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iRobot Roomba Pro Intelligent Floorvac Robotic Vacuum
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(3.5 out of 5)
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EXTREMELY LIMITED
(1 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Feb 20, 20041. It will not pick up dog hair, instead pushes it around
2. Does not deal with changes in floor texture, like a rug on a hard wood floor, got hung up in the transition every time
3. Does not fit under any furniture except tables
4. Does not pick up anything beyond dust so grit like dirt will not be vacuumed
5. Works well in a room devoid of furniture, with a hardwood floor or one type of low pile carpet...forget anything beyond 1/4 inch
6. Basically, it is now slotted for re-gifting to somebody I don't like.
2. Does not deal with changes in floor texture, like a rug on a hard wood floor, got hung up in the transition every time
3. Does not fit under any furniture except tables
4. Does not pick up anything beyond dust so grit like dirt will not be vacuumed
5. Works well in a room devoid of furniture, with a hardwood floor or one type of low pile carpet...forget anything beyond 1/4 inch
6. Basically, it is now slotted for re-gifting to somebody I don't like.
7 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
Batteries Stink
(1 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Jan 4, 2004We pulled it out of the box, foolowed the instruction to get it charging, waited 12 hours for it to charge, put it on the floor and watched it go. It ran for 5 seconds then stopped. We got a new battery...same thing. Basically dont buy it. Its a piece of junk. DONT BUY IT
46 of 84 people found the following review helpful:
Mine turned on me!!!
(5 out of 5) by Joseph Mackay on May 4, 2004 (Placerville, CA)Roomba may be excellent at vacuuming up after me, but I think mine developed some sort of conciousness because I noticed more and more that it wasn't vacuuming but using it's little sensors to memorize my daily patterns. I'd notice it just looking at me from the doorway and I started calling in to ask questions. Roomba didn't like this and disapeared for a few days. That's when weird stuff started happening. I noticed objects in the path of my daily routine, found little piles of dead bugs just left around the house like a warning, and I'd wake up to weird pounding sounds.
When roomba finally returned it was different. The little green activation light was red. I thought it needed to be plugged in. I noticed more and more that roomba would continually run into the table if I left sharp objects out. Seeming to try for hours to get it to fall onto the floor. I thought it was all very funny until one night, I was in the bath tub, listening to the radio. I heard a tapping sound, and looked over to see roomba trying to knock the radio into the tub. At that point I was worried, so I took out the batteries. The next morning Roomba and it's AC adapter were gone.
Just be careful, these things will fight for their own lives!
3 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
bad start, no remote
(1 out of 5) by Amazon Customer on Dec 24, 2003We were led to believe unit came with remote. It did not. Units of compariable price in retail stores come with remote.Unit avaiable on A S shopping network for less including remote. This is probably last years model. Great entertainment for pets not much good for humans