ECOVACS Deebot T8 AIVI Robot Vacuum Cleaner For Floors,Carpet, Vacumming and Mopping in One-Go, Laser Mapping, Smart AI Object Recognition, On-Demand Live Video, Custom Clean, 3+ Hours of Runtime

We finally got into the Robot Vacuum market and Picked this model due to general reviews. After a couple of days of working with the device, I'm going with an initial rating of 5 stars. It arrived earlier than promised, it was packaged extremely well. Instructions were well written and everything functioned as stated.Assembly out of the box is quick. Pull off the protective films, pop in two brushes, check that all packing is removed, plug in the wall charger, and set the device onto the charger. Add the App to your phone, and go from there.Start to finish was about two hours for us, but over an hour was a glitch with iPhone, not the software. Once we got the iPhone set up properly, the setup took under five minutes.We allowed the device to charge for maybe four hours, then used the app to send it on a random clean. The first two times we tried, something seemed to glitch between the app and the device, but when we tried a fresh load of the app and a restart, the device slowly mapped the entire house. It marked a noted 181 obstacles (cords, sheets or blankets lying down on the floor from the bed, etc.) and showed where these were on a 'map' of your home. You have the option of clearing the obstacles and letting it run again, or closing the task. It vacuumed better than expected. The tank was disgustingly full.We erased the initial map it made and started fresh on day two, just to set the area we wanted the device to vacuum. We closed the doors to rooms we did not want on it's 'map'. On Day two its performance was again extremely good to perfect. Even after an initial vacuuming by ourselves with a high quality vac, this device filled its tank again with dust and dog hair. I can see daily vacuuming with this device will improve the dust levels in our house.Its now set to vacuum daily starting at 11:30, which is the time our dog likes to sleep. (he does not approve of the vacuum). . It's first tie out was on the minute, and it took a little over 80 minutes to vacuum all the areas we wanted cleaned. The device froze up once -- I had my recliner up and it went under the foot of the recliner, and, I hate say, the dust sensor was overwhelmed. I had to wipe the dust off , but once I did, the device finished its circuit and parked to charge.I wish I had bought this a long time ago.

We've only had this unit for a couple of weeks, but so far it's been great (knock on wood).We bought this as a replacement for our previous Roborock S6 Max V. Feel free to look up my review, or any of the many one star reviews of that product and you'll understand why you should stay away from that brand entirely. They have a know defect with that model that the BRAND REFUSES TO HONOR IN THEIR WARRANTY. Consider yourself warned.So back to the DEEBOT. So far we are very pleased. It mapped the whole house perfectly on it's first run. It does our 1,800 square foot, 3 bedroom, 2 bath home in about 80 minutes. It avoids obstacles beautifully thanks the forward facing camera/Lidar mapping combo. And unlike any of the previous models we've tried thus far (the afformentioned Roborock and also an Irobot Roomba 7550) it hasn't struggled with any of the small bathroom rugs, or door/threshold rugs. It's also the quietest one of the three so far, and still does a great job cleaning. My only knock so far is that it will leave some fine pet hairs on one of our area rugs, but honestly I'm the only one in the house that notices. I think being able to tell the machine to make extra passes on an area when it's doing it's full clean may remedy that, so maybe that is a feature the software designers can add in? When it maps, it actually identifies the differences between hardwood and carpet/area rugs on the map with little diagonal lines on the carpets/rugs, so highlighting an area rug would be easy enough, then simply instruct the robot to make 1 or two extra passes on a highlighted area and I think the pet hair would be completed removed. Again, it is minimal and most might not even notice it. My wife says I'm borderline OCD, so take that into consideration :) It also has a mopping feature, but we haven't used it yet so I can't comment on that.There is also an optional self emptying bin which I may give a try here soon. If I do buy it, I'll come back and update this review.So overall we are very pleased with the unit. If you're looking for a robot vacuum I would highly recommend it. About a week after I purchased this one from Amazon, I saw the exact same model at my local Best Buy on the shelf for pretty much the same price, so you can go check one out there if you prefer to buy local.