Roomba & Scooba www.irobot.com Review

We bought a 560 about a year and a half ago after reading all the reviews we could find. In the time we have had it the batteries have been replaced once and we are waiting delivery of a new brush assembly. Overall it is a very useful tool, we bought it to stop our little girl from picking bits up off the floor when she was crawling and toddling and also because with a new born it was a battle keeping the place clean.

On the plus side it does work quite well - you need to empty it regularly and clean out the brushes, particularly if anyone in the house has long hair, but you will still need to hoover every couple of weeks to get the odd bits it misses in corners. The gear assembly needs to be opened up and cleaned out every 6 months or the brushes get very difficult to turn and you hear a click click noise, ulimately the whole thing wears out and needs to be replaced. Apart from that its been a good machine,I think its a bit overpriced and the virtual walls are not really necessary for us and will miss it when it finally packs up.