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I saw this robot vacuum and wanted to see how if it would be a good replacement for my older Roomba. My first floor is hardwood with some area rugs. We also have a dog.During the initial mapping, the vacuum kept going around in the same two square foot area. After a reset, it mapped out the downstairs quite nicely. I like that I am able to label each area in the app and can select an area to skip. You can even configure how much suction and how many passes you want when your schedule runs. The vacuum increases suction when it goes over a rug. The canister is easy to empty, but there doesn’t appear to be anything to indicate when it is full. The vacuum has trouble handling dog hair on rugs. I am not talking about tons of hair either. What is nice is that dog hair from the floor does not get tangled in the roller. The biggest reason this vacuum isn’t a good replacement for my current one is because there isn’t a spinning brush to capture dirt that is next to the base boards so I had to run my handheld to finish the job. Starting yesterday, the vacuum isn’t able to successfully return to the base for charging. It moves around like a lost puppy and eventually I get an error message telling me recharge failed and to try to move robot to the charging dock. Manually returning it to the dock does not resolve the situation because it just moves away and gets lost again. I wanted to love this vacuum, but I can’t because of the things I listed above.

This is my first experience with a robotic vacuum cleaner. I have never owned or experienced any other robotic vacuum cleaner, so keep that in mind when assessing the value of my review. That said, my general impressions after a few weeks of use are that the UBPet robotic vacuum cleaner brings some useful value to the chore of keeping your carpets and floors free of dust, hair, crumbs and other small debris. The device can for the most part operate without supervision once you've allowed it to map your spaces and as long as you follow certain rules that prevent it from tripping itself up, like keeping things off the floor that could cause it to tangle up or block it or cause it to lose traction or get stuck or blocked while it is running its cleaning tasks. Despite following the rules (some of which are outlined in the user manual, and some which you will inevitably learn on your own over time and over the course of operating the device), successful operation of the device will inevitably require some intervention due to what I am guessing are bugs in the devices computerized operating and mapping algorithms, mechanical design, performance limitations, etc. In other words, regardless of how obstacle free and sterile the environment you provide, you will be spending some time babysitting the robot or trying to make things work that you think should be working and can't understand why they are not working.Some of these challenges for example are directly related to mapping issues. For example, I have a BIG MAP that basically is an etch-a-sketch representation of my home. I managed to map all the rooms independently by finagling the app to keep adding rooms one at a time, but this wasn't an intuitive process, and did not happen automatically. Adding virtual barriers, dividing rooms, merging areas, blocking areas, etc is all relatively easy to accomplish using the phone app, but the user manual seems lacking in the amount of detail that is needed to accomplish certain things. What I mean by this is that the manual doesn't go into great detail about mapping and operation Best Practices. It does offer some troubleshooting tips, but hardly covers all the different situations you will encounter when using a robot vacuum. Those gaps in knowledge need to be filled in by the user trying different approaches to find out what works, and what does not work - and this takes time, supervision of the vacuuming operation, etc. If you enjoy that sort of thing (as I do), then it's a fun process, yet even then, it can be a bit frustrating.One example of this mapping frustration is that even after I had mapped everything out, assigned names and boundaries , merged and divided areas of the map so they better represented the rooms I wanted to identify for my cleaning schedules, etc, I skipped a few days cleaning, and when I started a cleaning task again, the robot/app told me it was obstructed and couldn't get from the charging base to one of the rooms when in fact, there were no obstructions, but maybe because of the way I originally went about letting the robot map things out, and because of subsequent division and merging of areas of the map, something got messed up, and the robot algorithm was no longer able to find a clear route to one of the rooms. This was not a physical obstruction, it was a virtual obstruction in the mapping.Mapping issues aside (and I think all robotic vacuums have their own unique issues), the robot vac is well made, durable materials, good seals, offers easy enough cleaning of debris chamber, on-board buttons to pause/resume the device and tell it to go back to the charging dock, etc etc. It's quite good at overcoming obstacles like cords and other obstructions on the floor. It hasn't tangled on any cords once, but has gotten itself stuck under some furniture that was just tall enough for the robot to get under, but not tall enough all the way through for the robot to not wedge itself into.I like that it has turbo-boost modes that can be configured. The robot detects the conditions and ramps up the vacuum motor so that it is effective depending on the type of flooring. I don't know if it uses a particle sensor to "see" the volume of dust it is picking up or if it uses air pressure to sense the suction of the area, but it seems to do a pretty good job with this power management. It knows to ramp down the motors when it is traversing an area that has already been cleaned or isn't part of the assigned cleaning task, saving battery energy and thus being more efficient with power and time.The choices it makes about how it approaches a cleaning task sometimes don't make sense. For example, if it has been tasked to clean a long hallway, instead of running the length of the hallway, requiring it turn turn around only a few times, it might tackle the job by zig-zagging crossways along the length, turning many, many more times. I'll admit that I am not sure if it did this only during initial mapping in order to get more data points about the area, or if it does this now that it has mapped the areas. I simply haven't observed it carefully enough to be sure - but generally speaking, it seems to take a smart and sensible approach to the tasks it is assigned.Scheduling seems to work. I haven't set up any complex schedules/tasks involving multiple rooms and days of week, for example. I've only set up a schedule consisting of one room at 2pm each day and it seems to come online at the correct time and complete the task successfully over the course of the week. I have a multi-level home, so some of the rooms it cannot reach from where it is stationed (the changing dock), and that requires me to pick it up and into those areas, but the manual doesn't tell you how to approach that problem, so I still don't remember how I've managed to make that happen. I don't remember if I move the robot to the room and then start the task and it recognizes its new location on the map, or whether I start the task while its at the charging dock and wait for it to run into the split-level obstruction and complain to me, at which time I pick it up and put it over the step, into the the elevated room.It does a surprisingly good job at filling its dustbin with everything from hair to largish debris, crumbs, and even very fine particulate matter. It picks up quite a bit of material off of what appears to be a clean floor. I especially like that it can go under the beds and other furniture that I normally can't reach with my Dyson vac without using hoses and adapters.It makes quite a bit of noise, but that's to be expected of any vacuum cleaner worth considering. You can't circumvent the laws of nature. A vacuum will move a lot of air, and that makes noise. It's actually a bit quieter than my Dyson for reference, but also not nearly as powerful. Still, because it is so easy to vacuum more frequently using a robotic vacuum, you end up vacuuming more often, and this does a good job of keeping things clean as a result of more frequent cleanings - especially if you start off with a thorough deep cleaning with a Dyson or whatever, and use the robot to pick up more superficial dust/dirt/hair/particles afterwards.I've included a screenshot of part of one of my maps showing two rooms so that you get an idea what the map looks like. The screenshot shows the path that the robot took during the latest task it was assigned "Area 1" in blue. You can see how in some areas it did not take the most sensible approach, but overall it seems to have done a decent job. The areas outlined in red are virtual walls. You can see the map boundaries are jagged and not so well defined. One would think that a system that uses LIDAR would (could) have a much cleaner map than this. And actually, I think this might be a more well-defined map than it generated initially. The mapping may be refined (detail added) with each successive pass of the robot, but I'm only guessing at this point. This task was completed while I was writing this review. It only snagged on an article of clothing that fell off the bed and required my intervention to un-snag it. It managed to return to the charging base successfully. The "Timeline" screenshot pertains to the blue areas of the map that were just cleaned and shows the start/stop time for the task, and the entanglement event.I haven't made any detailed price comparisons between this product and competitors, but I do realize that this isn't a budget vac - and it doesn't perform like and isn't built like one either. I think it anyone spending this amount of money on something like this is going to be satisfied with the value they get in return.

Works really well. better than expected. It does require your time to setup the unit to work for you. Also, there are some hiddne features in the app. Like, more power to the unit. I had not clue it would suction more if you turned it up. It does require the time to let it doe it's thing, the you can fine tune it and make it work on a schedule. We decided to make it work in the mornings,. we have a lof opet hair so it needs to be on it highest settings, so it is louder. In the end, really glad we got this.

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I was worried about stairs, but this vacuum avoids them like a charm. No more worries about it falling

I love how easy it is to empty the dustbin.

As someone with allergies, this vacuum has been a blessing. It traps all the allergens and keeps my home air clean.