roborock Q5+ Robot Vacuum with Self-Empty Dock, Hands-Free Cleaning for up to 7 Weeks, 2700Pa Max Suction, 180mins Max Run-Time, Compatible with Alexa, Perfect for Hard Floors, Carpets, and Pet Hair

It cleans especially well. This means the one disposable dust bag it comes with will fill up quickly so immediately buy dust bin bags-you will need them fast. Be sure you get the RoboRock app to set it up with. Setup is easy and essential using the app. Alexa or Google integration is a breeze. It is fairly quiet on balanced suction mode, and not really so loud on turbo. You MUST manually empty the dust bin in the Q5+ if it fills during cleaning and that is a real possibility if you have a lot of square feet. It will dock due to low battery or being full and upon docking it will empty by itself. However if during its cleaning cycle, it gets full, it will not sense this nor return to dock to empty. You MUST empty the dust bin-easy enough to do using the app. Dust bin contents are sucked into the dust bin back when docked and you manually choose empty dust bin. You have to let it run and do its thing. The best thing: set room mapping up and let it run around to map your floor. Then it will clean. Doing mapping first is easy and fast. You have to save maps of rooms/floors by setting save on-you toggle it to "on" and then you map. You can set up tasks meaning you can have it clean one room then go back to dock to empty and this is a good thing because it most likely will not overfill from one room and you need not manually empty it. Create three or four tasks and with each completed task, it will go back to dock and empty. If you do not do tasks, and you try to clean 1200 square feet, it WILL fill up and you MUST intervene and tell it to go back to dock to empty it. I run it 2x a day for 1200 feet and no matter what I do, it fills up before it is done cleaning. I have no idea where it comes from but the bin gets full about half way through. There is no way to get around this. This device picks up ever-so-fine dust, and dirt-better than with a vacuum. The big clumps of hair if you have dogs...not so much but these are visible and easily picked up after the device has left them behind during its runs. It just cleans and cleans!Let me go back to cleaning. It does this well. I am surprised how much small stuff it picks up. It picks up dog hair, etc. well. It seems to pick up dirt I cannot even see or notice. With a full charge, you may get 1200 square feet; I do with about 15% battery left. If not, it will go back to charge on the dock when it gets to 19% low. My plan: let it work using tasks (you can set a room or floor schedule) and let it charge and by the morning, empty the dust bin by using that option via the app, and let it clean again a floor where you do not have activity or where people are not at home or around (bedrooms for example). I say work it; run it daily. I have a good vac; I vacuumed Wed, and it is Sun and it is shocking to see what it has been picking up in the dust bin. If you have a dog or cat, this is the move. I am not saying it will pick up long hair but the short hair and dander, yes it 100% will. It cleans under the beds (yay!) and under furniture where it fits. It is not an industrial vac. It most likely won't and should not be used to pick up wood chips, etc. around a wood stove, nor should it be used to pick up large particulate matter. It does pick up coins without any noise or damage so that it great if you miss a coin on the carpet or floor. I can use Alexa ("Alexa, tell Roborock to empty the dust bin" or "Alexa, tell Roborock to start cleaning" or "Alexa, tell Roborock to dock") for basic commands. If you have a spill, you will have to experiment to get the unit to clean it up; it looks like if you press the home button on the device, it cleans within a 10-foot radius. It will just try to clean in rows so you will just have to try it out for spot cleaning. It may be a pain to get it to do that. I can't imagine people with pets not having this or one of the Roomba pet hair cleaning units. This is going to save me so much work. I am not getting any younger. I thought "Why deny myself technology?" so I got it on sale. I highly recommend meaning for me it matched my expectations and needs and easily so.One last thing: the roller will clog with wrap-around hair. It is easy to take out and clean BUT you MUST put the roller brush cover on exactly meaning there are four tabs and two go in manually at a bit of an angle and the other side of the roller brush cover has two clips that go back into place when you pinch them. IF you see any of the four tabs, you do not have it in place correctly. This shows up when you try to empty the unit. It will not empty. You will hear it try but it will not because the suction is too low because the roller brush cover is not completely installed/inserted. You may find the unit telling you you are attempting too many empty commands and it will ignore your commands to empty the dust bin if you find you had the roller brush cover on loosely. The way around this is to take out the dust bin and with a flashlight locate the reset hole (use a pin). It is well-hidden. When you find it, put in the button while also holding the home or power button. This resets the device. You have to readd your unit to wifi (not 5 but 2.4) and be sure your phone's wifi for this is on the 2.4 band. Reattach the unit to your 2.4 wifi and you will be good to go. The unit will start recognizing the empty command and with the roller brush cover on correctly (no tabs showing), you will see the unit empty its dust bin. All maps, etc. are saved in the app. Only the unit gets reset. The bags are really easy to change. I filled that "7-week" bag in a week. That is how good the unit is. I have run it 3x a day and I still pick up dirt. I have no idea how or why but I do breathe easier now without any decongestants, and the house is clean! Any vacuum clogs and needs cleaning. This unit is no different. It is maintenance. After a week or so, you get the hang of it.I did not get the combo mop unit because I can do that with another machine. I wanted a dust bin that was 100% for dirt pickup. It works. It works well. I am getting another for the second floor with carpet and with carpet, the unit senses this and goes into turbo mode to clean. For hardwood, it does not have to do that. There are four speeds. Night is quietest. Balanced is good. I like that setting. The wrap-up: run this a couple of times a day (why not?) and pause your cleaning via the app after 30 minutes or so to return it to dock and empty. Or use tasks. No one is going to get 1200 square feet cleaned in one pass without emptying. That is a good thing. This device picks up! For real!

I have had a Roomba i3 for a few years now and it was great for what it is. However it did not self empty so I essentially had to babysit it and empty the bin every 20 minutes. It also had rudimentary nudge-based navigation that was not very accurate. This is obviously not the case with the Roborock. I am genuinely astounded at this thing. It is truly a technological marvel.Best Features:LiDAR Navigation : I was shocked as how well this works. You can literally watch a live feed in the app of the mapping process. It maps the rooms faster than you'd imagine. As soon as it enters a room the map expands to cover almost the entire area, intelligently identifying things it can go under versus solid objects. It also does not just map one time during setup. Is constantly updates and augments the map every time it runs. It also does not just rely on the bump detector to find obstacles. The LiDAR sees it first, and the robot slows down to gently nudge it to better define its position. The paths the robot takes are extremely deliberate and precise. It is amazing to watch it drive around corners and obstacles when heading to a known area. I also like how it will vacuum the perimeter of a room first before doing the center. This ensures that any debris flung into the center of the room by the edge brush is cleaned.Suction: Seems to be very powerful. This cleans a high pile rug we have just as well as our push vacuum. It is also cool that you can set it to automatically adjust suction power based on the surface it detects it is driving on. You can also just set a fixed suction level regardless of surface if you want.Noise: It is a vacuum, so it is a bit noisy but actually significantly quieter than my Roomba. Since it has an auto empty feature, you can and should just run it when no one is home. That way, it essentially never makes any noise.Performance: This robot is pretty speedy. My downstairs is about 900sqft and it can do a full clean in around 90 minutes. The floor is spotless when it finishes.Auto-Emptying: This is really cool. It monitors the dustbin capacity and will determine if it can finish cleaning before emptying or if it needs to make a pit-stop. The vacuum within the dock is very powerful and does a surprisingly good job of completely emptying the dustbin. It is a huge benefit to have it run when no one is home and not worry that it will dock with a full bin waiting to be emptied.Software: Now THIS is where Roborock shines compared to others. You have the ability to edit rooms, add invisible walls, no go zones, etc. You can tell it to vacuum one room, a single area, really anything you can think of. While not necessary, you can watch the robots path live and see exactly where it has cleaned. Its pretty fun to watch lol. Scheduling is seamless and easy, monitoring the life of things like filters and brushes is simple, and the paths taken by the robot are deliberate and precise. The app is very well designed, which I feel brands like Eufy and Roomba don't do as well.Cons:This is a relatively large vacuum, so it sometimes cannot fit or struggles to fit between smaller chair and/or table legs such as a nightstand.Since it mainly relies on LiDAR to determine where to clean, it can sometimes get confused. For example, under most couches there is a layer of fabric that covers the bottom. Over time, this fabric can sag. While the vacuum could easily drive under this sagging fabric, the LiDAR sees it as a solid obstacle and avoids it. You can remedy this by adding some staples to the underside of the couch where the fabric sags.*Hot Take*: This is a Chinese manufactured product headquartered in Beijing, so the data is collects is likely transmitted to China. I honestly don't really care about this, but for people who are concerned with data privacy might want to go with a US based brand like iRobot (Roomba) or Shark.Overall, I am extremely impressed with this vacuum and feel like it delivers more performance than a vacuum of this price range is expected to.