[fwdude]

Roombas are crap. The only purpose is to amuse technophiles with the novelty.

[miniTAX]

“Roombas are crap. The only purpose is to amuse technophiles with the novelty.”

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They are crap if used with not potty-trained dogs. But they are not real novelty anymore and I use several of them (from iRobot and Samsung). The one in my workshop does a huge amount of work.
The only complaints I can find that the Roomba avoids dark spots on some carpets and tends to shred the most expensive carpets’ corners. The Samsung behaves way better.

[the OlLine Rebel]

No. They’re actually quite nice. Many years ago a co-worker raves about them to me. Finally got one a few years ago.

But I highly recommend it for regular maintenance cleaning, not major jobs every time. Keeping up with the vacuuming is good this way. Major things should be with a regular vac, though.