iRobot - Roomba s9+

S9+ Roomba also. In theory any D-shaped bot

D-shaped robots are superior in some regards, but in most they are worse. From navigation to main brush pressure, to side brush placement. It's just very difficult to make it work. It makes sense why the round ones won. That's coming from someone who owned a Neato D5 and a Roomba S9+, on black friday I will finally switch to something more sensible, a Dreame Aqua 10 Roller (maybe the Mova Z60, I will see what deal is better I guess).

I have three shorthair cats and live in an apartment that is mostly medium pile carpet. In my experience vacuums that have rollers with combination rubber and bristles do better at combing pet hair out of carpet fibers than ones with all rubber rollers. A lot of reviewers do pet hair tests by scattering small clumps or individual strands of hair on top of carpet and that's not the whole story in real life. The hairs work their way down into the carpet and it takes aggressive agitation and strong suction to get them out. If carpet performance is paramount, get the Dyson Visnav or if you don't mind used, the Roomba S9+. Older Roombas that bounce around randomly and have the dual rollers with a separate rubber and bristle roller are also great at carpet combing. I keep a 690 around just for that reason even though I also have had newer vac and mop combo robots.

Hello, i have s9+ all that years from release. I readed many post about new robots and how it become better and better, but its really much better? Its worth to change or rather keep s9+ as long as it work?

yeah it works but i never was 100% happy about it, thats why i asked this question. Its really feel like completly new generation or just a little upgrade?

Mine is going strong!

S9+ I bought mine used and no problems in the two years that I have had it. I like the D shape and the features. No problems vacuuming my small area rugs.

Yes, I got mine on Black Friday deal as well for 50% off. I would never have bought it otherwise... a massive upgrade over my older trusty iRobot S9+. Speaking of the obstacle avoidance, that actually might push me to another Saros for upstairs in fhe bedroom areas where my kids rooms are, or I might move the Z70 upstairs since it has the arm and have a 10R on my main floor for mopping and vacuuming.

I bought mine in 2020 and it’s still going. Most of any issues I’ve had with it are usually dust accumulation. Simple cleaning usually takes care of it

yeah minus 1 for iRobot and pet hair...I had an S9+ (released before the model u/DuckyDoodleDandy is talking about to be fair) but while it initially was good it very quickly relegated itself to being a brick in my guest room. It did fine on my hard wood floors to be fair, but on a medium pile rug it basically just pushed my dog hair around (Husky and F1 Goldendoodle) that I got so annoyed with it I just stopped using it entirely. It also tangled hair like a motherfucker and it got bad enough that it broke multiple rollers. A newer roller style like the Narwahl, Roborock would likely work far better and is what I am currently looking for. The navigation was also atrocious since its only camera based at that time and got stuck on EVERYTHING. Similarly, looking for something with lidar to help solve that and allow it to run in low light...my S9+ without full lights on looked like a drunk college kid trying to find their way back to the dorms.

Every time I hear through Google Home that my S9+ has gotten stuck and needs help, it tempts me to buy one of the new lidar models.. Then I remember how horrible my Max 705 Combo performs in hardwoods, and it makes me thankful to still have my S9+ for my carpeted upstairs..

Agree completely. I've had the flagships from all the main brands, but none of them remotely clean carpet as well as the S9+. Been using it regularly for about 6 years without a single issue.

Yes. I pretty much only use my Miele canister for the stairs at this point. Most high end robots vacuum well enough on hard floors. On rugs or carpet the Roomba S9+ or Dyson are in a league of their own relative to other bots. They seem to be the only ones that can really get hair/fur/fuzz off of carpet.

Yes, agree. I'm deeply disappointed and frustrated how things are progressing (regressing) in this regard. They can generally do parallel lines well enough, as long as the "intelligent" modes are turned off. But I find they generally require two passes to clean up what my older robots did in one pass. Glass sliding doors, or patterns in the floor, can cause them to swerve and miss areas. The Ecovacs in particular avoided a whole area on the floor because of a shadow cast by my countertop there. The Narwal made a perfect map of my upstairs, but when I directed it to go to only clean my laundry room, it went to every other room first trying to find a back way in, finally it got to the edge of the laundry room, turned around and again went to every other room, then got to the laundry room a 2nd time, and then finally went in to clean it. This repeated every time. I had a Dreame that would get stuck in some sort of virtual box until I moved it out with my foot. My dining table has a round pedestal base. No robot in the last few years will vacuum tightly around it. They all leave about a 1" gap, which is exactly where the crumbs tend to collect. I still keep my Roomba J9+ in service to go clean up after the others once a week. Another thing that foils modern robots is cleaning close around chair legs. I do a test, sprinkling some oatmeal around a chair leg. Modern robots will get about 50%-75% of it, but my old Roombas would consistently get all of it. It may be an unpopular opinion, but the best navigation, edge/corner cleaning, and overall coverage I've ever seen was from my Roomba S9.