Editorial Review:Product Description:Life happens in busy homes, and keeping up with accumulating dirt, dust, pet hair, crumbs, and debris can be a daily challenge. Introducing the iRobot Roomba 560- a member of iRobot’s newest generation of Roomba Vacuuming Robots.
Now there’s a better way to maintain cleaner floors every day. With dramatically improved navigation, cleaning coverage, vacuum pickup, particle filtration, and scheduling capabilities, the Roomba 560 picks up amazing amounts of dirt and debris from your floors with the touch of a button--so you don’t have to.
The Roomba 560 even cleans on schedule when it’s most convenient for you. Use the on-board scheduling system to easily program up to seven days and times per week for Roomba to vacuum--whether you’re at home or on the go. The Roomba 560 also offers the most efficient room-to-room cleaning available using two innovative, new Virtual Wall Lighthouses.
With dramatically improved navigation, cleaning coverage, vacuum pickup, and particle filtration, the Roomba 560 vacuuming robot picks up amazing amounts of dirt and debris with the simple touch of a button. The powerful unit features innovative spinning side brushes that grab dirt and dust from corners and along wall edges, as well as two high-speed, counter-rotating brushes that pick up pet hair, cat litter, food crumbs, and other debris from floors. The vacuum sucks up the debris and deposits it into a large, easy-to-empty bagless dustbin, and its improved fine-filtration system traps dust, pollen, and other allergens inside the unit, reducing infiltration into the living environment.
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Roomba 560 Review
We all like the product at our home. My wife and I run the Roomba daily. Our dog and cat are amused.
How much easier can it get? Is there a robot that dusts?
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Breaks constantly!
We bought the Roomba 560 in January '08. So far (in 7 months), we have had 3 of the internal brushed replaced. The side brush also broke, but we have not been able to get a replacement because they are back ordered (most likely because they break for most people all the time). Then, we had a problem where it wouldn't clean, just spun in a circle and gave us an error message. After being told it was the left wheel module, we waited a month to get the replacement part. Then, I called. Come to find out, they decided we needed a whole new unit, but never contacted us (they had my e-mail). So, in 7 months, many accessories have broken, and the whole unit has now broken! We had to send our whole thing back in and are now waiting for a new unit. Be careful investing in this product. It is often out of commission for us, so does not serve its purpose.
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My Mom loves it
It's a Christmas gift for my Mom and she really loves it. The machine saves a lot of time and very simple for my Mom to operate. Definitely, it is not perfect but I still give 5 stars based on my Mom's satisfaction. Few things I would like to see in the future Roomba models:
- Reduce noise level: I cant sleep if Roomba is operating.
- Side bush should be more robust. One finger of side bush was broken after 1 month use.
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Disappointed
I had high hopes for my Roomba 560, but it failed after 10 days and IRobot's customer service has been very poor. The 560 does a good job of vacuuming when it works, but it started telling me that its brushes needed cleaning when they did not. I called customer care three times before I got through, and after finding that the Roomba gave the same message even with the cleaning brushes removed, the care person said IRobot would send me a new cleaning head module, which I will have to install myself. I was told the new module would arrive in 7-10 days. We are now at 15 days and counting. The jury is definitely still out on this product for me. And a friend bought one on my recommendation. #^#^@&@*^!*!*! I will not be recommending this product anytime soon.
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Makes life a bit easier
I got my Roomba about 7 months ago. I run it every day at 2:00 so I can come home to a clean floor. I found that the lighthouse feature didn't work so well so I just use them for virtual walls (it almost never found its way back to the base using the lighthouses). I have a small house with tile floors so I run it in the main 3 rooms of the house everyday and then manually run it in the back of the house where it is less dirty a couple of times a week. I find it does a good job for the most part. It is not perfect but with three cats and an enormous long haired dog, it has really helped. I even noticed a lot less dust on the furniture. It cannot get everywhere but on the other hand it gets places that are hard for me to get to like under the bed. It doesn't replace a vacuuming with a regular vacuum but it surely keeps everything pretty nice between major cleanings. It requires a bit of attention daily....especially with the amount of hair from my animals. If you don't clean it the brushes get wrapped up with hair and start to bind. Cleaning it really isn't that big of a deal and takes far less time than sweeping up daily.....a couple of minutes and its done. It finds the base about 80% of the time, it gets caught on a couple of things that I cannot help and sometimes it just seems to stop in the middle of the room for no apparent reason. It also will lock itself in a room sometimes, it pushes the door shut. The side brushes do break but irobot sent me some for no charge, I think I am on my third brush. Irobot's customer service is helpful and easy to reach. My only concern is that my little roomba will not lead a terribly long life. I would likely buy another but I would hope that something this pricey would last a while. It does work hard for me every day and cuts down on my daily housekeeping so overall I am happy.
