Product Description

As a member of our latest generation of home robots, the iRobot Roomba 530 Vacuum Cleaning Robot features iRobot's newest innovations for dramatically improved performance, reliability and durability. It systematically cleans 3-4 rooms on a single charge, gets into hard-to-reach areas like wall edges and beneath furniture, avoids stairs and other drop offs and automatically adjusts from carpets to hard floors and back again. Two Virtual Walls® tell Roomba where to clean by restricting off-limit areas. Roomba returns to its self-charging Home Base to dock and recharge between cleaning cycles so it's always ready to clean. NEW FEATURES A solid heavy duty design featuring modular components for enhanced durability and easy servicing Anti tangle technology so Roomba can extract itself from tassels and cord tangles Light touch intelligent sensing system that can detect when Roomba is approaching a wall or obstacle and automatically slow the robot down for a gentler impact and quieter operation One button activation, simply press clean and go A built in voice tutorial for new users that demonstrates Roombas features right out of the box A new mobility platform that allows Roomba to travel on thicker carpets and transition easily between different floor surfaces which include wood, carpets, tiles and rugs New redesigned dustbin holds significantly more debris Roomba 530 includes all of these features and cleans up to three standard rooms before returning to its Home base to recharge!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #22138 in Consumer Electronics
• Brand: iRobot
• Model: 530

Features

• Powerful vacuum and rotating brushes
• Automatically adjusts from carpets to hard floors
• Knows where to clean and where not to
• Returns to Home Base
• Cleans under and around furniture, corners, along walls

Customer Reviews

Roomba-licious
Okay, so the Roomba was designed to vacuum whilst you are out at work or off doing more interesting things. It fails at this - there is no way you'll want to be out of the house when this little beauty is doing its thang! It's far too much fun watching little "roombie" toddle about, working its way around your furniture and belongings and then wandering off into the next room. I think I would have paid £200 for that alone... however, the bonus prize is that Roomba is also a workaholic. As I type he's just taken himself off into the bathroom to clean in there (good luck to him!).

If you're thinking of buying a Roomba you probably have some questions and I'm guessing they're similar to the questions I had:

1) Does it really vacuum?
- The short answer is yes, it really does. Perhaps if you're the sort of person who regularly throws dirt about your home then this might not be for you - but for the rest of us who just have the normal everyday kind of stuff to vacuum up then it's perfect. The suction might not be as great as with some of the heavy duty manual vacuums but the fact that Roomba goes over the same spot a few times in its journey means that so far it has cleaned everything I have asked it to.

2) How thorough is the cleaning?
- I'd say more thorough than you are I ever achieve with a manual vacuum. I've watched Roomba for quite some time and it uses a combination of diving across to the other side of the room, circular motions and following the edge of the room. So far I haven't noticed it missing anywhere. My flat is in 2 halves, joined by a long corridor. I had thought this would confuse Roomba and I'd probably have to do one half one day then move it to the other half manually. No siree - Roomba works its way back and forth without any trouble whatsoever.

3) Does it get stuck?
- Roomba really knows how to get itself out of a jam! I have a lot of furniture in my flat and Roomba has worked its way in and out of all of it. In particular to get under my dining table and chairs Roomba only really has one or two routes (because of the way I have anything positioned) - every time it's gone under there it has found its way back out again with very little problem.

4) What about cables and other things lying about?
- Every review I read prior to buying Roomba said I would need to move these out of the way. They were all wrong. Yes, cables are a tad confusing for Roomba and sometimes it takes a few seconds to work them out, but every time it has come across one it has managed to climb over it or get itself untangled again in a few seconds, without any intervention from me.

5) Does it damage furniture or knock things over?
- Nope. I see no damage to any of my furniture and despite watching Roomba hurtle into my floor-standing plant pots several times I've yet to see it knock any of them over.

Honestly, Roomba is great. I shall never vacuum again!

Update: a year on and I love Roomba so very much I feel the need to provide a quick update on how it's holding up. A while back my Roomba did develop a fault and the brushes stopped rotating underneath. However, I simply cannot praise iRobot enough and cannot think of a better experience with any other business: I spoke to the most friendly lady who arranged for someone to come and pick Roomba up from work, they had him for about a week and returned him fully working back to my work place at absolutely no cost to me. Sounds simple doesn't it? Shame so many other businesses cannot seem to manage this easy process. Anyway, that was many many months ago and since then Roomba has been on his best behaviour. He hoovers every other day or so and continues to do so beautifully. My floor has never looked so consistently clean and as a result, I now only have to empty Roomba once a week or so. He shows no sign of wear or tear and all my furniture is in one piece. Once in every ten runs or so he gets himself caught somewhere (shuts the door behind him when going into the bedroom, occasionally finds a pair of tights lying around and tries to tidy them up, does have a habit of getting tangled on very thin wires like phone charger wires if I have forgotten to pick them up) but he is so gentle that I have never had him cause any damage to himself or anything else - not even the tights! - when he does so; he just waits patiently for me to find him and help him on his way.

In fact, if there were a fire tonight it would be Roomba I would grab as I fled. My only regret is not arranging some kind of commission with iRobot as several friends/family members have since got Roombies of their own as they were so impressed with mine.

you have to get one its brilliant
Im now the proud owner of a roomba, and its brilliant.
I wasnt too pleased when my husband turned up with it for a 25th anniversary present !!
But now am in love with my roomba.
Seriously - we have a larger than average downstairs area in our house, with quiet a confusing room layout, I was sure i would find roomba laying around dead at some time or other, it tells you in the instructions that it will find its way back to its charging station, i didnt believe it - But it really does. ( wish the kids shoes could do that too!)

Cleaning : with 3 kids, two cats, hubby and me we get quiet a bit of dust and muck through the house each day, I just put roomba to work when i go on the school run and its all clean when i get home, One side effect is that my 3 girls no longer drop jewellry or hairbands on the floor as they know roomba will eat it! no complaints there.

Roomba trundles around, so far its never got stuck or had problems with wires etc. it manages the door bars between rooms easily and even the slight change in floor level from kitchen to hall is no problem.

The Kids love it and still havent tired of following it around, so you could add amusement levels to its list of functions.
The cats hate it - hubby thinks thats a good thing!

The only complaint I have is that i keep leaving the ironing out when i go to school and when i get home its still there!

This gadget really is worth the money - although any husbands reading this. Please please please do get something pretty and gorgeous or tickets to somewhere with a nice beach for you wives present.
You can hide the proper present in the box with roomba if you like a laugh but want to live.
( im still contemplating the ultimate revenge on hubby - any suggestions?)

Roaming Roomba.
Its great...
Myself and my Wife were very surprised at how well the robot works and cleans. Contary to the last review we have had no problems with the robot docking on laminate, and it has so far never failed to dock even after cleaning 3 seperate rooms.
We set "Robbie" to clean as we leave for work, and come home to clean rooms upstairs or down.
We are currently thinking of buying another one so we have a dedicated machine for each floor.