Nine Things That Your Parent Teach You About Combo Irobot

iRobot Combo Review

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

The irobot alexa Home application is used to guide and configure your robot. The app collects usage data and maps of your home, which include obstacles and furniture. Maps and image data are only shared with iRobot in the event that you choose to opt-in.

It's not a mop

The Combo irobot, a very intelligent mopping robot, takes all the power of the fantastic Roomba J7+ and adds a water reservoir onboard as well as mopping pads and a robot arm that can raise and lower the pad. It can accomplish a lot of work in the 111 minutes it takes before running out of juice, and then automatically returning to its base station for recharge.

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

It does a great job of vacuuming and has no problem traversing large area rugs and transition strips between flooring surfaces. It's even able to capture fine dust that many robotic vacuums don't. It's not very good in mowing. It's not able to remove dried milk stains, unless you've sent it four or five times.

irobot deals's specialized Braava jet M6 mopping robotic cleaner, often offered in a bundle with the J7 Plus for less than the combo Combo is a better job at this and other difficult jobs. It can even remove ketchup and wine spills, but I would not recommend it following any liquids that have a high amount of sugar.

It's an air vacuum

It's among the most attractive robot vacuums. The top piece is smooth and doesn't display dirt or fingerprints as easily as other models. The small dustbin and water tank of this vacuum are simple to open, but they are not the biggest. The Combo J7+ comes with all the smarts you'd expect from irobot robot. It has maps and obstacle avoidance maps that operate efficiently and quickly. But it's the mopping arm that makes this model stand out in its category. It keeps the mop pad tucked behind the vacuum, but if it recognizes a surface that needs mopping, it lowers the pad beneath and behind the robot. This is a major upgrade over other robot vacuums which require you to remove the mop pads for hard floors or carpets manually. You can even switch off the entire unit for mopping.

It's an electric charging station

Place your Combo irobot on the changing station, and then align the metal contacts on the base. The charging station functions well and is simple to set up. In my testing it took about a couple of minutes for the robot to begin charging and then make a sound when it was completed. After the Combo irobot is charged, you can start an exploration run within the app to help it understand your home. The app allows you to mark certain objects as permanent avoidances, such as lamp cords. You can also connect your robot to Alexa or Google Assistant, so you can use voice commands to direct it around the house.

It's a smart device

Combo irobots make use of acoustic as well as onboard sensors to understand the kind of floor it's stepping on and the furniture in your home. This information is combined with images taken by the robot's onboard camera as well as maps of your home to create an individualized plan for cleaning each room. It's intelligent enough to keep your couch, lamp cords, and other objects that you want to preserve. Of course, as with any connected device, there are concerns about the privacy of this data. iRobot, however, says that it will not sell any customer information and no images are captured without the consent of the customers.