Bissell SpinWave Hard Floor Expert Wet and Dry Robot Vacuum, 3115

I'm comparing this with the Deebot which I returned. The Deebot was easily three times the price and jsut didn't work at all. Some of what I hated about the Deebot; it had a complicated app and you needed to train the bot on the areas to clean. There was a lack of any type of organized pattern when cleaning - it just rolled around in circles and missed huge areas in the single small room that I confined it to. It couldn't figure out how to go home and got stuck on it's own base. The cleaning was totally inadequate - if you clean your floor by lightly dragging a low pile wet rag without any cleaner on it, then the Deebot is for you. It basically smeared the floor with the filth that it picked up. Finally, the Deebot got stuck on literally everything. I named it "slow and stupid" in the app. The Bissell doesn't need training. It moves back and forth in a logical pattern. The spinny cloths are nappy and actually absorb the dirt. You can put cleaning fluid right in the tank. The vacuum is in the front and the wet cleaning follows behind. The vacuum includes a roller brush as well as the side sweepers and the suction is great. I feel like the other robots focus on the robotic features and put zero thought into the cleaning functionality. Bissell's features focus on cleaning first. If you want something functional, get the Bissell. It's much cheaper and works so much better. The app is simple. I use it to start a cleaning cycle and to tell it to go back home. I'm really happy with my Bissell SpinWave.

I bought the vacuum to clean the main level of our house. It does work, but not as expected. Our house, typical of houses built on hills does not lie on a North-South axis, but somewhat skewed to match the contour of the hill. My guess is that, although the manufacturer claims the robot is stabilized by gyroscopes, they actually make considerable use of an internal compass. If it were really a gyroscope it would tend to train itself against a solid surface like a wall and make long rows parallel to the wall. Instead, no matter where it is placed or in which direction, the robot tends to whirl around and take off on a diagonal. Better instructions on initial placement would certainly help, but I suspect that this odd feature may be unavoidable."Bizzie Lizzy," as we call her keeps changing her course to run diagonally across the room instead of parallel to the walls. This makes for excessive wall- and furniture-bumping. She also loses track of where she has been and tends to get caught up in circles in complex rooms with irregular walls. On the other hand there was no problem with getting caught up in draperies or bed skirts. She seems to sense that something is there and makes no effort to fight with them. I watched closely to intervene, if necessary. In the dining room and kitchen she spent a lot of time repeating certain areas while pretty much ignoring other areas. Nevertheless she eventually got to most of it. She certainly did a better job than having your teenager do the vacuuming. I did remove the dining room chairs in the sake of efficiency, which only took a few minutes. I also found that it was better to close the draperies on the sliding glass doors because Bizzy Lizzie kept trying to climb into the track section and would get caught on a tilt (remember, she goes diagonally so she keeps doing the same thing on each trip across the room). I am assuming that I will gain more expertise in learning where I can initially place her so that she will do more broad sweeps first rather than spending a lot of time whirling around in pockets between the larger pieces of furniture.One big complaint I have is that she keeps losing her foam "ears" which help guide her around corners. These are not glued in place, just sort of snapped into a groove. They pop out frequently. Sometimes she runs over them and vacuums them up. I would like to see these more securely attached with some sort of clamp.Not too surprisingly, she does better in smaller rooms with less furniture. The bathrooms, kitchen and hallway were accomplished with ease--though I did find it useful to close the door in the middle of the hallway as she seemed a bit confused with trying to deal with a full 30 feet. A 15 foot section seemed easier. Again, it would be helpful if she did long runs parallel to the walls rather than bumping around with shorter diagonal sweeps.It was particularly useful to have Bizzy Lizzy clean in the pantry, where the dust bunnies tend to collect far back under the deep lower shelves, the robot is short enough to go under the bottom shelves, which can be very difficult to reach otherwise.At this point we do intend to keep her, and see if we can figure out how to overcome her oddities. On her initial cleaning runs she picked up lots of dirt and debris and left each of the rooms that I put her in looking nice. Given her habit of getting tangled up in the hollows between furniture and beeping for help, together with the need to confine her to one smaller space after another I can't imagine even trying to let her run without supervision. There is absolutely no way she could manage to clean several rooms while I am away. I can be in a nearby room doing something else, but the vacuuming would simply never finish if she didn't have someone to move her around. As far as returning to the space where she started, that didn't even happen in my 8 X 16 foot galley kitchen. However, it is still a whole lot easier than doing the vacuuming myself.Update: After trying to use Bizzy Lizzy over the Thanksgiving weekend she is going back. My sons were here and they experimented with me on placement to try to find a way to get her to actually do a whole room without being picked up and put in a new location to start over. Pretty much total fail. I wouldn't mind her wandering around a lot and overdoing some areas if she would just get the whole floor. At one point we left her in a bathroom for 30 minutes. When we opened the door the shred of toilet paper left slightly off the center of the room was still there. Two of four corners were untouched. Too much attention is required of Lizzie to be considered a time saver. Stars are reduced from 3 to 1 because the only thing I really care about is that the floor is eventually cleaned. Didn't happen

This is my first mop and dry robot vac. I do own another dry robot vac (DeBot) that I'm pretty happy with but this thing is WAY FASTER than the Debot. I was excited to see the mop feature and it works really well on our luxury vinyl (wood plank look) floors. It's not a perfect thing - similar to our Debot it gets stuck under the couch - goes up to climb over the bar/legs and gets stuck inside. I'd rather it doesn't try to climb over things as it gets more stuck on area rugs and is very rarely successful when trying to climb. Wish there was a setting - no climb mode! Then it would work better. As far as a dry vac it works a bit better than my less expensive DeBot - picks up dirt as well or better but this thing is much FASTER! Cleans in half the time of the Debot. Speed should be a star criteria! As far as mopping this is my first mop robot vac. The "cartridges" are easy to change - one for dry (like my Debot) to empty the dirt out and one for wet - you add water and a small amount of solution and it has spinning washable pads. Cleans really well. Granted we don't have filthy dirty floors but we do have a small dog and we cook a lot so the machine does very well on lightly dirty floors. Haven't tried to spot cleaning for area cleaning on dirty floors.+Cleans QUICKLY. This thing is fast+Wet cleaning works well+Dry cleaning works well+Wet/dry "cartridges" are easy to change+Dry bin easy to empty/clean+Mop pads are machine washable and it came with 2+Double click to return home works well-Have to manually change "cartridge" between a wet/dry cleaning. Would be nice if it vacuumed then mopped on its own as you need to babysit it after it's done to change it out.-Gets stuck under my couch. I don't want it to climb over things - it gets stuck. Wish there was a way to turn off the "climb" mode. Stay flat on the floor and please don't climb over things - it just gets stuck (on my couch legs) or more stuck into the rug.-Gets stuck on area rugs. Need to pick them up before you vacuum or mop-No mapping. This would solve my issue of it getting stuck under my couch.Haven't downloaded the app yet