Bobsweep Intelligent Robot

Submitted by jamesstevenson on Wed, 10/19/2011 - 2:46am

OK, so I got my bobsweep in the mail a few days ago and since I found very few reviews when I was ordering mine, thought to write one myself and also ask you techies out there a question.

Bobsweep is my first robot vacuum. My parents had the roomba for a while and later switched to Neato. Although they were OK in terms of cleaning, I wasn't very impressed with either one since they get stuck sometimes and can't find their way out of tight areas. So I looked for an alternative and when I came across bobsweep's website and browsed it, aside from the multiple features, it made an impression that it is more "intelligent" than other robots. So I ordered one and was pretty happy with its looks and features when I started using it. However, bobsweep is not really that intelligent either and gets stuck almost at often as the other ones. So I am left with a dilemma; it seems like there is no robot out there that would not get stuck at times and yet it is hard to get myself to vacuum manually after experiencing how much easier it is to have a robot do it! Does anybody know a robot to recommend that will not get stuck and does not spend ten minutes figuring out how to exit a tight area? Or will I just have to suck it up and deal with it to get some automatic cleaning?!

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Getting stuck.

Submitted by legion ex machina on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 4:07pm.

Where does it get stuck most often? My Neato gets stuck way more than my Roomba 780. The Mint has the best navigation but it doesn't have that much cleaning power of the two. Try the Karcher robocleaner. It's way taller but it seems to have more sensors and a rubber bumper guard that goes around the robot's perimeter. It does not map like the Mint, Neato, or the Roomba's Lighthouses. But it has a quiet mode, and it cleans itself!. Well the dock just sucks the debris outta the robot's dust bin into its own so instead of cleaning the bot, you gtg clean the dock itself. Try the Roomba 780 or the Mint. I've have the Neato, Mint, and Roomba 780 and the only one that gets stuck is Neato.