Life with it
Owners run it on an automatic schedule and mostly forget about it. It handles daily hardwood and carpet cleaning well enough that some have stopped reaching for a separate mop or handheld vacuum. Obstacle avoidance keeps surprising people in a good way, steering around scattered toys and cords instead of eating them.
The adjustment is mopping: it doesn't get into corners, doesn't reliably mop a second floor even with multi-level mapping enabled, and a few owners describe its floor coverage as inconsistent enough that they check the map after each run. Pet owners with shedding cats report de-tangling the brush every couple of days despite the anti-tangle comb, which becomes a recurring maintenance task rather than a one-time annoyance.
Reliability & repairs
Day-to-day, the unit keeps working through its main jobs (scheduled cleaning, obstacle avoidance, and self-emptying at the dock) without much owner intervention beyond periodic brush de-tangling. The hair-clogging issue shows up as routine maintenance rather than a breakdown for most who mention it.
Longer term, the picture is less good: the sharpest complaints are from owners reporting the unit stopped working entirely around the one-year mark, usually a laser sensor fault, paired with support refusing repair without a kept receipt. The accounts describing hard failures are a small, repeated slice of the total and largely one story, losing the receipt and getting no help, so that is a real risk, but a narrow one.
Parts named in the 8 accounts that describe a failure
- laser5 of 8
- laser (lidar)2 of 8
- water tank/pump1 of 8