ECOVACS DEEBOT T20 OMNI Robot Vacuum Cleaner 6000Pa, Auto Mop Lifting/Hot Water Mop Washing/Hot Air Mop Drying/Auto-Emptying, 3D Structured Light Obstacle Avoidance, Dual 3D Maps

Wow, wow, wow! Takes a very good product for me to bother to write a review. This is one of those products that begins with reasonably low expectation and blows them out of the door!I really didn't expect this vacuum to be any good or to actually have any impact on my life, but it most certainly has.We work all week, often late, and have a 8 month old daughter who is beginning to crawl and spend lots of time on the floor. We also have a cat that seems to find her way into every room no matter what. Finding time to hoover and do all of the cleaning on an evening or at the weekend was tough. It sounds pathetic, but hoovering is one of those mundane annoying jobs that no one wants to do after a long week of work. Don't get me wrong, you will still use your plug in vacuum to hoover the stairs, sofas or anything up high. Until these vacuums develop arms then you can't expect to get rid of your upright anytime in the near future.This vacuum has superb suction, battery and functionality. I expected this to maybe pick up the occasional crumb or small bits of dirt but found that it picks up much, much more than that. All of the car fur is gone, all of the litter that the cat manages to empty out on to the laminate floor is gone. Crumbs, hairs, paper, bits and bobs - all gone. Carpet, laminate and tiles are all easily vacuumed.I did a deep hoover the day before receiving this and didn't expect the robot to find much remaining dirt. I was wrong! The compartment was pretty full of bits and dust that my plug in vacuum evidently missed. Either that or you don't quite realise how much mess and dust can appear in one day. And no one wants to get the big hoover out every day! Surely! With Deebot you can set a schedule for however many times you want it to vacuum a week and forget about it. You can hoover several times a day with this if you really wanted. Sit back and relax and let Deebot take care of it.Spend more time in your life doing good things, being with family and friends, rather than hours hoovering every week.Battery is brilliant - I don't even use half on my 3 bed house. That's up and downstairs. Deebot always finds its way back to the charger too.General maintenence of the robot is easy and quick too and emptying the mess is simple. Easy to connect to WiFi and Alexa. To be honest I don't have anything bad to say about this. It could do with room mapping but for the price I wouldn't expect that at all. The app is good too and the remote is easy to use.If you are cautious about making the move to a robot vacuum, give this a go. My thinking was that "if its no good, I'll send it back". No need. You will definitely not be sending this back.Take the punt and enjoy the extra free time you have thanks to Deebot.

After years of contemplating a robot vacuum cleaner, I took the plunge, and I'm so glad I did.This is a more basic robotic vacuum as far as they go, it used random motion instead of mapping out your home, and it's fairly basic - but that might not matter depending on your home. I have a 1 bedroom flat, and this is absolutely ideal. No stairs to worry about, and small enough that an hour or so bumbling around covers probably 98% of the floor every single day when I'm at work. If you have a bigger home, then you might benefit from something more methodical, but for smaller homes there really is no need.The cleaning is great - I have short pile carpets throughout and despite deep cleaning a few days before I ordered the deebot, it's found a staggering amount of dust - and it gets into places that I could never get with the dyson. Getting home every day to noticeably spotless floors is brilliant.The first few days brought a slight learning curve. I've had to tuck a couple of small wires out the way, but that's not a big issue. Day one it got stuck when it found a sock in my bedroom, and today whilst cleaning behind the bathroom door, it managed to push the door closed and get trapped in the bathroom - but honestly, it doesn't matter. At this price, and at this more basic end of the automatic vacuums, I'm not expecting something that is flawless every single day - because it's vacuuming much more frequently than I would do, so I'm happy to accept the odd snag as part of the value proposition. The side effect of this is I now spend a few minutes every morning tidying up any bits around the place, and my flat has never been tidier or cleaner.It does a great job at the edges of the room, the upright dyson can only match it if you go round with the edging tool, so it's fairly thorough.Alexa integration works, but was a pain to get working initially - the Alexa app kept on not discovering it - but in all honesty again this is a bit of a non issue. Setup a daily schedule, and just leave it to do what it does. If you are in the house all day, manually setting it going at a time that suits you might be better, but I'm out the flat all day so the schedule in the app works just fine.This won't suit every home, but for a small, tidy home with few obstacles it's absolutely ideal, and I can't see how a more expensive one could be much better in practice. The most important thing is it actually does a good overall job - it's not a gimmick.