ILIFE A10 Lidar Robot Vacuum, 2000Pa

I bought this A10 robovac (Rosie) after buying and loving their W400 robomop (Roberta). Roberta is the only mop that actually has separate clean/dirty water tanks so I got it and love it. Since I cannot mop my ceramic floors without vacuuming I got Rosie to make life even easier. If I’d known how much stress these two would have removed from my life I’d have bought them long ago without hesitation. I live alone and not in perfect health. I still work full time which exhausts me. I continually stress at getting my house cleaned up on weekends when I’m usually recuperating from the work week and it’s the last thing I feel like doing. I have 3 dogs who all shed at a different time of year and one likes to shed all year just for spite. So not even 1 week goes by before I see dust doggies rolling and swirling in the hall way or corners when I walk by. I have a lot of floors to vacuum in a house too large for just me. Felt like all I was doing was working and cleaning house. Then came the Robotwins! OMG! My friend called last weekend, asked me what I was doing. I replied, “I’m lying here vacuuming my house!” And I was! Now, sure, any appliance can always use some improve so I’m not going to re engineer this vacuum. But suffice to say I would not hesitate to get another should Rosie meet an untimely demise. However, with all these dogs and hair, I would choose a self emptier if I had a do-over. This little bin fills up quickly. And if I could re engineer one thing, it would be to have Rosie stop and alert me when she’s full. But anyhow, regardless, I just check the bin and empty frequently. There is one gripe I have about Rosie’s app. When I pause her to empty the bin, she acts like her hair changed color suddenly and she forgets everything she just finished doing. So she starts the cleaning process all over again from where she stopped. On the app map, her pathway that she’s just done disappears. That’s my main gripe. Otherwise, she’s a rock star. I can launch her easily from the app, I can tell her to clean specific rooms and I can draw a barrier wall on the map to keep her nose where it doesn’t belong. It’s fascinating to watch her roll up toward my bed, then slow when she detects the dust ruffle in front of her and without touching it, turns and goes away from it. I personally like that because there are wires under there that would get her in big trouble. If you want her to go under your bed, tuck your dust ruffle up out of her way. She seems to have no trouble over rough doorway transitions or over raised floor vent covers. If you want advanced Alexa integration, better keep looking. You can basically tell her to start and stop. That is all. The app is where the magic is. So many options. You can also create schedules. I don’t do that because my dogs would probably disembowel her if I were not home. Right now, if I could add one thing to my wish list between Rosie and Roberta, it would be for a firmware upgrade that would let me visualize Roberta’s mopping path on the existing lidar map that Rosie created. Or either a lidar based mop because Rosie now has me spoiled! I can mop and vacuum every day now if I want to! And I very nearly do! Thank you iLife for giving my life back on the weekends!