is great!!
    • This is one of the best things I
    • I love this thing, it takes some getting use to, I had to start remembering to clear things like bar stools out of its way on days that it was going to clean so that it would get the area under
    • If you live in a small apartment or house, 600-1000sqft i say this thing is perfect for you
    • But anyway, this thing is AWESOME
    • On the other hand, there are a lot of good things
    • This thing is awesome
    • D) bumper car mode, it bumps things to see if it moves, then cleans around it by bumping it (whilst not great for dog bowl)E) handle cables - tackling a USB charger cable is funny to watch - the irobot does a dance in different directions to escape,F) doesn't fall down stairs
    • This thing is amazing and so worth the $900
    • This thing is truly amazing
    • The Roomba changes its settings automatically when transitioning from tile to carpet, and does a GREAT job on BOTH!One of the best things is the LINES
    • If I can get this thing to clean toilets and cook once a week my wife is outta here.
    • Again, overall, I like this thing
    • But this thing is great
    • My recommendation is, get the extended warranty, because there are so many working parts and things that could go wrong, it's worth it.
    • This little thing cleans surprisingly well!!
    • The only bad thing is the filters cost between $20 and $25 for three and, even though I clean them out after every use, I still need to change them fairly frequently
    • The most annoying thing about this device is that you have to frequently dump the bin because it gets full pretty quickly
    • and I couldn't keep up with the hair using a dust mop daily, which was the best thing I had found to manage it in the past
    • This thing is amazing
    • well the darn thing works and works well!
    • I'd love for it to run daily on a schedule, but I have 2 cats who seem to confuse the thing with just hair
    • well the darn thing works and works well!
    • The only bad thing I have to say about it is that my crawling baby has pushed it off of it’s charging station a couple of times
    • It's the best thing in the world for hardwood floors and stained concrete floors, just amazing!
    • This thing is freaking awesome
    • I though we did a good thing to buy them together
    • I have kids and indoor pets and this thing keeps my floors spotless.
    • The thing cleans and does a great job with the random pet dustballs that are frequent around my home.
    • It took me a few months to warm up to the idea (my parents may or may not think that this was a super lazy thing to do
    • With 2 big labs will use are dyson all the time, so far the Roomba has kept up and our carpets are cleaning then they have even been, Can not say enough good things about the
    • I LOVE THIS THING
    • it's routine this time (this is a good thing!)
    • The only unpleasant thing about it is that it's loud, but I have to keep remembering that it's a vacuum.
    • This thing is AWESOME
    • One negative thing I do have to say is that it’s very very loud
    • The bin was FULL on the first run which tells me that this thing is powerful as I had just had the carpets cleaned professionally two days before.6
    • This thing is amazing
    • This Roomba is easily one of my most favorite things that I own.
    • This thing is seriously amazing
    • Almost never: this thing is good at getting around!9
    • It is very good at picking up pet hair, dirt on the floor, it may miss some things your vacuum would pick up, but our floors are much cleaner
    • Overall the thing cleans pretty well but putting up with a contrary vacuum cleaner isn't on my list of things I have time to tolerate
    • Yet despite all that, this thing struggles to navigate the upstairs of our home
    • All I have to do make sure things are picked up (like little kids toys), curtains are lifted off the ground before it cleans, then during I have to empty it once or twice (I have a 3400sq ft house) and have it charge
    • I love this thing!
    • One thing I'd like to see as perhaps an update to the app side, is to be able to view a map of where Roomba has been in the house.
    • The damn thing works way better than you think
    • Best thing I have ever bought
    • I love the thing!
    • When we empty the dust bin and replace it, we move out of the way because Roomba immediately moves out and goes back to finish the job!One of the great things about Roomba is that the app has settings.
    • I can't believe how much dust and dirt this thing finds
    • Forces you to keep things a little tidier and off the floors so it can do it's job.
    • Wow wow wow this thing is better than my dyson
    • The damn thing works way better than you think
    • With the iRobot app, the most powerful thing that this lets you do is run your robot from wherever you are.
    • This thing is awesome
    • So far I’m loving this thing.
    • I LOVE THIS THING BEYOND BELIEF
    • This is the best thing I have ever bought!
    • Those things are nice, but you don't really need them to enjoy a Roomba
    • but it's almost comical the things they could have included but left out
    • Unless the thing dusted too.
    • best thing I ever bought
    • I feel better knowing that is going in the trash and not on my floor!Other than emptying the bin, this thing is virtually maintenance free.
    • I upgraded from the 880 and this thing is awesome
    • This thing is amazing.
    • Love this thing.
    • As part of the renovation, I thought I'd give the Roomba a try, thinking that with tile floors throughout this would help keep things relatively clean.
    • It took me a few months to warm up to the idea (my parents may or may not think that this was a super lazy thing to do
    • I really did try to like this thing, if you have only hard floors then get it, but if your apartment is like mine with thick shag carpets... don't buy
    • I love the thing though
    • This thing is great!
    • This thing is awesome
    • This is the greatest thing ever
    • This thing is amazing.
    • It's the best thing in the world for hardwood floors and stained concrete floors, just amazing!
    • And the one good thing about being "wireless" is that it can update itself as better software comes available
    • This is SUCH an improvement over the old roombas that would be disgusting underneath after a few runs and would take like 15 minutes to clean the hair and crap out of their brushes(gross).Any way, this thing is AMAZING.
    • but I love this thing!!
    • It makes vacuuming and doing other things at the same time, so much easier.
    • This is the greatest thing since peanut butter
    • Has made my cleaning routine SO much quicker - pet-hair tumbleweeds are a thing of the past, and so much less dust
    • This is the best thing I've ever owned
    • A few things to keep in mind, though: Roomba works much better if you've picked up the floor and things are fairly uncluttered
    • But this thing is far better than I could ever have imagined it
    • As for cleaning ability, this thing is spectacular
    • So far VERY surprised how well this thing works!
    • Yet, the thing still broke on me
    • This thing is fun to
    • This thing is awesome at a 300$ price point
    • Doesn't miss any thing it may go over the same place twice but does a great job!!!
    • The sad thing is I can't recommend this product to anyone
    • If that improves, it's an easy thing to program him for less frequency.
    • I didn't want to over work this thing, so I vacuumed and did what I thought was a thorough job
    • Good thing when you buy the Nieto it comes with 3 filters so that should last me 1.5 years
    • This thing is amazing!!
    • Only con is it gets stuck easily on dumb things.
    • Gets around and under things great.
    • Wow, this thing does it all
    • One thing that I don't like is, very loud
    • Like the little plastic things that only price tags in clothes completely disable this thing
    • This thing is amazing.
    • This thing is awesome!
    • I SHOULD LIVE WITH my Hemroids!Do not recommed this!Save your money for the next best thing.
    • This thing works tirelessly, extremely thorough.
    • This thing is great.
    • we've been using it now for over 2 weeks, and so far i have to say both my wife and i are impressed with how well this damn thing cleans-the extra suction on carpet is pretty impressive
    • Due to the times I had to clear things and move it out of the way from things it didn't find its way back automatically
    • More edges you have, more it tries to clean around it, (that's a good thing) but also means runs out of battery
    • This thing works amazing
    • We have a ranch with approximately 2000 square feet on the main floor, so this thing is ideal.
    • Must say I really do love this thing
    • love this thing
    • This thing is amazing
    • Look, this thing generally works
    • This thing is an absolute miracle
    • This thing is AMAZING!!
    • This thing is INSANELY amazing
    • there's the possibility that, while cleaning/clearing the error, you accidentally reset the thing, and then it starts all over from the beginning.
    • I had read good things about the suction power and pet hair capabilities of the 980, and it did not disappoint
    • I'd like to see a button on the app that immediately stops the machine where it is (so I can take a phone call).So, if you dont have animals, this is probably a really cool thing to have
    • HE WAS RIGHT.I love this thing.
    • And when it works it saves me a lot of time I can use for doing better things
    • First off, the price is pretty high however I will say that this thing is WAY worth the money
    • cool!The two bad things (and its no fault of Roomba for this one) is that I have a thick area rug that it can not get up on.
    • Love this thing
    • These things are not cheap, but to have a robot be able to vacuum my entire 4-level house (with the exception of stairs), is a life changer and is saving me hours of time, plus I would never clean as thoroughly as he does.
    • I work some crazy hours and the last thing I want to do is come home and vacuum the house!
    • Dog toys, children's items, things of that nature WILL jam things up and stop the robot, but so far haven't damaged it.
    • I can't say enough good things about this vacuum
    • Then after a few more updates, things got worse
    • This thing is amazing
    • I left the basement for better things, and when I returned after an hour, I was hoping the Roomba would be sitting on its base charging
    • one of smartest things we ever did
    • This little thing is truly amazing.
    • This is a first review I've ever posted (not in my character), but this thing is horrible
    • This Thing Really Works.
    • Its expensive, but for a busy family it is great to keep things somewhat tidy
    • Add a sensor so it can find its way out of dark because the camera is useless, or equip the poor thing with a side arm so it can hold its own flashlight.2.
    • It's not perfect, but this thing is super smart - amazing in fact - and as close to being perfect as possible.
    • Occasionally, it just looses its mind and does things like clean the same area of hallway over and over until the battery runs out
    • I forgot to get up a rug that has the fringe on it, but shockingly, this thing did not get tangled up in it.
    • (I've emptied the damn thing: it's not that full, yo.)I want my robot to *run* every day, and have *some* effect, even if it's a minor, inefficient effect, even when I forget to empty it
    • Wow, this thing Sucks
    • It crazy to watch how smart this thing is
    • Greatest thing I've bought this year.
    • We love this little thing
    • Love this thing!!
    • This thing works great.
    • I absolutely love this thing
    • I love this thing
    • So, she agreed that maybe it wasn't a bad idea to run this 2-3 times a week in between the Dyson to keep things cleaner/fresher
    • i'd like to know when it's going home, when it gets stuck on a shoelace, when the bin is full, things like that
    • if you coy see through the camera on your phone (prior to their image processing)One nice thing, it handles cords correctly, rarely if ever gets hung up
    • This little guy just roams around under my bed and under furniture I could never fit the regular vacuum under and takes care of all of it!*The downsides to this device are that sometimes it does get stuck on things or randomly bump things harder than it should
    • Still trying to work things out with it.
    • The only thing I do not like is I do had a fluffy area rug and Roomba will not clean that rug as it acts as a corner
    • The raising and lowering feature is a great thing too - one of our doors has a higher threshold than our other rooms, and our 790 occasionally got stuck on it.
    • (I guess because it thinks its home base is there).This thing has tons of other features that you can read about in all the other reviews (all the sensors, phone features, cleaning instruments, etc), but for our house - this thing does a terrific
    • I can't say enough good things about the Roomba 980.
    • My wife thinks it is the best thing since sliced bread
    • This thing is amazing
    • (This could be a great thing to those who have high pile carpet...roomba will not have issue.)So for the remaining rooms, off it goes.
    • Best thing I have ever bought for my home
    • always looked like the thing went on a drunken adventure
    • The maximum best thing is it happily runs under beds and dressers and tables, places I never vacuum under unless its immediately reachable
    • Bumps on the walls and stuff all the time to make sure it remembers thing right
    • It's not perfect and mine has problems sometime getting back to the charger to recharge itself,and it has absolutely no respect for the "invisible barriers" devices that come with it, but overall the thing is awesome
    • This dumb thing does not deserve even one start I have given to it
    • This thing works amazing from your phone too
    • Worst thing is when after charging for ninety bloody minutes and having taken an hour and half to clean the first round, you expect it to resume properly and just get the job done by vacuuming the remaining rooms
    • I can't say enough great things about this vacuum
    • This thing is great.
    • With serious back problems, any help to keep things clean is appreciated especially living with Pugs who shed like buffaloes
    • This is a bad thing because we have a full blooded German Shepherd that every day sheds (it seems) her entire coat
    • The other thing I LOVE about little guy is it cleans the area rugs
    • First things first: it sucks
    • I seriously don't care if I have to carry it to the smaller rooms in the least, whatever it needs, I will buy or give it because this thing is amazing
    • Love this thing!!!
    • while I was home - I still don't 'trust' machines as much to not ruin things in my
    • it even leaves the nice little brush lines/rows in the carpet, for OCD people who love that kinda thing
    • My granddaughter's favorite thing to play with is her sand table on the back deck and mine is my Roomba
    • best thing i have ever done cleans like a maide
    • Wow, this thing Sucks
    • Wow....this thing is great
    • It's learned the entire floor plan, but doesn't want to learn where it gets stuck; two inches to the left and this thing would be perfect.
    • I love this thing and my two Saints don't really mind it
    • But after used it everyday for a week (after making our apt roomba safe), its one of the best new things she’s ever gotten.
    • Last thing: The instruction manual is worthless as are online forums or Roomba's website
    • this thing is perfect
    • But if you can keep everything up off the ground, this thing is awesome and well worth the money
    • The only good thing I can say about it is that if it gets to an area then it does a decent job and cleans pretty well
    • the thing is that it still works perfecty on the hard floor
    • I don't consider this a bad thing because it forces me to have a clear floor mentality around my home and roomba makes sure to keep the clean floor
    • This thing is amazing!
    • This thing sucks
    • I usually only write reviews about things I hate, but I love this thing so much I have to write a review
    • This is one of the best things I've seen
    • Unbelievable how well this thing works!
    • Love love love this —have back trouble and this was amazing keeping things clean
    • i love this thing
    • n’t take 6hours to fully clean my 2 bedroom home
    • n’t had the 980 clog like that yet
    • and NOW THEY WON"T RESPOND, because it's
    • n’t want to be blowing this stuff in your house or garage
    • n’t work at all