from the wsj,…
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/robot-vacuums-double-as-mops-ecovacs-roborock-review-e7b2f47b
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link to read the aritcle:
https://archive.ph/vX72L
I treat mine (I have 2) like a pet and talk to it when it is around
My SHARK I call KRASH
The other one I call DUMMY. It gets stuck in the same spots continually
They are an AWESOME thing to have in your house. Especially with a lot of HWF. Man the dust they pick up in a week! They run SMWF
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I haven’t given our rorborock a name. “Rosie” seems so cliché.
Maybe Rob.
No, it does not. Approximately once per cycle I hear “Main brush jammed. Clean main brush and bearings.”
We’ve had our new one for just a few days. I will say the new one has rubber paddle type things on the roller, and maybe this will happen a bit less.
Ours jammed once when it grabbed a long string on a rug, we should have taken that rug up. It halfway committed suicide once and got stranded near a stair. And today it ran out of power and got stranded. I hope it learns as it goes so this happens less.
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The main reason I have that problem is because of the two dogs I have…esp the golden retriever…leaves gobs of hair all over the place.
These are the rollers that come with the RR8:
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The hair especially gets tangled up on the sides, where it connects to the machine.
Mine are a bit different but not terribly so. Agree that the sides can be a tangled mess. Our dog has short hair but two people here (not me!) have long hair. This is all someone else’s fault, imo.
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These things are a lot more powerfull than you’d think. I’ve seen socks torn to pieces. I am actually becoming a little scurred of them.
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Keep it away from your lottery tickets.
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Usually, the entire brush is full of hair instead of just one band …but the real problem is the mass of hair on both ends. It seems to be the cause of the “main brush jammed” issue
It’s easy enough to resolve, but it does involve me having do more than “forget about cleaning really”
This thread inspired me to give the robots another chance. Best buy had an ECOVACS D10+ in their deal of the day last week and it looked like a good choice for my house, so i bought one. It had pretty good reviews on its mop feature and some negative comments from those with mixed carpet and hard flooring.
I have to say, i am impressed. I have an older roomba that i rarely used since it was loud and required too much babysitting.
The new vac has the app with mapping software, you can select rooms, a dust bin that it automatically empties into. I think the more expensive units include auto water refills where this one is manual.
I ran it yesterday in the kitchen on vacuum+mop with a double pass. It cleaned everything in a very nice grid pattern with pass 1 along the length of the room and pass 2 across it. It didn’t get stuck around the kitchen table, but did seem to go through under the chairs for longer than i thought was necessary. The job took an hour or so for a fairly large kitchen. I was happy with the result. There was one dime sized spot of something sticky that it didn’t get, but that was really it.
Another feature (that I’m sure some would prefer it to not have) is that it has a camera on it and you can send it off on a home patrol to check around the house if you are away. You can also control it manually.
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The 
in me figures China is using these to spy on us.
Probably. I’ll send them all sorts of useless data when i use the vac to chase around the pets and carry the remote from one side of the living room to the other.
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My daughter sent me this video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
…so I decided to call it “A-a-ron”.
(Sequel to video: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw)
For those of you with combo vacuums/mops, how often do you use the mop function? We have a couple robot vacuums for our 2-story house that have been great, but in the meantime we got rid of all our carpet and a robot vacuum/mop would be even better. I’m trying to decide if one robot vacuum/mop downstairs would be OK, carrying it upstairs when it needs to be mopped, or if it would get annoying. Our robot vacuums run close to daily, so I would hate carrying one up and down for that, but for less frequent mopping, it might be OK.
Huh, i run my robot vacuum every few weeks.
We have 2 dogs and it’s easy to hit a button in an app. Before we bought the robot vacuums, we vacuumed whenever we started seeing fur tumbleweeds. 
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I have a two story, no carpet, but no dogs. I only use the robot mop in the kitchen. I usually run it 2x, where each run does the room twice (in a grid).
The entryway and Bathrooms get a steam mop when needed. The rest of the house just doesn’t seem to need mopping very often. Probably depends then where your dogs can access…
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Same story. $1000 down the drain. fluffng dogs.
Now, I bought a roomba vacuum only.
Wife didn’t like the mop anyway as it didn’t get the ground in dirt…rather turned it to “concrete” that settled into the grooves of the cheap laminate.
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It depends a bit on how much of your upstairs needs to be mopped. In my house, it was just the master bathroom.
The reason is that the robot will occasionally need to clean the mop & will want to return to the base to do so.
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