I could spend hours watching at work.

I could spend hours watching at work.

iRobot Roomba 770 vacuum cleaning robot (household goods)

Customer Review

But then I verplempere meaningless the beautiful gift that he makes me time.

I have long pondered whether I use the phrase from Star Trek (... To Boldly Go Where No vacuum cleaner has gone before.) Or rather with Loriot "It sucks and blows the Heinzelmann ..." to strive, but I let both away because the little helper is to take very seriously.
The iRobot Roomba 770 comes in a discreet box is ready for use in minutes using Quick Start, and can then turn its first laps around the cozy home while you're reading the detailed yet compact manual alone.
Staff will then, as timer controlled - preferably overnight or during the day when there is time comfortable place - must do the dirty work, How to set the internal clock and teach him German for voice output.
The batteries were fully charged already in my copy, and so I let him start with the same work.

First Impression:
Seemingly haphazard runs Roomba until he offends somewhere. Against walls he slows down noticeably, chair or table legs are sometimes hit a little harder. With longer observation, you realize, however, that he has a plan. He drives around obstacles rather cleverly, and, thanks to its flat design, even under the bed and anyway anywhere where even the conventional vacuum cleaner reach. Putting him in the middle of a large room, his tactics revealed: He starts in a spiral, and then visited every nook and cranny. And he does his job really well.
A trail of cleanliness could be seen on the first visit under our bed, and he hung around quite a while there. Allegedly, he noted namely, where it is particularly necessary durchzuputzen times.
If one wants to curb him, pressing the illuminated button in the middle or on the included remote control is enough. You can also manually control the Roomba, but then the joke's gone, because you have to be there.

Night shift:
After the easy programming of cleaning times a night shift was due. He was allowed to to task the living room, the door was able to remain open because I have blocked with the included virtual wall. This is something similar to sunlight for vampires; he simply does not run through the invisible infrared barrier.
The next morning the Roomba was not as expected in its docking station, but was sleeping peacefully under the table. Apparently he has his home base after working hours can not be found. For I have not sufficient, free space on the wall and also still near an electrical outlet. Docking may also be triggered manually, which has not always worked. The living room itself had nice left clean and be dust container was alarmingly full. One feels anyway like a pig before, when one empties the what is quick and easy by the way.

And otherwise?
The time spent vacuuming reduces the Roomba to an unavoidable minimum. Simply pull out the chairs under the table, pick up stuff lying around, blocking the door open by Virtual Wall Roomba set the carrying handle to the room, press the button, and finally do something useful, rather than play with the vacuum cleaner.
The result is impressive. The carpets are clean through the built-in brushes than with our previous vacuum cleaners, and even on smooth floors are hair or lint around. The corners are easily reachable by small rotating brush.
The suction power is compared to a conventional vacuum cleaner of course much lower, but this is like the iRobot through persistence and the rotating brushes loose from.
The working time is automatically adjusted to the room size; if the Roomba finds that everything is clean (it has built-in sensors that allow him), he turns off or looking charging station - if he can find since. The battery is always fully charged at our model after docking in the shortest possible time.
The volume when cleaning is less than in a vacuum but omnipresent.
When Roomba chair or table legs jostle, you can hear the fairly accurate, and a chair will also be happy times pushed a piece.
He can make a door - whether open or closed - you get the feeling that someone knocks.
Namely, as persistent as a vacuum cleaner salesman.
At night, I'll give him the future freely, so I do not think again, I have burglars in the house.

Nix to complain about?
At our lime - the easy abkreided, when stroking it - the Roomba gets white stripes on the black housing.
Why did it have to be this really glossy piano lacquer again?
The moves but the dust magically. But perhaps because of it ...

Conclusion
A great thing that brings a tremendous time saver.
Why there's even want to suck dust?
Highly recommended for lazy pragmatist, not usually for collectors of expensive floor vases and precious furniture, not for fellow man with plaster disorder.

UPDATE UPDATE +++ +++ +++ UPDATE UPDATE
26/09/2012
For over a year the Roomba pushes service in our house.
Except for a change of the HEPA filter, no maintenance was required. I'm very satisfied.

UPDATE UPDATE +++ +++ +++ UPDATE UPDATE
05.11.2013
The Roomba and its sensors - Never Change A Cleaning Team
We bought new carpets for our living room. Overall pretty dark from her tone, like their predecessors, but with bright stripes. But were only a few isolated bright applications on its predecessors.
Today use Roomba has completed with an error 6, and several times in succession. This error is caused by the sensors on the bottom. They usually prevent the valuable helpers to similar blindly into the abyss as stairs crashes. On dark - or as in my case - contrasting carpets can cause Roomba feels constantly threatened and terminates its operation.
One can find many useful tips on how to outwit the sensors, one of which recommends taping with aluminum foil. When Roomba 770 does not work, he noticed the fraud and did not even start.
Another tutorial shows how you can short-circuit the sensors, but this makes the opening of the device and an interference with the electronics required.
In my Roomba it helps mask off the six sensors with a white, somewhat thicker paper. He ignored the strip in the carpet and does its job as before. The adhesive strip may, however, impede the front bumper nor the rotating brush.
However, you should then keep closed the door to the basement, otherwise he throws himself hell-bent down the stairs.

Was absolutely delighted ... Rank: 5/5
August 26
Rich teaching 1 Rank: 4/5
December 5
But merely flat to stop the alarm Rank: 4/5
February 21

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