I've owned several Roomba type robots, both actual Roombas and competing brands. None of them have really saved any time or labor. They always get stuck under furniture or tangled on charger cables. They don't work on stairs. And clearing dog hair from the roller is a huge hassle. I fully expect to still be paying a human cleaning service decades from now.

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euroderf a day ago | parent | next [-]

> And clearing dog hair from the roller is a huge hassle.

I'd like to get a robovacuum/vacuubot but I'd assume that cat hair fouls things up just as much as dog hair does.

	▲	sonofhans a day ago \| parent [-]
		Not really. A golden retriever has hair longer than any cat does, and of course large dogs shed much more.

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ajdude 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

> I fully expect to still be paying a human cleaning service decades from now.

I'm curious if a cleaning service wasn't an option, would the Roomba be worth the saved time compared to doing the cleaning yourself?

I also own a Roomba, but I don't have a cleaning service so my options are either do 100% of the cleaning or let the Roomba do its thing and manually take care of the difference.

For me it's just one less room I have to sweep.