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iRobot Combo Review

Combo is the first mop by iRobot and vacuum robot. It's also the most attractive. Its aluminum top piece brushed and irobot roomba deals logo are more elegant than the blaring designs of competitors.

You can use the iRobot Home app to set up and guide your robot. The app collects data on usage and maps of your house, including furniture and obstacles. Maps and image data are only shared with iRobot if you opt-in.

It's not a mop

The Combo irobot, a very intelligent mopping robot, takes all the capabilities of the excellent best rated roomba vacuum J7+ and adds a reservoir of water onboard, a small pad for mopping and a robotic arm that can raise and lower the pad. It can accomplish a good amount of work in just 111 minutes, before it is power-depleted and returns to its base station to recharge.

The combo model also features the iRobot home app, so you can start and stop cleaning runs. It's also a stylish robot, sporting matte black plastic that doesn't show dust or fingerprints and an aluminum top piece that is brushed with a small iRobot logo.

It's a great vacuum cleaner and has no trouble crossing over large areas of carpet or transition strips between flooring surfaces. It's also able to pick up fine dust that other robotic vacuums don't. It's not very good in mowing. It can't get rid of dried milk stains unless you send it at least four or five times.

IRobot's own Braava Jet M6 mopping robot, which is available as combination with the J7 Plus frequently for less than the combo Combo and performs much better in this and other difficult jobs. It can also clean up wine and ketchup spills, but I would not recommend sending it after any liquids that contain a large amount of sugar.

It's a vacuum

It's also one of the better-looking robot vacuums, with a smooth top piece that doesn't show dust or fingerprints as easily as other models. The small water tank and dustbin of this robot vacuum are easy to open, but they are not the largest. The Combo J7+ also has the same smarts you'd expect from iRobot with features like map and obstacle avoidance mapping that works reliably and quickly. But it's the mopping arm that makes this model stand out in its class. It keeps the mop pad tucked away on top of the vacuum, but if it recognizes an area that requires mopping, it lowers the pad underneath and behind the robot. This is a major upgrade over other robot vacuums which require you to take out the mop pads for hard floors or carpets manually. You can also turn off the entire unit to mop.

It's a charging station

When you're ready to charge your Combo irobot roomba deals, just place it on the charging station and align its metal contacts with the ones on the base. The charging station works well and is easy to put in. During my tests it took just a few minutes to charge and then make a noise when it was completed. When the Combo irobot is charged, you can start mapping runs in the app to help it understand your home. You can also mark certain objects like lamp cords, as permanent avoidances within the app. You can also connect Alexa or Google Assistant to your robot to allow commands with your voice to navigate around the house.

It's a smart device

Combo irobots depend on the acoustic sensors on board and onboard cameras to identify the kind of floor they are cleaning, and also the objects in your home. This information is paired with images from the robot's onboard camera and maps of your home to create an individual plan to clean every room. This allows it to be smart enough to keep your sofa, lamp cords and other objects you want to keep. As with all wifi Connected Vacuum devices, there are concerns over the privacy of these data. However, iRobot affirms that it will never sell customer information and all images are taken with customers' permission.